Riot Introduces New Gauntlet for Players with Inappropriate Usernames

League of Legends is known for a lot of things, and about 80% of those things are the new swear words invented by disgruntled midlaners when their jungler doesn’t gank often enough. Indeed, League of Legends is a hostile place, where players are every bit as likely to disembowel their own team with words as they are to literally disembowel the enemy team the way they’re supposed to. And while developer Riot Games has been making some effort to remedy that, it… hasn’t been working. Really.

But you only fail when you give up, and Riot is far from giving up--and have recently debuted a new tactic they hope will sheathe at least one of the weapons ragers like to use, inappropriate usernames. If you get enough reports for having an inappropriate username, you don’t just get a new one assigned by Riot Games--you now have to take the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (as pointed out by Motherboard), play 50 games of League of Legends so Riot can can carefully follow your play patterns and behavior, then answer another survey--and once you complete all those steps, you can officially pick a new, appropriate username.

It’s quite an ordeal for playing under the moniker of ‘sh1tsh@ck’.

Ultimately, it’s making players upset--ironically--and accusations that Riot are data-mining players brains and forcing them to endure huge ordeals for small grievances are surfacing. And while I will happily side with Riot in most cases, as any good, decent gamer has nothing to fear from these kind of things… why usernames? Make the ragers and trolls do this gigantic ordeal, why make the people with potentially douchey names do all this crap?

Perhaps they’re trying to test to correlation between ‘bad’ usernames and bad players. There are worse plans, but… if that’s the case there are probably better ways to do that.