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This game has went downhill, and so has Riot.

Blast Me Daddy·11/15/2015, 1:29:00 PM·144 votes·5,674 views

I hate the preseason so much, games are decided in 10 minutes just because all the new items, adc reworks are all fucking unreal. I'm gonna be honest here I think league is a great game and all, but ever since the release of season 5 I think it just went all downhill, Riot is trying to make us play this stupid LCS meta. I feel like they are trying to make this game way too competitive and punishing for every god damn player that fucks up, like if I give a kill in the jungle, I am completely screwed there is absolutely nothing I can do now. Their jungler can just come and fuck me up anytime and take my buffs because I am super behind, and yes there are times like where I should have been aware of the invade on my end, but most of the time its because of something really stupid and you shouldn't be punished for the rest of the game. Personally this may sound dumb, but I think Riot should make a new server for people who play the game to have fun and not just try hard every game and be forced to play their meta its so stupid that we need to be forced to play the game their way and not our own how we have fun. The game shouldn't be so snowbally and the chances of having a fun game that can be turned around is like 1/4000 games it is unreal how low the chances are of playing an actual fun game. All and all the preseason is stupid adc's are way too strong right now and are unreal. It's amazing how Riot still has pbe, because everything that people think just goes right to the trash can and is completely forgotten about. I understand the game should have some change, but season 3 was probably the most balanced season imo and shouldn't have been changed so much, in season 3 there wasn't a time where no game was able to come back and favor you. Riot is also completely ignoring on how they even got popular and think the players are just useless and they don't give a rats ass about us at all, they just want money. Riot never cares about how we think of the game it's only for the pro players. And they make way too much change and when the community hates it, they will never remove it because of their ego is too damn high to even care what we think just because they put time into it they force us to use what they make. Thank you for reading this and if you agree on what I say please leave an up-vote. Thank you :)

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fukimissHarambe11/15/2015, 2:49:30 PM10 votes

You have to remember that tencent owns riot, if you were here (or even just have heard about) early on in league riot was a kind god giving away IP boosts and spending a lot of resources for cool holiday events. Now, there is no way to tell how much of what they are doing is Tencent and how much is acually rito but I can say pretty certainly that it isn't all riot.

Fisk11/15/2015, 8:39:04 PM10 votes

Ok, season three was not balanced. Can we remember darius, diana, hecarim, zyra, elise and all of the other champions. Olaf going from absolute god tier to "olaf'd". Season 5's tank meta was balance. That is the MOST balanced time we have had so far. And this is the preseason. Shit gets wonky. It happens. Be patient and move on. People just get upset when things change from "the good ole days" but they have to recognize that its not even necessarily true and change is sometimes just different, not better nor worse.

Jamaree11/15/2015, 1:33:19 PM9 votes

Game shouldn't be balanced around the lower end of the spectrum.

CuteGuy6pack11/15/2015, 5:14:25 PM4 votes

I actually loved season 5, It was the most balanced the game has ever been! Except the juggernauts. This pre season is by far the worst. If these changes make it through I'll quit for sure. I love the adc reworks, but the gold income change, nerf to towers, nerf to jungle, 15 min games, no comeback style games are honestly the least fun i've had in league in forever. (I even win most of my games). Stomps aren't fun.

Imagine how bad stomps will be in dynamic queue when you get a premade vs solo queuers.

BITE ZA DUSTO11/15/2015, 3:39:22 PM4 votes

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Pengrin11/15/2015, 6:13:17 PM4 votes

Been saying this for forever, now people are starting to realize it. (New) Riot has been trying to be "innovative" and are falling flat on their face, because their "innovations" are purely imaginative and only hurt the balance of this game while stuffing in a bunch of changes no one wants to experience.

The purest example of this trash Riot has been stuffing in this game, other than the 5 billion other changes they made, is the Morde rework. Trying to stuff a melee ADC (that was an AP champion before putting his kit into a shredder) to bot lane will just not work the way they did it by adding passive after passive.

There is also the fact that Riot seems to never want to communicate with the community anymore. Even before on GD before this reddit clone came along, Rioters like Guinsoo and Zileas still commented on more threads than they do now about balance rather than give us a reacharound and avoid the topic at hand coughCertainlyT mordecough.

Riot is not the same Riot for 3-4 years ago, and definitely not for the better. I cannot know how people can call the current status of this game more healthy or better than the game in the past.

Reference this thread for more: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/EEgu3LpI-i-can-no-longer-have-fun-playing-this-game

Chespin201311/16/2015, 2:23:05 AM2 votes

Too me the tank meta felt like the most balanced meta. Felt there was actual coordination involved and how I could do my job as a tank to help peel and cc the enemy team and I enjoyed having 40 min close games compared to the snowbally games that end within 10 to 20 mins. I don't get why they felt the need to buff the shit out of ADC's. The only thing they really needed help with was more item diversity and better build path. Now tanks feel like garbage, their items are nerfed too shit, and I can't do the job of a tank anymore. Sad times for one who enjoys tanks. I don't really feel like playing a game that focus' on balancing around pro play and alienates the playerbase in the process. Let the pros decide how to play the game, let us decide our way. I don't care if Riot makes changes to spice things up because lets be real we would get sick of the same stuff for more than 2 or 3 months anyway. However I don't want things that are fine too be changed all for the sake of Riot trying new things and to wait and see what happens by testing it on live servers. Use the PBE servers for testing game balance not live servers.