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Dear Riot, your game probably isn't for me and I guess that's okay

Mommy Elise·11/8/2016, 7:22:35 PM·80 votes·3,591 views

I'm honestly not sure where to put this. So I'll throw this here. It's... a bit of a rant, I suppose, but one trapped up in the vestments of an honest discussion/letterpiece.

Today, I saw that Normal Draft is being removed from most servers. Luckily, my server (NA), is not affected, yet, but I have no doubt with the statement "In an ideal world we'd like to retire Normal Draft in all regions." that eventually, Normal Draft will come to an end. And with the removal of Team Builder, and no discussion about replacing Normal Draft, this most likely means that our non-ranked options would then be custom games, alternative maps, vs AI, or blind pick, none of which have ever appealed to me.

I play this game a lot with friends. Many of my friends are nervous about or dislike ranked for some reason or another, but want to retain the trappings of competitivity with draft mode. Many (myself included) hate mirror matchups, the "First come first serve" mentality of blind pick role calling, and the less competitive playerbase. Many of these players are also people that I would not necessarily want to play ranked with for various reasons (Some are ranked enough lower or higher than me that duo queueing with them would be impossible. Some are more laid back and dislike ranked. Some I mostly or only play with with a group of other people, and while I like doing that in an unranked environment, I very much dislike doing that in a ranked environment where it often feels like taking a gamble with your mmr/lp unless all of you have practiced.)

This, in addition to recent jungle changes, which, from what I've seen and heard, do not appeal to me (I feel like it's not a good sign when my attitude has become "How can I minimize and survive these changes" rather than "Oh boy, these changes look awesome!") in the slightest, both camp changes, respawn changes, removal of smite buffs, and of course, plants.

These recent Riot decisions have led me to stumble upon a probable realization. I'm most likely just not your target audience or playerbase. Maybe I never was. I understand that I am probably in the minority on a lot of these issues. And I'm reasonable enough to realize that maybe I'll love all of these things. And who knows, maybe I misinterpreted the part on Normal Draft, or Riot has some sort of super duper special awesome draft planned that'll be 10x better. But with the facts I have right now, I don't think it's too unfair that I've come to the conclusion that this game really just isn't for me anymore. Maybe I've changed. I know it has. And it sucks, honestly, seeing a game you love change in ways that you just don't find fun anymore, or take out bits of itself that you enjoyed above all else. I'm sure that a lot of reworked champion mains get me there.

I'll be playing for a while more. I still have some climbing I want to do, I still have some goals this coming season that I'd like to at least try for, but I'm starting to get the feeling that it might be close to time for me to move on from this game.

I dunno. I feel like this is just a big whine post, but I felt like putting it out there. I guess with all the complaining and people being up in arms recently over changes. I feel you. It sucks. But I guess at some point maybe it's just time to sit back, try it out, realize there's nothing we can really do to change it, and then, if those changes really aren't okay, maybe it's time to realize that we may not be the target audience, and move on to something that suits us better. That's my plan.

45 Comments

Mira Arya Enthe11/8/2016, 7:25:40 PM23 votes

Agreed. I don't even need to say more. The removal of normal draft would be the worst thing ever for the game period. And the jungle changes make me feel like "Well... how can I play around this bullshit?"

Vesemir11/8/2016, 7:59:34 PM10 votes

removing normal drafts will increase the toxicity in this game. Flame and rage will start at champ select...

LGBTCute11/9/2016, 7:39:31 AM4 votes

So my options are now:

  1. Dealing with a team who STARTS the game tilted because they didn't get their role? (A toxic waste of 30 minutes.)

  2. Playing ranked. (Also a toxic waste of 30 minutes.)

In the words of Trundle:

TIME TO TROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Trundle

CrazyBear198711/9/2016, 3:01:51 AM2 votes

Okay

i mean your free to do what you will, nice to know your opinions and reasons for leaving.

Bye

Choaru11/9/2016, 1:14:38 AM2 votes

I've played around on the PBE, played Jungle as well as Support, so I'll throw my input on here.

ADCs are going to struggle hard this season. Nobody wanted to play them on the PBE because unless you had a godly support, you know how to kite like a god, or simply the person doesnt 100% understand how to play the champ, you were gonna get fucked hard.

Unless Normal Draft is announced and confirmed by rito to be removed in like a week, I'm not gonna sweat about it. Not good to get yourself worked up or upset over something that isn't gonna happen in awhile.

The poor jungle...the changes to birds and Krugs are absolutely atrocious. I play Shaco, and dear fucking lord these things are very hard to clear early game. At this point I just recommend skipping these two unless you have some type of AOE skill.

Despite hating the plants at first, once I played many games with them,I found that they are actually really nice. This is personal opinion though u-u

wiggywonka11/9/2016, 1:59:22 AM2 votes

Stop crying and being overdramatic just enjoy the game

Lord Galvatron11/9/2016, 6:18:09 AM2 votes

Removing draft pick is quite peculiar. I would of imagined them wanting to remove blind pick instead. Hopefully this won't end up like the Dynamic Que fiasco and have millions of people leave the game to go to something like Overwatch.

He4rtkiller11/9/2016, 12:31:15 PM2 votes

I play Normal draft more then anything else in this game. High queue times are annoying sometimes but I would almost always chose higher queue time with option to select position i want to play before low queue time and to have to fight for the position i want or to get stuck with something i do not enjoy playing or even worse to get people trolling because they didn't get what they wanted. Normal draft needs to stay! Make it work RIot! Better remove blind and keep draft!

Flaherty11/8/2016, 7:34:49 PM1 votes

Where did they mention removing normal draft?

M00nKryzalid82411/11/2016, 7:43:07 PM1 votes

This was well though out. I respect your opinions.Whatever path you take I hope you will have a good time.

MiTsuO Akai11/9/2016, 1:16:59 AM1 votes

Well... I on the other hand HATE the new draft mode. BRING BACK TEAM BUILDER!!!

AkabaneKun11/9/2016, 10:04:20 PM1 votes

That's what ppl get for not giving two fucks and letting riot remove a 4 years old map mode, they will just remove and remove more content since that way they can waste more money on the skin department and LCS.