It's frankly an embarrassment how bad of a state the client is left in

Eedat··84 votes·16,299 views

The client is an absolute hot mess. There are so many bugs and failures that you can't even list them all. But let me give you a list of just some of the bugs I've personally observed.

  • You have times where you load in to champ select and see nothing but a black screen. You can't see champs, runes, teammates picks, or practically anything. Sometimes you get lucky and the buttons still work so you can kinda guess where the search bar and runes are. Again, if you're lucky.
  • The client really wants to remind me that my friends got their gifts that I gave them OVER A YEAR AGO every time I log in.
  • The majority of the time when trying to access your loot tab you get met with a blank screen so you have to click back and forth between the store and loot tab until it eventually loads.
  • Sometimes the lock in button just decides not to work. Nothing like spamming lock in for a solid 20 seconds just for it not to work and getting booted from a lobby. Thank fucking god this has never happened to me in a promo game.
  • The client randomly decides to take a coffee break and not load in to the post game lobby for several minutes.
  • The client sometimes decides you've had enough time to pick and speeds up the countdown to lock in
  • Sometimes you just randomly get disconnect from chat. I can be on Discord with my friends and experience absolutely zero interruptions but at the same time not be allowed to connect to chat in LoL. Wut?
  • The client seems to think it knows better than you and discards all the changes you just made to a rune page in a lobby

Please, by all means add the bugs YOU experience in the comments below.

These are just the bugs that I have personally experienced just off the top of my head. We're getting close to 2 years in with this client and it's still an absolute abomination and frankly whoever works on it should be embarrassed at the quality of their work. I know that sounds harsh but lets be real. If I put out this quality of work at my job I'd be shown the door in short order straight up.

This isn't even factoring in in-game bugs. It's JUST the client ffs.

You aren't some small indie company anymore. This shit doesn't fly. LoL is one of the biggest video games in the entire world and the client is the face of your game that everyone uses to access it. The client is what people see before they even play the game itself. You need to take some budget out of the next Ahri skin and reallocate it into the technical side because quite frankly the client is a joke. I've played shitty Chinese knock off games with better clients than LoL's.

It's been almost 2 years now. These bugs are not acceptable anymore. Having bugs around launch is understandable but letting them persist while putting less than bare minimum effort into fixing them is not. For the love of god PLEASE use more resources into fixing it.

56 Comments

boricCentaur19 votes

I was part of the beta for the new client and I swear it work better then it is now. In my experience when the your shop and the crafting was added I started to noticed problems. The first bug I keep getting it just updates when I start it when no fucking update was released. The bug I have gotten the most and has actually hurt my games is when it say there was a problem in selecting my champion and it makes me click another champion that was next it or it say there was a problem so I pick another champion but then it picks the champion the problem was on.

Jerry SeinfeId1 votes

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I was part of the beta for the new client and I swear it work better then it is now. In my experience when the your shop and the crafting was added I started to noticed problems. The first bug I keep getting it just updates when I start it when no fucking update was released. The bug I have gotten the most and has actually hurt my games is when it say there was a problem in selecting my champion and it makes me click another champion that was next it or it say there was a problem so I pick another champion but then it picks the champion the problem was on.

same i was part of the beta and didn't experience any problems or lag, wasn't until like 6 months ago that it just started dieing for me.

Zeromatsu8 votes

Also: I love how you have to add LoL exceptions for the firewall with each update.

I just counted how many exceptions of "League of Legends" I have right now and it's insane. The number is 42.

GayFluffyUnicorn1 votes

That bugs me too. No other client needs it.

Buzzkillington04 votes

In this season alone, all my rune pages have been deleted twice.

Fisher No Chains11 votes

At least it wasn’t your LP getting deleted because of the “there was an error selecting your champion” error at 0 seconds. :^)

Midg3t4 votes

For a while I had a bug where I wasnt able to equip nor make a custom rune page while in champ select.

To clarify, I have 5 custom rune pages. But in champ select im only able to take default ones, and I cant even make the new one.

floo3 votes

If your internet connection varies the slightest, sometimes the launcher wont even TRY to reconnect, and just stay in "there is no internet connection"-state

Ozzie Storm3 votes

Once a player quit the pregame and got a notification that i was the one who quit [sg-ahri-1]

Fisher No Chains2 votes

It’s been like this for 2 years straight. I’ve posted countless threads on Reddit about the garbage ass client we’re stuck with and most of them reached the front page with 4K+ upvotes. Many other people posted client buglists and have been complaining about the client for years now, and yet we’ve had no response at all from Riot.

