Riot Games Lead Game Designer of Social Systems Jeffrey Lin indicated that players who have received certain types of disciplinary measures this year will not get their ranked rewards: “We are still working on the details for the 2015 Season, but the current plan is that players who have been Chat Restricted, Ranked Restricted or Game Banned during the 2015 Season will not receive Season Rewards in Ranked.”
To put it mildly, this announcement has not gone over well with the League of Legends community. On Reddit, there is a thread with over 3,500 upvotes as of the time of this writing with players saying that this is too heavy-handed, is being announced midway through the season, is a punishment on top of a punishment, and doesn’t take into account the automated disciplinary system that LoL boasts.
