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Quitting after almost 9 years.

Best Fiddle··114 votes·18,185 views

After almost 9 years of playing, this season proves how badly this company has lost their minds. From hypocritical choices, absolutely garbage communication, and the amount of time it takes to reach a solution, is mind boggling. I'm convinced Riot has abandoned their previous balance methods, all for the sake of pro play, which explains why their viewers have been leaving.

I have had enough of this company not caring about the slightest in balance or even just coming out of the closet to express their QUESTIONABLE choices.

What good is a game, where it's main communication source (these forums) is less prioritized than outside sources (reddit etc..)?

This company has been dumbing their game down further and further, without even so much as addressing one, if not, the main problem. DAMAGE.

Then again none of this is surprising, since Morello is no longer in lead.

53 Comments

FrozenFrostFyre45 votes

Even pro's despise the meta and frequently talk about how bad it is streamers are quitting, before quitting league seemed like a meme that nobody ever did, but now the vast majority of my friends don't play anymore. I'm holding out to see next season but that's it if next season isn't fixing many of these major problems I think I'll be dropping the game forever.my suggestion is If you are done with league, then take a break and at least try next season before quitting for good.

Best Fiddle23 votes

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Even pro's despise the meta and frequently talk about how bad it is streamers are quitting, before quitting league seemed like a meme that nobody ever did, but now the vast majority of my friends don't play anymore. I'm holding out to see next season but that's it if next season isn't fixing many of these major problems I think I'll be dropping the game forever.my suggestion is If you are done with league, then take a break and at least try next season before quitting for good.

The problem isn't with just them going to supposedly fix things. It's the overwhelming amount of trust they have yet to regain after so many broken promises. You're right, they might fix stuff next patch who knows, but the problem for us long time players goes an incredibly long way. How are we sure they won't fuck up next patch somehow? Until they ditch their current balance methods, i won't take anymore chances placing my trust in this company.

FEEDER AFK TROLL22 votes

the problem is literally that Riot sold their company to a Chinese company called Tencent in 2015, that's probably when tencent hired ghostcrawler and the game started looking less like league of legends and more like a Chinese mobile app game with damage creep and centering any attention around high popularity champions in an attempt to cash out on this game / company they bought 3 years ago. in about 2 more years the game will be absolute shit most likely because all this complaining on forums will do nothing since this division of riot really has no control and just does what the new shareholders tell them, buffing favorable champs need to be stronger even though it makes no sense for the game and only for skin sales. If you didn't enjoy league from seasons 1-4 you just missed out simple as that, same with early world of Warcraft. the best of games become ruined with popularity because everyone has a sell out price...

MaverickXVII26 votes

Ghostcrawler happened?

hotarse23 votes

Wow, about time you realized this. No offense, but it does seem like it took you much longer than the average person to figure this out. At any rate, late is better than never. May your post league life be prosperous and fun.

QsoloPro15 votes

I'm with you, this game is complete bullshit since this "balance team" took over, it's turned into complete shit since like 3 years ago. Ironically that's exactly when tencent games took it over. Coincidence? I think not.

Deathfall11 votes

In the same boat. I haven't played the game in days and I don't intend to come back. Between their promises, lies, and horrible choices it's to the point where why should we play anymore? So many promises and stubbornness to admit they are wrong and actually fix things, as opposed to waiting for worlds to be over, to make the the game decent again. They just buffed Yasuo on the PBE after saying he needed nerfs and they think buffing tanks is the way to goo. No it is not. Nerfing the power creep and minion blocking would have been the answer to all of their problems. They just don't get it.

Let's also add in the fact that if your champion is not popular and gets attention yearly, it will take them 5 years to actually work on them and not even do good on it. Who cares anymore. Riot Games are all a bunch of lying imbeciles at this point.

5050BS2 votes

Yep

Zyra plants still die in .01s

OHminus7 votes

I heard infinity wars 2 plot involves the avengers traveling back in time to the first battle in NY

I wish I could also obtain a way to obtain time travel and move back to s4, which, imo, was the best season. It also means I can go back to high school and re-do college. Ah, the dream...

