This Game lost its identity for casuals 20min games.

League of Legends has a history and a core gameplay that made its success.

Destroying or altering it will be very dangerous for the game...

when the game became popular the core gameplay involved :

• 35-40min games
• Turrets which can protect you until mid game
• Games that are based on little lane trades and finally in teamfights in mid late game

This is the game i decided to play. And you, the game you decided to play too.

However your frustration to loose time in ranked games if you loose a 40-50min game made you reconsider the core gameplay of the game.

If you rank YOU SHOULD DESERVE IT if not IT'S NOT INTERESTING !!! Why playing ranked games if you wont offer time to it ? Climbing ranks should be something difficult and huge, not a quick thing based on 20min games comon...

First of all when league began it was unknown to the public it was people playing in a new kind of game derived from a warcraft 3 mod the moba. The first players played the game because of its dark ambiance and it's funny aspect. The competitive aspect wasn't really born yet.

Those first players began to spread the fact that there is a new funny game. The game became more and more popular however the community was still small.

One thing changed after the apparition of e-sports. Seeing that League of Legends could be a competitive game and this will make the game even more popular. Riot intentionnally changed the gameplay in a way to make the game more competitive. So they made it slowly to be sure that old player base would not quit because LoL community was still mostly composed by them.

Old players + E-Sports advertising were asking people to try a new funny and competitive game.

My question is why do you play LOL ?

Those are the posibilities :

• A friend recommended you the game or talked about it
• You saw this game on youtube or on tv during an E-sports event
• You saw a review of the game
• You saw a random video about it and it seemed fun

The main reason why you play it's becuase you saw older players than you play the game. By older i mean which played before than you. When you see faker on tv he played lol way before you. When your friend recommended you the game he was playing way before you.

My second question is what makes you like LOL ?

The real reason if you like league of legends you like it because it's league of legends. But what makes league of legends League of legends ?

its mechanics and gamplay.

So why people are divided ?

Its simple players that played more than 2 years and e-sports players began to play the game with mechanics and gameplay that they liked. Since Riot made those big changes the game's identity is dying for those players. But the new player base mostly play the game without knowing the game identity aspect of it. Even streamers and e-sports players talked on streams or on forums about those big changes and most of them couldn't talk about it but they seemed unpleased with them.

if League of legends loose it's identity the core players will leave. The core players are the ones who make new players appear. They are the ones who say come play lol it's fun and they are the e-sports players too.

In the past a friend of mine recommended me lol during season 2. He still plays but told me i wouldn't recommend this game anymore. And he is not the kind of a angry troll...

Meanwhile new players don't understand the anger and they think that older players think that they are far superior and that their thoughts shouldn't be heard.

I will say no that's not true and it's a bad interpretation. New players have to think that if they play LOL it's because it's popular. But why is it popular ? because the core players loved the traditional gameplay and mechanics. Their thoughts should be heard too but they should listen to the core players too.

We are worried because the game is loosing its identity at the risk that the core player feel uncomfortable and that they'll leave. If the core players leave the popularity will decrease and the game will die.

WHAT IS LEAGUE OF LEGENDS IDENTITY ?

ITS GAMEPLAY AND MECHANICS !

A GAME ALWAYS ALTERING ITS GAMEPLAY AND MECHANICS LOOSE ITS PAST IDENTITY.

RESULT : A PART OF THE PLAYERS DOES NOT IDENTIFY THEMSELVES WITH THE NEW IDENTITY OF LOL

NEW PLAYERS DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPENNING.

And from these a lot of players (not all of them) are there because it's popular, fun, they love characters designs and identify themselve to them. They don't really care about the state of the game they only do care about the fun aspect of it...

In a nutshell :

Many players loved the classic gameplay of lol because of that they still plays lol nowadays.

==> perhaps because you saw e-sports you actually play the game but you only play the game because e-sport players loved how the game was played when they began to play !!!

and this implies this kind of gampeplay which has been the core gameplay of LOL, what made it unique :

• 35-40min games
• Turrets which can protect you until mid game
• Games that are based on little lane trades and finally in teamfights in mid late game

And that you all seem to forget it !!!