The alpha client causing more problems
to whomever it may concern,
The alpha client, my number one issue with the client besides never using it is the lag. Can you imagine being last pick in a draft game mode even in ranked and then not given enough time to choose your champion, masteries or runes. This is constantly a struggle for me in the alpha client and is the soul reason I gave it up altogether. It honestly sucks running another client in the background making my game speed suffer. But it's better than screwing up my runes and masteries in every ranked game I play. Basically if I see that I have the opportunity to choose a champion in lane that has a better effectiveness against the enemy's chosen champion, I would like to swap to that champ. However, when it take about 5 seconds for the client to respond to your choice after typing the champion at the top right, then 5 more seconds to register your selection you possibly have around 15 more seconds of horrible, horrible lag while you struggle to search for your runes and masteries, with no time to check making sure that the ones you've chosen were the correct match for the champion you selected.
At the same time, I started playing league before the alpha client so I am a little biassed. I love the way the old client worked everything I needed was easily accessible and was less confusing. No flashy champion selection models, everything was right to left, even my rune pages were simple to set up and organize. With the new client i'm just a mess I prefer playing the game to messing around in client and trying to learn where to find everything again.
I hope you take some of these things i've mentioned into consideration when you read this Riot. If I am being honest here the real reason I found time to write you this lovely message was after getting so many issues with your game I had to finally say "I have to redownload the game." I literally felt like there was something wrong with the download of the game. After playing 5 or more games in a row and getting lagged out so hard that my game froze at probably the exact same place (2:15) every game I had enough. So last night I uninstalled and am now waiting on the legacy client to finalize the most recent patch while I discuss my latest frustration. I explain, the lagging issue last night was the worst.
Every game at about 1:50 to about 2:50ish. I'm not sure exactly the time this happens because i'm trying to figure out how to get back into game and not die to the enemy mid laner while my champion stands idle. But I do know it happens a lot considering my last five games. My last game though my game actually crashed. what I saw was a frozen screen, waiting on the reconnection bar to flash across the client but there was none, just a frozen screen sound playing in the background. The worst part is that this all happened after 3 min mark so my team wasn't able to remake, I felt horrible, tilted and I didn't even want to come back for all that I tried. My buddie in game telling me over the mic that I was still standing in lane the game not yet realizing I had "DC'ed."
P.S. I don't have all the time in the world so I may just have to update this discussion as I have the time.