BigFBear6 votes

Who cares? Just go like a man and stop making a scene about it. We all know you will be back in some days/weeks.

ApexInTheCircle3 votes

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Who cares? Just go like a man and stop making a scene about it. We all know you will be back in some days/weeks.

You got people like me who lurk the forums and maybe play one game every month or every other month, then remember how shit the game is right now and go on another multi month hiatus.

SMOKE THIS5 votes

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T Captain T5 votes

Finally, someone who feels the same way I do. I've been playing since preseason 1 and I use to follow the pro scene all the time until season 5. I literally quit the game for a whole year, almost two until I came back. I also stopped watching LCS ever since. I wish this game would just be fun to watch and play again.

SMOKE THIS1 votes

They need to get a time machine. The state of the current game gives me so much nostalgia I now would prefer to play on the old map design.

T Captain T1 votes

Yes! My thoughts exactly. I want dominion and the old twisted treeline back as well. I personally think they've done a fantastic job for the most part with certain reworks. Skins are nice just as always. It's just the current balance state of the game as well as the constant changes. What made league great back then was it's simplicity. Now everything is too complex, games are too short, runes screwed everything over. Hopefully season 9 will clean up this mess.

Asamas4 votes

How does one decides to quit? At one point I didn't play for a month but never said I quit. Why should you quit? It's not an addiction after all. Just don't play so often do other things and so on. It's sounds to me as "Here I have been drinking for 9 years but now I will stop because the beer they are selling me makes me do crazy things. Not that I make the choice everyday to drink like a galon of it or anything, no". It doesn't seem right at this sense right?

Cavesloth10 votes

Um for most people League IS an addiction. That's why quitting is usually a big deal.

Asamas1 votes

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Um for most people League IS an addiction. That's why quitting is usually a big deal.

Well gotta go back to smoking pens (don't ask)

Methuzelah3 votes

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How does one decides to quit? At one point I didn't play for a month but never said I quit. Why should you quit? It's not an addiction after all. Just don't play so often do other things and so on. It's sounds to me as "Here I have been drinking for 9 years but now I will stop because the beer they are selling me makes me do crazy things. Not that I make the choice everyday to drink like a galon of it or anything, no". It doesn't seem right at this sense right?

eaxctly this, idk why the downvotes. Why would you need to "quit" a game you can pickup and drop, where there is nothing to maintain?

martincastillo24 votes

I 100% agree with you. They have reworked all the champions that I liked, removed all the items that I liked, this game is no longer fun for me. I will play League of Memories once it is fully playeable.

Glîtchy3 votes

next season they're rebuffing turrets and tanks so they're actually useful.

La Bello30 votes

tanks dont need buffs. damage just needs nerfing along with anti-tank options.

Death by Glamour4 votes

is this the first of... "wait for preseason"

yeah lets not

Spank the Fox1 votes

Bruh just wait, it’s only preseason, the game will be fixed then don’t worry

5050BS3 votes

Im like you. Been playing Since S2. Been very active on the forums. For the last year when I post its mostly negative things because the game has been going down hill.

The game balance ITSELF breeds toxicity.

I find myself looking at other games more and more but have stayed in the hope that Riot will fire the crap that is running the show and bring back the old teams. Im 99% sure that wont happen and I will finally move on if not to a MOBA to something else (not PubG/Fortnite)

TheDevice3 votes

nobody cares. No-one will miss your absence

jocomotion2 votes

So quick question. Is there going to be an auction for your name??? Cause I have a friend who’d love having that summoner name. Not to be rude.

Pika Fox2 votes

See you next week. Been playing just as long, and this is the best season yet.

EasternBladeStar4 votes

This fella only plays bot games on this account, LUL.

Pika Fox1 votes

Its called having a job and having little free time to dedicate to the more stressful portions of the game. Its still objectively the best season yet.

I7A6X2v22 votes

Cya, you will return back when they will give Fiddle his Visual & gameplay update.