I’m starting to think that they just don’t know how to fix things. Their programmers are probably so bad they can’t get the client to work properly after years.

Multi billionaire company by the way.

ForeverLaxx2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Fisher No Chains,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=3TdcZLK4,comment-id=0006,timestamp=2018-12-27T05:42:50.544+0000)

It’s been like this for 2 years straight. I’ve posted countless threads on Reddit about the garbage ass client we’re stuck with and most of them reached the front page with 4K+ upvotes. Many other people posted client buglists and have been complaining about the client for years now, and yet we’ve had no response at all from Riot.

I’m starting to think that they just don’t know how to fix things. Their programmers are probably so bad they can’t get the client to work properly after years.

Multi billionaire company by the way.

They're trying to find "solutions" that other companies wouldn't think to try, because using what works is something Riot will never do. It's all about the "creative solutions."

So we get to suffer.

Fisher No Chains1 votes

In my opinion, that’s a short excuse for “we don’t know how to fix it properly and we’d need to rewrite the whole thing”.

ForeverLaxx1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Fisher No Chains,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=3TdcZLK4,comment-id=000600000000,timestamp=2018-12-28T13:39:36.909+0000)

In my opinion, that’s a short excuse for “we don’t know how to fix it properly and we’d need to rewrite the whole thing”.

As I recall, "creative solutions" was one of the interview requirements/questions when trying to get a job at Riot. They've never been interested in what worked unless they came up with it, and even if they did come up with it they still may not even use it. Their entire design and fix philosophy is to reinvent the wheel with every patch. They did the necessary tweaking of the formula to stand out in the MOBA genre to avoid dying like HoN did once DotA stopped being a mod and became Dota2. Problem is, they took the "we do things different" mantra and changed it to "we do things different because we have to."

So we're stuck with fixes that aren't fixes, problems with no solutions, and a frustrated old-guard playerbase that's increasingly marginalized in favor of fickle ADD "mobile gamers" because those people don't know any better. The only version of League they know is the excessively buggy version and they don't stick around long enough to get annoyed about it.

Ðu Šhiedah 2 votes

Hey bro u forgot the loading screen bug if u don't know it

Loading screen sometimes doesn't get u into the game once i stucked at loading screen for 5 mins and the game was already started LoL everyone becomes 100% and nothing happens so i have to wait and then i realized that the game was alraedy started :^)

Sorin Alucard2 votes

I got the lock out in promos once [zombie-nunu-bummed]

Caesíum2 votes

Anyone else love how on your match history sometimes it shows only your grade, sometimes it shows only your xp gain.

Pretty sure its supposed to show both, but it's been like this for over a year...I agree, pretty pathetic tbh lol

P.S. Loads of the champions skill descriptions/videos are for past versions of that champion or just have a load of random nonsense like %$'40 in there, quality stuff.

summoner 3

OrangeMarine1 votes

I'm glad you made this post bc i was going to, and your bugs are mostly different than what I experience.

My main issue is even opening the game. It takes me on average 10 minutes to even get the client to open. This started occurring about 2 months ago fwiw. I probably play less than half the time I actually want to play, bc the headaches I go through to even OPEN the client aren't worth it.

I have a mac--2014 iirc-- but in game it runs decently well and I have no issues with anything else (browsing internet, streaming videos, DAW). I have to open the app about 20 times before it actually opens (typically when I open the League app, it instantly closes), so I spam it and eventually one instance sticks. THEN, once it's open, every time now it says "we have restored ur version to a previous patch, we will now install the patch", which takes another 5 minutes or so, and then I have to try to open the app again, and again I deal with the fucking inability to open the app and it takes another 5 minutes to open the client. Sometimes it repatches twice before it even lets me in. That is my main gripe.

It seems like it's running multiple instances of League or something (idk anything about computers)...but Ill often have to open task manager and starting force quitting some of the multiple instances of the app to get one to actually open.

I DO NOT FACE THIS ISSUE WITH LITERALLY ANY OTHER APP. ONLY LEAGUE.

Other than that, the main other issue is in champ select, when I select a champ I'll often get a popup "there was a problem selecting ur champ". Since Riot removed the auto-lock when hovering, this has made me dodge a handful of times when I'm locking in last second (not enough time to close popup and then hit lock-in). I'd be more annoyed but I don't play ranked. But it's fucking really inconvenient when I'm playing with friends bc then they are forced to wait for my leaverbuster when I didn't in fact leave, so 2+ people are punished for the client.

