LOL is unplayable and no longer fun

Darkinlegend··14 votes·3,332 views

The game isn't fun anymore. Its just annoying. Its a game that basically says, "if you want to win, exploit the stupidest things in Riot's design until they nerf it"

We have things like tank Ekko who can out damage a fighter with only one armor item, while out CCing him and out tanking him. We have Graves and Quinn that make fighters irrelevant in lane. We have champions that get to do massive damage and then go back to safety, like LeBlanc--high reward low risk. We have super annoying champions like fizz who get too much mobility and defense while still doing tons of damage. We have new champions being rolled out while tons of existing champions are in abysmal states--and then they update all the mages, many of which were in a good state. We can go on and on with this list. Its just all annoying.

Riot never respond to these kinds of posts and grievances. They are too busy deciding for millions of players how they think the game should go--making stupid changes to the game, progressively making every champion and item more convoluted and confusing and annoying. I call them coward for not engaging with customers who are upset with what season 6 has become. Instead they just respond to the safe and friendly posts, lest their fragile egos and feelings be hurt.

Don't fool yourselves, all of you league players...Riot is the equivalent to Zynga or EA. They are just about the money now. Probably always have been.

Think about it: why is every patch such a god damn massive change to so much? Are they always THAT far unbalanced and screwed up that EVERY patch has to change so much??? Or MAYBE, they do it to drive sales, forcing people (because they want to win and not lose) to try new champions, which means invetiably some people will spend money on them or the skins.

Its too bad Riot will never hire like, ya know, real game designers to fix this game---I have a feeling the company is comprised of game enthusiasts who are buddies with this or that person, who have no actual experience in game design other than working on League or DOTA or something.

16 Comments

Fatalitý4 votes

I agree I don't want to stop playing this game but it's become so unfun to play and I agree with Riot just becoming about money now, they don't care about their own game they just want more and more money.

Sir Hammerlock3 votes

I don't agree with all of your insults directly towards Riot, nor do I agree with your comment about League being boring.

I do, however, agree with the fact that it's become a very un-fun game to play. Generally, I like to play Normal Blinds to have fun in my games, but even in Blinds I'm seeing constant God-tier and S+-tier picks like Tank Ekko, Zed, Malzahar and more.

Darkinlegend1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sir Hammerlock,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=7cg13w6j,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2016-05-08T03:13:43.439+0000)

I don't agree with all of your insults directly towards Riot, nor do I agree with your comment about League being boring.

I do, however, agree with the fact that it's become a very un-fun game to play. Generally, I like to play Normal Blinds to have fun in my games, but even in Blinds I'm seeing constant God-tier and S+-tier picks like Tank Ekko, Zed, Malzahar and more.

I mean, I'm sorry but after a couple years of seeing how they act...I just really think low of them now. Is that my fault? I don't think low of Cox, or AT&T or other companies---they are always providing more services, more value for less money as the years roll by. Riot makes hundreds of millions of dollars more each year than the previous....over a billion now...and yet I don't see the types of improvements and value I expect to see from a growing company.

JRobin312 votes

Actually, I had a terrible experience with AT&T specifically where when I called their customer support I was mocked by their representative. I have never had such a horrible experience with a company ever before and I stopped using AT&T products with no intention of returning. Just saying.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sir Hammerlock,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=7cg13w6j,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2016-05-08T03:13:43.439+0000)

I do, however, agree with the fact that it's become a very un-fun game to play. Generally, I like to play Normal Blinds to have fun in my games, but even in Blinds I'm seeing constant God-tier and S+-tier picks like Tank Ekko, Zed, Malzahar and more.

But again, they pick such picks because these S+ champs are banned whenever they don't play blind pick.

I don't like it either, but that's pretty much the main explanation.

deadlychuck2 votes

I think "unplayable" is wrong. The game isn't becoming any worse or better, but it is fundamentally changing. It's very subjective if that's a good or bad thing, but the more important question is this. Will the players which enjoyed the old version of league of legends enjoy the new version?

If yes, great (up for debate)

If no, then the question that follows is "Is riot expanding to a larger or smaller demographic of players?"

I played WoW back before they fundamentally changed the game, in an attempt to bring in even more players. Yet they failed to recognize that with a game as large and popular as world of warcraft, they were shifting to appeal to a new (smaller) audience, but moving to far away from what the older audience enjoyed. This is basically where i think riot is at with league. They've successfully expanded the game through changes to the point that any changes away from the core values are simply detrimental to the future of the game.

Zorasama2 votes

Everyone I've played with since season 1 quitted this game for good, but I won't. I want to see how worse it's going to be until the very end.

Xilbur1 votes

Well that is your opinion, others say that it is always new things to try. New ideas and new exploits with new metas. The dragon update was a good idea and still is. But MY opinion, I agree with you. I started league at the start of season 4 (still pretty new) and even if the graphics were bad, it was very enjoyable. The new champions coming out were just simple, plain and easy to take on. For example, Zed. Zed's q is a linear skill shot that does damage. What is blitz's q? A linear skillshot that pulls people towards you. Jhin's Q? A bouncing grenade that does more damage if it kills targets on its way on its bounce. This also can activate his w. Why can't it just be shorter?

Anags1 votes

Cool, go play something else.

Darkinlegend2 votes

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Cool, go play something else.

I'm fixing too. Go respond so someone else's post.

Zorasama2 votes

Oh don't worry he will, in fact he might be playing something else right now since this game is seriously not fun to play constantly anymore.

BluePolarizer1 votes

already have done so. Starcraft and real life sports.

Albatrosspro1 votes

Is it no longer... unplayable? Doh' on the wording, brah.

CaptainAsasin1 votes

I agree your opinions towards Ekko and LeBlanc. I main Ekko and Fizz. but Fizz is so weak now. He needs a buff. Fizz has extreme difficulty in laning.

MortalKombatIV1 votes

I totally agree with everything in this post. I would also add that in my experience LOL is getting worse the higher you climb the ELO ladder. I mean bronze is hell, silver gets better, gold is hell again because everybody just plays god tier champs. Every f....... game Yasuo. In my opinion Yasuo is the perfect example of RIOT sacrificing game balance and player experience for money. This guy has no mana, no energy and has spammable skills with tons of damage and mobility. Compare that to Galio who has three Q before he runs out of mana and every single Yasuo skill is stronger than Galio's Q. At the moment 35% of players use Yasuo and that means they bleeded him dry. Now RIOT is going to nerf him to Aatrox tier and launch a new Asian looking(or some other big market) overpowered freak to ruin our fun. I spent like 50$ on skins for champs that are unplayable during last 3 seasons and i have to say F..... U RIOT! F....... YOU AND F....... YOUR FACE!!! You betrayed millions to feed your greed.

P.S : Sorry for the f words

Un Pachiderma1 votes

I agree, this game gives me stress in 9 games out of 10. But it would be less bad if it wasn't even for that terrible matchmaking i receive from august 2016. Bot lane 4 vs 2 from min 3, 8 times on 10. Pre teams vs my full random team, gold/plats against us as well. I'm tired. Amumu

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