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Anybody else feel like the game is underwhelming?

EugeneSims··26 votes·1,645 views

I remember when I used to wake up excited to get on the computer and play League of Legends. When I would spend hours playing, not caring about losing or winning, happy that I managed to try out new champions and see their abilities. When I would pratically drag my friends online just to play with them or enjoying my time with strangers...

I've been playing for three years or so and I have to admit, this game has been so underwhelming lately. I see a new champion and kind of roll my eyes, not excited to see them and I mostly buy them for the sake of being new (it's kind of an impulse). I read the patch notes and it's huge chunks of text that bore me to no end, the constant changes to the game that feel unecessary and forced. I'm not sure if I've exhausted all of the excitment I had towards the game but it genuinely feels like all these changes, new champions, new skins...they are all kind of "meh".

Don't get me wrong; the design of these champions and skins are great but it's become so common that it just makes me shrug. In all honesty, the kits of these recent champions have been uninteresting, the changes in items are uninteresting, the game still feels one-sided and I don't feel the urge to play as much as before. I can go days without touching the game, it doesn't cross my mind until I focus on my desktop and see the icon there and when I do click on it, I patch and just close it or I play a few games and feel bored after two or three.

Out of those three years of playing, this year has been the most boring and not even Hextech feels rewarding, not even buying new champions feels rewarding. Doing anything other than playing this game feels more worthy of my time, lately.

I'm kind of waiting for that sudden burst of emotion that makes me want to play again because there are some good memories I have about this game and I genuinely like seeing the game from an artistic prespective (the way splash arts are drawn, the way champions look, visual updates, etc) but as an actual active player --- doing something in-game --- it's just not enjoyable.

25 Comments

SlaktarTasken3 votes

Yes. Too much change in too short of a timespan, no mercy, no allowing anyone but whoever has the most time to be able to keep up.

This has literally killed the game for me, LoL has gone from fun to tedious. The ammount of time I've spent reading patch notes and PBE notices is staggering compared to previous seasons. The need to network and headhunt for a good premade, to not get fucked in "ranked" has made the game feel more like work than relaxation. Fighters are shit if you're not GP or Trundle. And most of my irl friends have moved on. Honestly, it has gone so far that I don't even feel the release of true soloQ could be this games saving grace. Hextech crafting just feels like a bandaid, I would have revelled at the though of free skins a year ago, now it just feels meh and I don't really care.

Now we got "blink dagger" yippie fucking hoooray! So fresh! Whatever.

Nisaki2 votes

It's more like force staff really :P +1 tho

SlaktarTasken1 votes

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It's more like force staff really :P +1 tho

I wish I knew, not really big on Dota2.

[zombie-nunu-tears]

Nisaki2 votes

I wish I was actually decent at Dota, it sounds way more in-depth but I can't get past the unresponsive feeling the game has. :c

Athenes Lulu3 votes

I think that applies to most games just simply "getting old".

Yes, there are games that don't become "boring", but that's because they have been "boring" from the start, and never got anymore interesting or more boring over time. League just has too many dynamic changes happening all at once.

I don't mind changes, but to the point where it discourages individual skill, that most players (yes even support mains who depend on their teammates to win) value? Especially where a lot of players play single-player games for their most of their gaming time? DynamicQ (and the fact that it replaces solo/duo and ranked 5s Q's) discourages that, the "faster paced games" discourages a lot of that, and so on.

There's no need to ask this kind of question when the majority of Boards are filled with threads like these; but for even people who actually values teamwork as well as individual skill, yes, the game is becoming underwhelming.

Zone of Endless2 votes

Remove dynamic with from ranked. That's all I care about.

EugeneSims1 votes

That's one of the reasons why I've stopped playing ranked. One-sided games are annoying but when it's competitive like ranked, it just feels much worse. I think they will bring back Solo Q...it's only a matter of when.

Zone of Endless1 votes

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That's one of the reasons why I've stopped playing ranked. One-sided games are annoying but when it's competitive like ranked, it just feels much worse. I think they will bring back Solo Q...it's only a matter of when.

I doubt they will bring it back looking at all their responses to it. Riot been really stubborn as of late.

EcchiOtakuTM1 votes

I like dynamic queue just wish it ran on solo/duo and ranked teams(5v5) only otherwise what it does is good.

Until they return ranked to being solo/duo queue I'm gonna ignore playing ranked.

Daen1 votes

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I like dynamic queue just wish it ran on solo/duo and ranked teams(5v5) only otherwise what it does is good.

