League went from a fun game to a sport were winning is all that matters

BeedozierKarthus·Feb 22, 2018·7 votes·689 views

I understand that league is a massive game and im glad riot has found success as a business, but as league has continued to grow and prosper im beginning to like the game less and less. The game is developing away from a "game" for fun, and toward a competition only setting were if you do not try your hardest (even in a normal match) you will be destroyed and reported by your team. Im not the greatest player and in fact im barely able to hit gold most seasons and that's why i loved being able to have fun in normal matches trying out funny builds and laughing it up. But nowadays its much harder to get the feeling of "fun" while playing league, now its all about how sweaty you have to be in order to win. It makes me quite sad, i miss the days of AP Alistar mid and a dfg running mid to top to bot and ganking, forget farming it was fun to just wq someone and actually do dmg, now its just trolling to do anything fun or of meta dn you can get banned if you do not play well. I Miss old league, fun to play league, troll comps with my friends on Saturday night league. I just hope that this will be read by someone who actually cares about the fanbase of league of legends, not someone who's paid to read it. I just want to vent, i log in now every day but i have no desire to play, i sit and the home screen for hours waiting for my friends to log in because i cannot find it in myself to queue up alone anymore, the game is dying in the eyes of those looking for a good time, but its growing for those who need to scratch that competitive itch, I hope in the future riot will start patching the game for solo que instead of LCS. And Ps. just fix top lane, its been the most f'd up lane for the better part of 3 years.

Whats your opinions?

15 Comments

Ben SwoIoFeb 22, 20184 votes

This game blows right now. You could suck bad and get carried by your bot lane. You could pick any of the numerous cheesy broken champs out there and climb. This season just promotes easy game play for the sake of an even playing field. I feel like skill level got tossed out the window.

BeedozierKarthusFeb 22, 20181 votes

I know it isn't possible, but it would be awesome if they had rotating game mods such as "Season 3 Items and Gameplay" and it was all the same as a random patch from that season, i would cry happy tears for that

I wear GivenchyFeb 22, 20183 votes

Play Fortnite. There's so many other games out there that are better. League is a sinking ship.

jadelinkFeb 22, 20181 votes

Well..go on then, but still, you're here, posting on these boards.. .and NOT playing some other game.

I wear GivenchyFeb 22, 20181 votes

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Well..go on then, but still, you're here, posting on these boards.. .and NOT playing some other game.

idiots could never imagine someone that can multitask. Stick to your joke of a server plz.

CrazFight Feb 22, 20183 votes

League has always been like this? what?

BeedozierKarthusFeb 22, 20184 votes

back in seasons 1-4 there was more variety in the game, fun items and ways to mess around. I understand removing some things to benefit user experience, but they watered the game down to a point where you have to be a slave to the meta if you wanna be useful

CrazFight Feb 22, 20182 votes

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back in seasons 1-4 there was more variety in the game, fun items and ways to mess around. I understand removing some things to benefit user experience, but they watered the game down to a point where you have to be a slave to the meta if you wanna be useful

O i thought u meant player mindsets. I actually agree riot has removed tons of off-meta diversity.

Riot is willing to sacrifice fun , for balance.

jadelinkFeb 22, 20183 votes

In seasons 1-4 the 'fifth pick' was ritually sacrificed to death by boredom and teammate abuse by playing support. The role sucked so badly it wasn't even fun to contemplate playing, and I would often dodge and close up league rather than play it. Most games were lost, rather than won, as half your team was effectively 'autofilled'.

The items are actually far more varied and diverse now (this patch has certainly livened up the rather stale mid mage builds). You ALWAYS had to be a slave to the meta to the extent you do now, if you want to be useful, you could always innovate, you still can, successfully if you're good at it (I still do).

Go and watch some of the awfulness of games of that era.

Oh, the other reason things seemed so fresh then, is that most players had bronze level skills, so anything SEEMED to work, as we hadn't worked out how to counter it, and put it in easy to read guides and so on.

I dropped league a couple of times, every time it got better. It still is, despite the obvious (in hindsight) bad mistakes.

BeedozierKarthusFeb 22, 20181 votes

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In seasons 1-4 the 'fifth pick' was ritually sacrificed to death by boredom and teammate abuse by playing support. The role sucked so badly it wasn't even fun to contemplate playing, and I would often dodge and close up league rather than play it. Most games were lost, rather than won, as half your team was effectively 'autofilled'.

The items are actually far more varied and diverse now (this patch has certainly livened up the rather stale mid mage builds). You ALWAYS had to be a slave to the meta to the extent you do now, if you want to be useful, you could always innovate, you still can, successfully if you're good at it (I still do).

Go and watch some of the awfulness of games of that era.

Oh, the other reason things seemed so fresh then, is that most players had bronze level skills, so anything SEEMED to work, as we hadn't worked out how to counter it, and put it in easy to read guides and so on.

I dropped league a couple of times, every time it got better. It still is, despite the obvious (in hindsight) bad mistakes.

i really appreciate your comment because it seems to be an honest opinion, i agree with some of what you said ( like getting auto filled essentially) but i feel most of that happened in ranked if you called your role in norms than you typically got it. Back in those days, autolocking was a problem as well though. I guess what im saying is that even though the game had more problems back then and it was less balanced, i had more fun because it felt like you could build any champ however you wanted and still be good. Like Lightning Shen!!!! But riot has done such a good job with the reworks for most champs that nowadays champs really are forced into "roles".

DeathBurstFeb 22, 20182 votes

Play Blind, ARAM, Twisted Treeline. Heck, even Normal Draft isn't that competitive, compared to Ranked. If you just want to chill and enjoy a fun game, there are still plenty of ways to do that.

ŚhunpoFeb 22, 20181 votes

Yeah, even in normal games it's literally "play the meta or you'll lose vs a team of full meta tryhards".

Lord of MathFeb 22, 20183 votes

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Yeah, even in normal games it's literally "play the meta or you'll lose vs a team of full meta tryhards".

Except for that game where you are off meta and the enemy team is also off meta.

ŚhunpoFeb 22, 20181 votes

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Except for that game where you are off meta and the enemy team is also off meta.

Yeah....the only time that happens is when gasp people want to have fun instead of winning :D

jadelinkFeb 22, 20181 votes

Just...play normals. People sigh when they see teemo sup in normals, but its...normal, there.

I sigh inside every time my friends want me to come and play normals, especially with mixed expectations. But you want funzy games, go play normals, you want to tryhard, go play ranked. Trust me, in s2-3 the meta fanaticism was exactly the same, and the rage was stronger (ah, pre tribunal days...i do miss the tribunal stuff a bit though).