Everyone wants League to be THEIR game, the glory, the addiction, the climb.
League of legends is the most popular game in the world right now, and it has the numbers to back this up. League of legends is well known for it's creative champions, constant updates, and being the vocal leader of the Esports community. Many new gamers join this game with the expectations to be good near instantly and be quickly among the best so they can start competing and make that twitch/ornament money. A life where you get paid to be a gamer, glorified and get chicks. What more could a person ask for?
However instead of exploring other games that may suite their personal play preference more. Street fighter, Smite, CS Go. Paragon. COUNTLESS other games that they could play, many chose to play league, despite it being something they don't like, and then they come onto the forums to complain. League of legends is by far not a perfect game, but it has does has some unique features that makes it feel interesting compared to others.
1-it has a fusion of 1 v 1 fighter mechanics that resemble ARPG combat with the goal of controlling the map one would on Dota or star craft.
2-Very Unique champion character design, with a relatable art style that appeals to many.
3-The fact if you get GOOD on league of legends, you WILL be given the oppurtunity to make money if you know how.
League of legends does heavily resemble Dota and some other mobas, but it does have some clear defining factors that separates it from the other games. However my issue with a lot of players would be this. They join this game, expecting it to be one thing, than when it's not that, they demand the developers to change the game to match what they want.
"MAKE THE GAME FASTER" What happens: You complain the game is to fast and needs to slow down
"Make the game Slower! Carries to powerful!" What happens: You complain tanks are to powerful and slow down the game way to hard cause carries can't end.
People want this to be THEIR game The way you speed up games is by nerfing tanks and buffing carries, for carries are the ones who end games through destroying towers and killing enemies. The way you slow down the game is by doing the reverse. It seems like to me people want that perfect "35 minute game" Every game, and I am just here to say. That is simply never going to happen. Hard games will always be around 40 minutes and stomps will always be around 20-30 minutes. It's purely dependent on how hard your team or the enemy team fucks up. It also has to do greatly with your elo and how your playing it. Fact is low elo players don't know how to end and push advantages. They simply don't so games tend to be longer than they should be in low elo. I can'[t count how many times when i'm playing in lower elos, and I see a perfect opportunity to end, and my team simply chose not to take it. So than the game drags on for another ten minutes. With the nature of league game times will always be abit randomized and that's part of the fun in it. You could stomp someone in 20 minutes or be in a dead lock for nearly an hour. League of legends is league of legends, if you don't like it, you have countless other games to explore. I like league of legends for what it is.
People Join expecting to be the best and get addicted for gold. Another major problem is league of legends has no story mode. In the old days you said "I beat this game because I conquered the story mode". To many that is the finish, that is the sign you did a good job, the pat on the back, that big grand final cutscene. However league of legends has no story mode, so...where is the end game? When do you get that final pat on the back saying "I beat league of legends, time to play another game". For that's how most gamers operate, they play a game, they beat it, they have fun, they join a new game. But PvPs dont' work that way. So I feel a lot of these RPG players, join league of legends, and are in for a big surprise when they find out league of legends has no ending, no final goal. The final goal is of your choosing. So to many the final goal is "okay, I want to get gold". So they get upset when they can't get to gold, and begin this obsession for Gold. They WILL NOT quit league until they get gold. This is the wrong mind set to have, you should be playing for you find the game fun, not obsessing for a rank.
Conclusion: -League is it's own game, don't try to change it to dota or hereos of the storm when it's doing it's own thing and is good at it. -You can't force staff to change the game for you -Even if you get the change you want your going to find something else to complain about, you always do -Stop obsessing over a rank that you might never get, it's a game, enjoy it for what it is -The nerfs, buffs, changes aren't the reason your not gold, your stuck in bronze/silver whatever rank you are because you have failed to learn. Nothing less nothing more. (that or you have really crappy fps/ping in which case, my heart goes out to you)