The Pr0taku2 votes

I keep trying to give Tencent (Riot) another chance but: the sexist take on women in the new 'art', the perma imbalance, bugg and pathing issues, unclear things like the new client or honor, the patch notes not being the same for every language, the lying about design choices.. Ever since Tencent bought out riot's majority stock ~ 2013 its been them building stuff I hate, (riven was the 1st thing they did, the skanky women in torn clothes with no costs and tonz of skinz with OP dmg to make it popular...) its been smothering the good game made by the original developers. I guess just check in and see if it ever gets any better, though these days they take like 3 years to address a single bug.

Oh, and no 4th of July events? FK YOU TENCENT AND UR LUNAR BS. #madeincalifornia

P.S. Ghoscrawler is the herald of some company coming to buyout and mismanage your game. I watched him say nice things about bad design all over the World of Warcraft forums until it was unfixable as well. Now its just new copy pasted content meant to make you want some BS collectible crap for money... I hope they don't sue all the other MOBAs on the market.....

TlT1T1T1T1T1TlT2 votes

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After almost 9 years of playing, this season proves how badly this company has lost their minds. From hypocritical choices, absolutely garbage communication, and the amount of time it takes to reach a solution, is mind boggling. I'm convinced Riot has abandoned their previous balance methods, all for the sake of pro play, which explains why their viewers have been leaving.

I have had enough of this company not caring about the slightest in balance or even just coming out of the closet to express their QUESTIONABLE choices.

What good is a game, where it's main communication source (these forums) is less prioritized than outside sources (reddit etc..)?

This company has been dumbing their game down further and further, without even so much as addressing one, if not, the main problem. DAMAGE.

Then again none of this is surprising, since Morello is no longer in lead.

Welcome to freedom, friend.

I, too, quit. Last game was 1-31-2018. It has been fantastic.

I still come back here to see what "new" stuff is happening once a month, and noticed your post.

Anyway, ignore the addicts. UNINSTALL right away. Remove your favorites. Go out with friends Friday/Saturday/Sunday. Then poof, Monday rolls around and you don't even have a thought about this pile of wet shit.

To the addicts... I pity you and your failure.

ThıghConnoısseur2 votes

See ya wouldn't wanna be ya

Power Cosmic2 votes

I am done now too. I honestly regret ever playing.

Volocaust2 votes

close the door on the way out :)

Skins Project1 votes

Can i have ur account

(kappa)

Malak1 votes

I mean...they are fixing that in like 8.16 or 8.17

Sire Hippington4 votes

They aren't fixing it, they slap a band-aid on a searing open fleshwound and so far that's all we get, and sadly i have lost all trust in them to really do more than that.

Malak2 votes

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They aren't fixing it, they slap a band-aid on a searing open fleshwound and so far that's all we get, and sadly i have lost all trust in them to really do more than that.

I don't know what more you want them to do? They are literally nerfing damage across the board by nerfing offensive runes, then they plan to add resistances in a later patch

Sire Hippington2 votes

The amount of damage they take away is a joke compared to the amount of damagecreep we have by now. The keystone nerfs will hardly change anything as people will still get popped left and right and tank stats will still feel worthless once midgame hits.

Elkington VI1 votes

People should have seen this coming with the revamp of the 3v3 map, removal of Dominion and the lore changes, despite the large amount of protests to not make and/or revert said changes.

Most people just shrugged those things off, when they should have seen those changes as a sign of things to come.

Today's Riot is the same from 5-6 years ago in my eyes, it's just that their bad decisions have finally piled up and they're finally getting the backlash they should have received long ago from the playerbase/community.

Volocaust1 votes

oh wow still playing didnt last very long

Shiroe Okazaki1 votes

I believe they aren't even thinking to nerf damage anyway. If you look at A sol his DPS mage style was changed to burst to fit this meta. Riot actually believes in this damage meta. I don't wanna be too salty about it cuz theres some rioters that seem to care about the community like i think his name was Bazerka who gets on the boards from time to time and doesn't speak like a robot. But i don't think damage will be nerfed even if we ask for it. Balance team please.....

Swollwonder1 votes

K bye

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