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riot destroyed this game

Evilfreak··6 votes·2,680 views

Playing since season 2-3 and this is no longer league of legends anymore.I mean with all this changes with drakes and even changing the map scuttle crab runes,blast cannons,shut down bounty and every new champion are way out of the original game.The biggest jokes from reworks now zed jungle....Who even accept those changes?Do you asked the community for opinions ?I really starting hating playing this one. I really want to play the old league from season 3 even 4.The last good change was the trinket.Every new champion and rework of old champs are so out of balance getting one shot by everything.There are no longer the good old plays you can make.If you are trying to win your lane your and carry the game you bounty of gold is rising... Every single game of solo que is so toxic.Players are so frustrated and no one plays for fun.Their fun is ruining your game.Every few weeks is a new patch and you no longer cant adapt from changes. If Riot continues like this surely I will stop playing this. I wish I can play Season 2-3 again where everything was simple. I even see pro players that they are not enjoying this game anymore but keeps playing it because they get paid for it. From stats your game is played by people who started from season 2-3 thats more than 5-7 years.There are no new players.Who are start playing since now or there are but % is so low. Do you know what it means ? People no longer likes the game! I bet if you continue making changes the game will go down! So Please look and learn from the past.Slow down the tempo of changes.Bring back old drakes remove scuttles blast cannons bring back old runes trees and pages and stop making stupid unbalanced changes to champions and reworks. Its happening like WoW lich king every expansion after this was getting worse and worse same as league after season 3-4 the game is getting so out of the original.Also Those ap mids at bot (as adc) and supports on top are the top of the iceberg.Also Ranking system is so out of balanced too lp gains team balance and elo system games are coin flip.Also of leveling system.People no longer care if they getting banned for toxicity, because you can easily make a new account and Plays your fresh ranked games getting more lp than those who have 1000 games and they no longer be stuck at the same devision they were before.People who are not toxic and cares of their accounts are getting stuck in the same elo because of the negative lp gain and wondering why they not improve.Last season I was Diamond 2 I asked a high elo player How can I get master+ the answer was so simple.He told me to make a new account and to forget this one.I wont never be master+ with this one because I am getting less lp and losing a lot.This shocked me....I bet most of you are playing this game because there are no other multiplayer games you can play if they are.There are not enough players.In my opinion I am saying that if you are continue in this direction riot your game will be death soon! (I am sorry for my grammar). Wishing you all the best!

22 Comments

AeroWaffle5 votes

Frankly, that League of Legends has lasted as long as it has is already a pretty damn big accomplishment (just like with WoW). The interest of gamers is quick to lose and the popular genre is ever changing.

League continues to stay ahead of their direct competitors such as Dota 2. League has also managed to weather the battle royal craze pretty well considering how old it already was when battleroyal hit mainstream.

League MUST keep changing and adding more content to the game otherwise people will leave. A game that stagnates is a game that loses many of their active players whom play because they want to try out the new things.

Bijeesny2 votes

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League MUST keep changing and adding more content to the game otherwise people will leave. A game that stagnates is a game that loses many of their active players whom play because they want to try out the new things.

These changes also make people leave because the game is becoming hot mess the more riot is changing the game. Changes are good, but as long as changes actually improve the game....which riot failed to do.

Runes reforged didnt solve any issues old runes had except them being free and dumbed down. Which is both a bad thing when you think about it. Positional ranking...failure New client....buggy af New champs...overloaded cancers And there is prolly more....

AeroWaffle1 votes

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These changes also make people leave because the game is becoming hot mess the more riot is changing the game. Changes are good, but as long as changes actually improve the game....which riot failed to do.

Runes reforged didnt solve any issues old runes had except them being free and dumbed down. Which is both a bad thing when you think about it.

Runes reforged succeeded in making the choices interesting and meaningful. Old runes, not only were they just giant IP sinks that you had to invest in, but no one individual rune made any noticeable difference. Heck, even with all of them combined you would only notice the difference when you were looking for it.

In terms of game design, that's bad.

