League doesn't feel fun to play.

Scryer·11/30/2016, 5:12:54 AM·5 votes·1,585 views

Reasons:

  1. Game Length Game goes on way too long Can we condense this from 40-60 minute games down to 20-30 minute games, this game takes forever to play and people (myself included lose interest)

  2. Balancing Riot balances this whole game around the 5-10% of players (the new season makes the percentage of Plat+ players less clear). This leaves the remaining
    90% of the playerbase in a game where there a ton of champions that don't feel fun to play against at all, and if you dare complain about it you basically just get told to fuck off and get better before you're even allowed to have any form of grievance with how the game feels in terms of balance.

  3. New Player Experience I would never under any circumstance subject one of my friends to being a new player in League of Legends. The tutorials are a joke that don't prepare you for the meta at all and basically give you no context as to the majority of how this game is supposed to be played. Champions take an eternity to unlock and if you do decide to buy some you'll never be able to afford all the runes/rune pages you'll need to be halfway viable in a pvp setting.

  4. The Community The community is a bunch of complete %%%%s who take the game way too seriously, especially in normals, and clearly have lost touch with what fun even is. Being told to kill myself for losing lane isn't an uncommon thing, nor is being told to get cancer, and do you know what makes all of this worse? It spreads, some people, myself included don't like random assholes treating us like shit, so we act the same way back. There are games where I start by just typing /mute all, because I just don't feel like bothering with anyone, and while that solves the problem of people being dickheads, it removes the social aspect of the game which is one of the few things in this game that I still occasionally enjoy.

  5. Maybe I've just lost interest. I haven't had fun with League in a long time, and the only reason I ever play it is because a friend wants to. I used to love this game, It was amazing and fun, I cant explain why it was, only why I don't feel that way now. When I play this game and end up feeling robbed of my time and energy, as well as any good mood I had before I made the very foolish decision to click the little gold L on my desktop.

I'm sure many of you disagree with me, but perhaps some see where I'm coming from, I don't know if there is a solution and I doubt I'll ever enjoy this game the way I used to. Those of you who would like to add something constructive below I would enjoy to hear what you have to say.

14 Comments

JafarThePanda11/30/2016, 5:29:50 AM2 votes

Grow a pair and get over it.

Besides, any game past 35 minutes is your team throwing.

Zoeeee11/30/2016, 7:04:29 AM2 votes

I've noticed all of these things over the past few months. Balance and preseason are so out of hand it's not fun to play. Cotc is disgustingly broken and who ever designed it should be fired. All of the jungle changes are bad. The new items reek of power creep or unintuitive gameplay. I could list at least 30 champions that need large amounts of work. I don't want to hate this game, I love the characters Elise and most of the story. The derection this game is going is down hill with no sign of stopping. Matchmaking is at its worst in 3 years of playing this game. Games are either over in 20 minutes or they stall out till 60. I think the meta is being constricted by how toxic the jungle and mastery changes are. I'd hate to leave this game, but right now it brings me no joy.

BIackfox11/30/2016, 6:14:57 AM2 votes

Hell no. Short games are boring. That would basically be all blow outs. I love long ass games. I wish all my games were intense 70 minute close games

lilpokfluf11/30/2016, 6:53:31 PM2 votes

the only thing that sucks about this game is the small but LOUD ragers population. It doesn't happen every game but you remember when someone tells you to kill yourself and forget when they thank you for ganking them. If you are bored of the game, take a break or quit, theres so many other games out there for you to enjoy that won't tell you to kill yourself.

Keep in mind though, this is the internet someone somewhere will always tell you to kill yourself. Visit any game/social forum for examples

Jon117411/30/2016, 5:16:02 AM2 votes

One thing i would recommend is just to STOP

play something else,a lot of times what happens is all the bad stuff gets to me and will just go play Blood Bowl for a few weeks,mabey a month strait and then come back to LoL when i have had a break

Lokitron9411/30/2016, 7:02:06 PM1 votes

I just finished a game where I locked in tristana as a bot lane adc. what i got however was a riven (STILL ADC). then my whole game proceeded to be a ton of lag spikes (up to 10000 ms) and a frame rate drop from 45 to 2. i am the only person on my wifi. FIX IT RIOT.

Quil Evrything11/30/2016, 5:21:17 AM1 votes

#4 is the real problem. but actually, YOU are part of the problem.

losing isnt fun. losing happens a lot to new players/low elo, because other people screw around and dont take it seriously. i would pay a subscription to be in some kind of elo where everyone played seriously and treated other people courteously.

420 grams11/30/2016, 6:12:32 AM1 votes

Try 3 v 3. Shorter games. Different meta. Friendlier community. More exciting than 5 v 5 due to shorter lane phase and additional gold.

Quil Evrything11/30/2016, 6:41:52 AM1 votes

ps your poll is very inadequate. there needs to be other options, like "sometimes" "occasionaly" "when matching isnt a pathetic joke, so 1/5 of the time"

Sambers11/30/2016, 6:25:22 PM1 votes

Since when league has been a fun game to begin with...