Pro League of Legends player banned for anti-Semitism

This is not news. LoL will ban you for calling someone a noob! no joke! they even have a swear filter, but if you swear too much, BAN! and now people are getting banned for the in game items they purchase.if your not wearing the same items everyother same char has your a troll. Riot needs to grow a pair . I hope this game fails,gets sued, and is gone forever. PATHETIC!

I read the headline and thought they had found Mel Gibson playing this game...

@DaneGamer @xXxxNemesisxxXx @Legend002

lol tru that but I wouldn't call them nerds on this end though. They get paid to know everything there is about LoL. If I was getting paid to play a game professionally, trust me, I would know everything there is to know about that game.

well if this is the case how about banning half the COD community?

You have to be a real A-hole to get fired from playing a video game.

"all you white guys smell like bologna"

-Marlon Wayans, Mo Money

What's sad is that it took 1000 reports over a year for them to do something that should have happened FAR sooner.

I'm not sure these here guys understand the concept of PROFESSIONAL. If you're making a damned living playing a game, people expect you not to make it unplayable for others. Hopefully these guys learn something before the get banned from future MOBA games.

@ArabrockermanX Hey here's a newsflash for ya...racial slurs ARE actual racism! I've had racial slurs thrown at me in real life, and I had the jerks arrested for harassment. I don't know what happened to them since but I hope their run-in with the police helped them grow up. I talk trash from time to time, I'm no saint. However if you can't find a way to keep it good-natured and not go to such low depths as racism, sexism, or any -ism you are a sleazeball, pure and simple.

It's one thing to be a jerk or even spew out hate, but to be among the worst 0.01 of all EU players means you are a complete d@#k!

Even if it's not offensive, it's still unsportsmanlike.

@DarthLod

You really shoudn't be equating facism with mere swear words.

It's now up to Anonymous to hack his account and publish his personal details - or are they too in league with these moronic jew-baiters?

@ArabrockermanX Funny thing...most people don't use racial slurs in real life. People are often civil.

Because chances are, people that uses racial slurs often have black eyes to match.

@ArabrockermanX Perhaps those using racial slurs or are apologists to those using such slurs should "grow the **** up".

"Pro" Nerds being racist behind a screen. Move on folks.

Goes to show that racism and prejudice is a worldwide phenomenon. We still have some work to do to eradicate this scourge from human society.

@DarthLod Because calling someone a racial slur is worse. Racial hatred has no place here.

Harassment of any sort is a part of the game. L2P and quit crying.

And then it is settled. LoL is for weak casual children and HoN is for pros.

Something about playing a MOBA that makes people so angry, its not like he cant make another account or anything...since they are free....

@DarthLod Can't tell if troll...

Remove anti-semitism from the title. You already mentioned racism. Anti-semitism isn't any more special or bad than any other form of racism.

Those Syrians and Jordanians (who are the actual semites) are probably not going to care, while the Jews (the majority of whom are not semites) might just overreact again to something that's not there.

gamespot community is way worse

@Tripwolf lol no, there are way more assholes on xbox live

@Suikogaiden u jelly?

Will every banned player of this game be reported as news now? No hate over professional gaming, or the game itself, but it's getting old to see that some random person no-one ever heard of got banned from a game instead of actual updates of upcoming games. Heck, why is the hardware section so abandoned? There are some posts about some peripherals you'll never have the money to buy, but what about the benchmarking of the new hardware? That could be really useful for gamers. Yes there are many websites that already do that, but when Gamespot used to be more frequent about it, it was really good as it simplified things a lot instead of having to research those huge articles. Just an idea :/

Very nice, if you want to call yourself a "profesional" then act like one.

My question is, with 1000 reports........why the heck was the ban not sooner?

I wish more game companys would do this. The trolling and disrespect is far too rampant.

Awesome, now only 1 million more bans and LoL might be slightly tolerable.

This is great that Riot are doing this...BUT

...isn't this too little too late?

I mean, I think it's now generally well known that the LoL community is by far the worst gaming community out there, in terms of manners, rudeness, racism, swearing, lack of respect etc.

We hear things about League (and others MMOPvPs) becoming an eSport, trying to rival those to real sports. This will never happen until they get their standards in order. If a professional sports players does something unacceptable ONCE, they'll get action taken against them.

And yet, it took at least 1000 reports from players; "Abusagr was reported more than 1,000 times during a 375-game period (February-April 2012)" (this is only a 3 month period, so guessing he had been playing for a year or two, THOUSANDS of reports on these players must have been filed) for Riot to finally decide to permaban them?

This is NOT good enough. On the surface it might seem like a positive and action taking report, but with standards like this, it's no wonder people laugh when they try to compare eSports to real life ones.

It's about time that people started being held accountable for racism, prejudice and immaturity. Kudos to Riot