Positional ranking...failure

True, but there were several things that stuck such as Role preference. I don't think anyone wants to go back to the dark ages of pick order determines who gets what they want. Since then Riot has been poking about to try and find something that makes the pre-game experience better.

Teambuilder failed as did positional ranking. So they were removed.

New client....buggy af

The client has always been buggy. The old client more-so. The old client was built off of an old Adobe Air and Adobe Air functioned off of whatever internet browser was set as the default for the operating system, which for most people would be internet explorer (because they didn't go into the windows settings to change it). The client was basically a glorified internet browser.

Any problem that any browser type had would also manifest in the client. It was not a long-term solution in the slightest.

New champs...overloaded cancers

This has always been complained about since the start of the game.

Bijeesny1 votes

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Runes reforged succeeded in making the choices interesting and meaningful.

Interesting? Maybe. Heathy? Not so much. Runes bbeing meaningful brought more bad than good. Game got powercreeped because of them, and they also defined which champs will be good (cassio and ryze being bonkers thanks to s10 conq) and which champs will be bad (s8 conq was 1 of the reasons tanks were bad in toplane, removal of klepto made ez dogshit champ).

Old runes, not only were they just giant IP sinks that you had to invest in, but no one individual rune made any noticeable difference. Heck, even with all of them combined you would only notice the difference when you were looking for it.

Wow imagine that, people had to work and spare ip to get something, Jeez, what a horrible concept.

And runes not making noticeable difference was good because you could tailor them to your playstyle. Not like nowadays where in most cases taking any rune setup outside of standard one is just a bad decision example: excludind new conq, when was the last time you saw on assassins any other good rune setup other than electrocute + precision (2nd tree could vary, but at that point its no different than taking more resist of your vs ap and more armor if vs ad))?

True, but there were several things that stuck such as Role preference. I don't think anyone wants to go back to the dark ages of pick order determines who gets what they want. Since then Riot has been poking about to try and find something that makes the pre-game experience better.

Teambuilder failed as did positional ranking. So they were removed.

Oh thanks, another riot's failure to put on the list. Old system wasnt that gr8, but at least it didnt boost people to elos they dont belong because they abused it.

The client has always been buggy. The old client more-so. The old client was built off of an old Adobe Air and Adobe Air functioned off of whatever internet browser was set as the default for the operating system, which for most people would be internet explorer (because they didn't go into the windows settings to change it). The client was basically a glorified internet browser.

Any problem that any browser type had would also manifest in the client. It was not a long-term solution in the slightest.

My memory might not be that good, but I dont remember:

  • client deleting my custom runes
  • client not allowing me to create new runes
  • client not allowing me to pick champs because I cant see them in champ select
  • client not connecting me to team chat
  • missing textures in client (half of the client is just a black square)
  • client being slow af (which due to recent crashes i was getting made me missing 4+ mins of the game)
  • client clogging up my CPU
  • not being able to see friends list
  • getting messages my friends sent me couple of days ago which i didnt recieve back then

All of these things i mentioned above happened to me, or are still happening since season 8. NOT A SINGLE THING from this list happened to me in the old client. (to be fair, I started playing in season 3, so idk if client had issues before then)

This has always been complained about since the start of the game.

When I started playing, the newest champ was Zac, lucian, jinx,etc. Look at those champ's kits, and then look at Aphelios, Senna, Quyiana... now tell me which champs are more overloaded?

Evilfreak1 votes

Also I think there are so much more smurfs and boosters with new accounts because of the free runes...If you are talking for advantages.Actually back then people had only 1 account because you needed a ot of time to get ready before to start playing ranked games.Now people join ranked saying I dont care about the win its my smurf and lose your game...Sure there was advantage that if you are playing against people without.

Bijeesny1 votes

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Also I think there are so much more smurfs and boosters with new accounts because of the free runes...If you are talking for advantages.Actually back then people had only 1 account because you needed a ot of time to get ready before to start playing ranked games.Now people join ranked saying I dont care about the win its my smurf and lose your game...Sure there was advantage that if you are playing against people without.

That and the fact that it made people not having to play extra games past lvl 30.

