This is NOT my work; it's something I came across on youtube and thought I'd share, as it's my feelings exactly.
Why I love League of Legends but Hate Playing It
I'm sure I'll get flamed for this or whatever, but I thought I'd share it regardless. Someone else can enjoy it too. :)
I won't waste my time on explaining why this video sucks.
EDIT: Nevermind, i will. After you hit level 30, it's like hitting 18 in the real life. There will be some expectations, and you will meet a lot more assholes than before. You will take it more seriously than before, and you will try to position yourself in some way. You will be put into a place by a system that you have no control of. You will have losing streaks, and moments that make your tear shed. If someone (like the maker of this video) wants to remain in his little colorful world, and doesnt want to use his possibilities, i pity that poor soul. If he doesnt want to embrace the truth, that this is a competitive game, and a competitive life, then i pity him. If he cries about some offensive people, he won't have the power to step into the world as a grown up. You must cut through this grit to see the moment, that moment when you say: "it was worth". Everything was worth that i was doing. All the pain and suffering was worth because i got there, may it be gold, platinum, a steady job, a peaceful family, or the LCS. I pity this guy for not having guts to cut through the trolls and flamers to ascend to a better state.
Or just get a goddamn ranked team.
I can sum of any video ever made by a casual who's never played a moba before. here goes. Ready?
Don't play Moba's without a ranked 5's team to start your...Adventure... With.
tried to watch, overly loud background music, the guy who sounded like he was always out of breath, and the terrible rhyming dissuaded me. would have a better response from someone sitting in front of a webcam and actually, personally, sharing their thoughts; Elementz's video comes to mind.
Wow that was really good XD
hm, so true. Time to change my gameplay. there are some people on here that are really nice though. I was trying out Swain and the opposing enemies were supporting me. I enjoyed that match. this needs moar views
This video isn't for everyone, true. However, I like to believe that people are better than screaming racial slurs in all chat for someone who died once (because it has happened to me, multiple times in fact), people telling me to die, kill myself, grow up, get a life, get laid, more obscenities, the list goes on. While I agree, yes, in real life you are going to encounter assholes, rarely will they be as toxic as the ones in this game. One misstep, one death, mistimed ability, and you can get beat down on. More than once it's made me not want to play League, to take a break that day, or for that week.
The maker of this video is not living in his own world, he's making a statement. The kind of toxicity in this game is not the kind you will see in real life, period. If you do, I'm sorry, because it's certainly not how I experience my life. And does the absolute hatred and disgust I've seen from other players make it more gratifying for me to become ranked, to work my way up from bronze to silver to gold? No. What makes the game gratifying, for me, is the effort. The working with your team to complete a goal, to have those teamfights that seamlessly come together and make it all worth it. To taste victory, to get that triple, quadra, penta. But that gets taken away when people yell at me and say absolutely horrible, horrible things because they've had bad games, or they're on tilt, or I'm breaking the meta, or I die, ect ect.
Again, I reiterate: it's not crying. It's making a point. Toxicity does not make you a better player. Yelling at other people, or being yelled at, does not make you a better player. It's a competitive game, there's going to be shit talking. It's to be expected, honestly, and I do my fair share. But I never, ever cross the line into obscenity. I'll say things like "rekt", or "lol", normal things I've come to expect myself. And when I die, or make a mistake, I laugh when I get the same messages back. Competitiveness is different from toxicity. You shouldn't have to expect to step into a game and get berated for a single mistake. That, itself, can drive people on tilt. It's done it to me, and it affects your game if you cause your teammates to go on tilt, or fight one another.
To quote Jesse and KodeVu, "I already have five enemies on the other side, why should I have to deal with four more on my own?"
It's not a conducive environment. People come to win, but in order to win, someone else has to lose. I understand that, it's why even the pros have a win/loss ratio of 50%. I expect that, I take the losses with the wins. Of course it's upsetting, but I don't take it out on my teammates, I take it as an opportunity to excel and grow, to outperform my last game. To win, to keep going forward, to keep seeing results. But not everyone does, and when you come expecting a win, and you lose, and you take it out on those around you, you inhibit their growth as well as your own. And therein lies the problem with toxicity.
I commend you if you can outlive it, outgrow it, and ignore it, but for most people, you can't. The toxicity is overwhelming. I've seen it affect Diamond, Plat, Gold, hell everyone in every ranking, even unranked. And that, again, is the point of the video. To make a statement, present the toxicity, and to challenge you to make League a better place.