Until they return ranked to being solo/duo queue I'm gonna ignore playing ranked.

By definition, Dynamic Queue is the system that dynamically matches premades of varying sizes together. It isn't possible to rework Dynamic Queue in the way you're describing (solo/duo + ranked 5s), because that approach is diametrically opposed to what Dynamic Queue is intended to do.

EcchiOtakuTM1 votes

Oh wtf really? Lol I actually always assumed dynamic queue meant the "pick 2 positions" part I didn't know it meant that.

Meh well keep how you choose roles and champ select from dynamic queue but turn it back into solo/duo queue+ranked teams.

Cause I do like everything about dynamic queue except premades of 3/4.

Daen2 votes

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Oh wtf really? Lol I actually always assumed dynamic queue meant the "pick 2 positions" part I didn't know it meant that.

That would be New Champion Select, not Dynamic Queue. New Champion Select is the role picking system, Dynamic Queue is the premade matching system.

Meh well keep how you choose roles and champ select from dynamic queue but turn it back into solo/duo queue+ranked teams.

How you choose roles and champ select is not part of Dynamic Queue at all, they are completely separate systems. Using Solo/Duo Queue + Ranked Teams would mean not using Dynamic Queue at all, this distinction is extremely important.

EcchiOtakuTM1 votes

Yea I'm glad I understand it now I can suggest better. All this time I swore new champi select was dynamic queue lol

Daen2 votes

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All this time I swore new champi select was dynamic queue lol

Riot hasn't done a particularly good job defining that distinction, so I don't blame you for thinking they were the same thing. :P

EcchiOtakuTM1 votes

Well thanks for the info it was very helpful.

And I'm gonna have the last reply >:c

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

but srsly thanks [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

deadlychuck2 votes

Honestly i'm forcing myself to play with this new mage update right now. Not because i'm enjoying it, but because i want experience as much as i can to reinforce the idea in my head that the game has been changed beyond the point that i enjoy it and, in my personal opinion, is complete garbage.

They keep making these changes which feel heavily biased **against **the kind of play style i enjoyed and played for going on 7 years. Unaddressed mobility creep, Overloading kits, dropping time to kill (burst), crit centered marksmen, cheese centered mages, now the stat design isn't cohesive with the rising champion power so you have shit like tank assassins everywhere, and then changing well designed kits for no rhyme or reason into some of these abominations.

9 inches of love2 votes

it's because everyone that used to make the old champs/skins and balance patches have been kicked out and replaced by a bunch of sjw that cant do their job, I mean hell, look at the guy that balances the game (scarizard) he doesn't even know what to buy on champs, he had gunblade on veigar. The new artworks are really bad compared to the old ones, I dont know why they hired these people tbh, anyone that says they are good is either blind or has no taste at all...

Zerolera1 votes

I'm not sure if that's so much the game's fault or it's simply because you're just getting bored of playing the same game over and over. A lot of the changes are to try to keep players interested in the game but that doesn't always work.

EugeneSims1 votes

Yes, I understand the need for change but I guess it's not working for me. It's funny because when the different game-modes come out, I do like playing those. The normal game (or ranked) just don't give me the same rush. Guess it's a good thing they are doing the rotating queues --- at least I can have some fun every weekend or so. Maybe I have to take a longer break or just limit myself and see if the interest picks up...

Raka Flaka MD1 votes

You are just getting bored of the game. It;s like when i 1st played WoW. I was amazed by the graphics, the huge open world, the endless amount of things to do! Then after a few years it just kinda got old.

deadlychuck3 votes

The irony is that the problem both games had wasn't their age, it was that the devs made massive changes to the game trying to expand their player base even further, then once they reached the critical mass of players, they kept changing shit despite having almost no more audience to expand into. Now we are seeing the decline of LoL probably, as riot continues making massive changes that change the game to something that the existing players don't want. Then as they gain a few new players they lose them multiple times faster.

Rather than making changes to the game that kept things fresh but the same, they make changes that are completely different. By the end of these champion updates, league will have completely changed from the game much of it's player base started playing, and will likely have lost most of them.

Soldier of 4Jhin1 votes

Hence red and blue jungle timers without vision

Mysterage1 votes

I'm a beta player, and I've felt like you've described for about as long as you've played League...

WookieJesuz1 votes

Its only fun if you have some friends to play with

Dealth1 votes

I wish LoL was like every other video game that never got boring!

Oh wait.

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