In the past you had to play a lot of games past lvl 30 to be able to buy champs and runes. Sure, you could just buy tier 1 runes, thus spending majority of ip on champs, and go for ranked, but despite runes not being that meaningful, it still put you at a disadvantage, which made you lose a lot more. So be on equal footing, you had to grind a lot of games. And that lead to players having better gameplay experience.

Nowadays, because you dont need to buy runes + getting fuckton of BE due to new player rewards, after hitting lvl 30 you were more than ready for ranked. But in return those players are worse than they used to be due to not having a lot of experience.

it might just be me, but i noticed that from s8, players were significantly worse than they used to be. RR could be the reason 4 that.

Revech1 votes

the broken client is enough to make me want to leave tbh

DuskDaUmbreon5 votes

So...you hate the new changes. Could have just said that instead of the clickbait-y title.

The biggest jokes from reworks now zed jungle....Do you asked the community for opinions ?

Quite literally, yes. They literally asked what other champions people wanted to be junglers.

They're trying to increase diversity in the jungle (a specific request I've seen before) and add popularity to the role (again, another request) by adding new champions to it. They're not forcing them into the role and it's not going to be any of their main roles, it's just a side thing they're trying to promote and they'll kill it if they don't like it.

I wish I can play Season 2-3 again where everything was simple.

Things were simple back then because people were incompetent. High elo then was worse than low Gold is now, and many base-level mechanics you're expected to know now were considered esoteric, incredibly high skill things.

Bijeesny2 votes

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Quite literally, yes. They literally asked what other champions people wanted to be junglers.

Where did they ask that?

DuskDaUmbreon1 votes

On Twitter.

Evilfreak2 votes

Twitter ? Why not make a section in the client about that.There are people who not using that kind of social media.

Bijeesny1 votes

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On Twitter.

Which some of us dont use...nice..

Bulshlaka2 votes

gotta love the times when animation cancelling a champions ability was considered skilled

back then jungling was which champion can clear the fastest and do the most with the least amount of resources j4 with his terrain scaling sejuani same reason and shyvanna beaing god at clear speed and dragon control

i loved the days when nunu was viable as well when he could live in your jungle and take everything infront of your face with literally 0 things you can do about it

or the top lane meta of mundo and shyvanna eventually shyvanna dropping for renekton and then the meta devolving in if mundo dies only 4 times before lvl 6 he is in a good spot xD

or the mid lane meta of ori and ryze where they don't even interact with each other as both know that nobody can do anything

or the ryze E glitch that would 1 shot every champion that has a targeted dash that got fixed after he was reworked (this game breaking bug that was 1 shotting jax and lee was in the game for over an year (he was still a 45% win rate champ xd even if he could gun down whole teams by facesmashing the keyboard))

or when the dodge stat was still a thing and jax would reach close to 100% dodge and that it worked on fountain making physical based champions that rely on auto attacks to deal damage weaker than minions vs jax

oh the good old times where things were so simple and good and people being dead ass terrible at winning games making such beyond broken strategies questionable if they are good at all xD

Bulshlaka2 votes

plenty of other games out there

do us a favor and just leave now

Evilfreak2 votes

Sure I will leave soon dont worry.(told about the toxic community) Here is perfect example.

SweetShiroNeko2 votes

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Sure I will leave soon dont worry.(told about the toxic community) Here is perfect example.

And you will get first banned when you point out the faults on Riot before people like him that always whiteknight Riot flaming those who doesnt like bad changes in the game.

Evilfreak1 votes

Yeah I know I will be banned for this post.Sadly...

Bulshlaka3 votes

oh look someone with an original opinion oh wait

Bulshlaka2 votes

did i hurt your feelings or what?

if you think im toxic you won't survive the real world

Evilfreak2 votes

Not at all.You dont even understand what I even mean with this post.When you cant say something useful you can be quiet listen and learn and try to understand what people are saying.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

If this is what a game looks like when "destroyed" then I would love for every single game i love to be "destroyed"

ProphetOfDraven1 votes

If you really were a season 2-3 player you would know Zed was designed to be a jungler in the first place.

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