Is the game getting more competitive and less fun ?

Hello guys i'm playing since season 2 and i really think the game is getting less fun but being an extremly competitive game. This is a thread for everyone and new players are welcome to talk about it !

(i'm from EUW so if my english isn't always right, i'm sorry !).

Let's talk first about the definition of a game. First of all a game is an entertainment were the main objective is to have fun ! okay there will always be a competitive aspect of it and it's important too.

However don't you feel that Riot is removing a lot of funny aspects of the game ?

• Games are becoming Shorter and when you take the advantage early it's over. If you remember well 3 seasons ago we had a lot of 45min - 1h10 games. You could be strongly losing the game (example 3-14 at 10min) but if you played well you could always win a lost game at the beginning. Now it's getting more difficult.

• They promised us skins for maps during events. Hopefully they did something for a winter map. But halloween ? and others they could do much more with all the money they did over the years... Some ''skins'' are just a change for minions and turrets... comon can't you do better ? Old riot has done better with less money...

• Riot want us to play the charcaters the way they want. In the past they let us the choice to play many characters AD or AP (Malphite ad, Shaco AP, Yi ap etc...) they are kiling those funny aspects of the game...

• Riot seem to want to destroy the diversity of playing. With the old runes and masteries system, we were all different in game. we had each one our identity and playstyle.

• Adding the aspect of Unique Items... Who didn't try shaco with 6 sunfires capes in the past and how funny it was for the players and even for the ennemy team (they were all like wtf and laughing about it. It was funny as hell). However we must agree that unique items make the game more balanced

• During some seasons Jungle was really fun to play and the items were nice and had a big impact on how you played jungle, now they don't seem to have this much impact... remember Feral Flare ? that was really funny !

• The game is getting more balanced for the e-sports aspect of it but they are neglecting the solo aspect of it. The result is that if you don't have a team which can't communicate and act to counter a character it can be really problematic even at high levels. Dont forget that a team which can communicate with discord, skype, mumble will always play differently than teams in a regular 5v5 without any ways of communication. Unbalanced characters aren't really the same in those different ways of playing. Majority of the players mostly play « alone » and i think that aspect of the game is being lost by riot.

I don't know how other players feel about all the changes riot has done.

I really think they made some really good changes and improvements, but i think they neglect a lot of players :

I Mean couldn't they make a new 5v5 centered in the aspect : i want to have fun ?

For example a Classic LOL 5v5 without unique items or with old characters (yi ap, malphite ad etc...)

You have ''3'' kinds of players :

Have fun / Solo Q / E-Sports

I really think since that they discovered that e-sports was a good way to make much more money they decided to center the game on the competitive apsect of it neglecting the funny aspect of the game. This game was born and became famous because it was fun not because it was competitive never forget that people !