KÌNDRÊD1 votes

when you say it takes 10 minutes to open do you mean that you click on the league application and then the logo shows up in the middle of your screen, it disappears and you have to wait 10 minutes before client opens or does something else happen to you?

OrangeMarine1 votes

the icon appears for a second, and the activity shows up for a second in task manager. Then they both immediately close. I spam the app and after like 20 attempts it opens. But then every time has to patch because they "repaired" the installation.

Icy Hot Shoto1 votes

One bug I've seen, rather than my crafting not loading, it freezes and can't be used. I can't scroll, can't hover over anything and get its info, can't click anything, and I can't see any loot that gets added to it. I have to log out and log back in to fix it.

Kynami1 votes

Queue not popping and leaving me in queue limbo for an extra minute or two after its told the rest that I didn't accept. Odds of bug occurrence skyrockets on rapid sequential queue prompts like when a couple people not in your group say no and you get three prompts within a short period.

How hard is it to have your queue service support polling every so often so that a couple lost or misplaced packets doesn't completely screw it up?

The Spicy Crit1 votes

Ay mate, give them a break. Client is in the pre-alpha phase.

BTW WHY DOES CLIENT REVERT ITSELF TO AN OLDER VERSION AND PATCHES UP WHENEVER I FORCE CLOSE IT??????????

Rabbi Shekelberg1 votes

fun way to list bugs, i am amused by your post

Gilgayu1 votes

Not sure if this has to do with the client...

Every once in a while when I open the client, there will be a sign saying my client isn't up to date and this version will be restored and it will be auto-updated in 5,4,3,2,1 (like when there is a patch, but the wording is a little different.) When I click update (or whatever it says, just can't remember now), the client restarts without showing any sign of updating (so no window saying how many minutes left, which appears everytime when there is a patch). Then it says the same thing, and I have to "update" again.

This goes in a never ending cycle, and sometimes I just have to wait a few minutes then try again or even just restart my laptop...

14daysuspensionk1 votes

Why the fuck was tihs linked from a locked post by a mod that thought the post was the exact same as this lmao.

Leetri10 votes

Cause that other thread is a low-effort shitpost copying this meant to farm upvotes, while this at least has some thought and effort put into it.

LiL Bunnie FuFuu1 votes

Excuse me it's a low effort shitpost copying this because I hate the client_ and_ because I want to farm upvotes.

get it right sheesh

qewqewqewqew1 votes

The most frequent bug for me has been clicking on the League icon in the desktop to have the logo appear in the middle of the screen but the client doesn't open for another 5-10 minutes. It has been happening for 1 and a half years and I have switched to 2 different laptops and a PC, but it still happens.

Leetri1 votes

I've personally never gotten any bugs in the new client at all, but the old client was buggy as hell for me. Couldn't see the post-game lobby for over a year, the store wouldn't load, etc.

Beacon Academy1 votes

2018 and still can't click/drag arrange item build orders in your list.

ModAcademy Kayn1 votes

I'm not saying that the bugs that everyone is experiencing aren't real, not at all. But they're honestly not as not as common as you think they are. If there were so many, general, bugs that the client is guaranteed to have I feel I would've eventually ran into at least one, but I haven't. A quick ask around of friends doesn't reveal much either. It's not really bad as a whole, I just think you're a victim of circumstance.

LiL Bunnie FuFuu2 votes

Imagine taking an experience between you and your friends ("the client isn't so bad") and extending that to the **entire community **("it's not really bad as a whole")

lol

ModAcademy Kayn1 votes

Imagine taking a thread (This one) on a place that is practically built for people to complain (The Boards) and acting like it's also an accurate example for the Community. The post above is not being stated as, his experience, he's taking the client itself as a whole, to be collectively bad. However, from multiple people's cases as well as my own, there has never been a problem with the client for them.

I'm not saying what's happening isn't happening. I'm saying if the Client really was a PoS as a whole, I should have an above average chance of hearing about it from the people around me, and not in a place that people like to go to complain.

LiL Bunnie FuFuu1 votes

Imagine taking a thread (This one) on a place that is practically built for people to complain (The Boards) and acting like it's also an accurate example for the Community.

wow you're really bad at sarcasm. You literally said "my friends don't have issues with the client thus the client isn't as bad as you think". That's not an argument. That is the opposite of an argument

The post above is not being stated as, his experience, he's taking the client itself as a whole, to be collectively bad.

A sentiment which has been expressed in dozens of threads over the last two years, a lot of which have been massively upvoted. That is an indicator that the client has a lot of issues with it - which it does. Another indicator is that Riot has stated they will be looking into fixing issues with the client, although idk what work is actually being done/not being done on it

I'm not saying what's happening isn't happening. I'm saying** if the Client really was a PoS as a whole, I should have an above average chance of hearing about it from the people around me**, and not in a place that people like to go to complain.

Oh I see - the Client is "fine" or doesn't have "that many issues" because you're not hearing complaints about it from your_ friends_ but the opinions of hundreds of people on the Boards is instantly discounted because "this is the place where people go to complain". Well isn't that where you'd expect to see threads like this? On the Boards?

Has it occurred to you that people who hate the client hate it because it has real issues with it - not because they like to complain (as fun as complaining can be)?

Speaking of friends, several people around me hate the client and think it's hot garbage - like I do (the client takes up an insane amount of processing power and I also experience many of the listed bugs & then some). I guess their opinions must be more valuable and relevant because they didn't post them in the place "people like to go to complain". Right?

Colorful Dream1 votes

My most common is after one or two people decline queue pop, although I click Accept every time, it will decline again but say "Colorful Dream has failed to accept ready check" and I'll be booted from queue. Makes me wonder if the other "declines" are from the same bug affecting other people.

GFREEMEN1 votes

Why they dont drop the flash client and remake it in HTML5 is beyond me.

Refer A Friend 11 votes

One problem I've had is that if you click the "skip results screen" button and the honor page comes up shortly after, you're stuck with a black screen on the client and forced to restart.

ForeverLaxx1 votes

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One problem I've had is that if you click the "skip results screen" button and the honor page comes up shortly after, you're stuck with a black screen on the client and forced to restart.

Skipping results doesn't even save you time anyway. Every time I do it, I still have to wait until the last game "ended" before I can start the next one. The client still counts the Results page as necessary to have loaded and quit from to start a new game. I don't even know why they still bother with the Skip button.

Saianna1 votes

When the client was relased I made a thread with gallery bugs and improvement suggestions. All ignored. "We hear your feedback"

Andevar1 votes

There's also the bugs where the client kicks you back to lobby because it thinks someone didn't accept, when in reality everyone accepted the prompt.

Client is just a mess as it is right now. Nothing works properly. Even the club rosters don't let me look at a player specifically, making me have to type in their names, and if they got some weird ass character, I have to find out how to copy it.

Arammus1 votes

https://puu.sh/CmZuY/9f225768a9.jpg

i call it the yasuo client. all you see when you play yasuo. malph + ori. gg.

the shy top1 votes

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https://puu.sh/CmZuY/9f225768a9.jpg

i call it the yasuo client. all you see when you play yasuo. malph + ori. gg.

LOL what is this

Arammus1 votes

happend only twice this season but yeah.

Paravozikchoocho1 votes

Apart from what you already mentioned.

  1. Client decides that I don't like the resolution I set and keeps resetting it almost everytime
  2. Client keeps asking for firewall permission after each patch
  3. Client stuck at 100% for 10+ min when switching the servers
  4. Client decides that I don't need to accept this queue
  5. Client basically glitches and doesn't respond, have to fucking open it and log in again.
Teriyaki Bukkake1 votes

I agree with this post :/ Sometimes I wish the client could just be a big image of big chungus and to lock in a champion you have to rub his belly

BigFBear1 votes

Weird... I have not even one of these issues. Works all fine. Maybe have to do with certain graphiccards?

Charmy Bird1 votes

they dont even care dude theyre like:WeLl ItS wOrKiNg FiNe FoR Us.HaVe YoU TrIeD LoW SpEc MoDe?

when u keep making millions of dollars and u keep wasting em on music videos and comics instead of balancing your own game and fixing your bugs its normal for your game to be a shitty mess.league reminds me some shitty private colleges we have in my country,they have a very strong and good marketting they show their best about how polished and professional they are but once you go in there its a big shithole

the shy top1 votes

When I hover my friends list some of the people are in 90+ minute games even though they're not on op.gg says their game only lasted 20 minutes and they aren't in a live game..

[zombie-brand-mindblown]

Oh and also I get bugsplats a lot so the client needs to 'revert to an older version and needs to download again'.

FFS

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