This game is nothing when it has poor gameplay

Riot you have had a winning combination of a game since it's release I give you full credit for how amazing that is. But what you have seem to be forgetting for awhile now that a large part of your success was the fact that players loved the core game play of League. You are adding all these new features now such as new loot system, new rune systems, honor, etc. but what you are continuing to abuse and destroy is the core game play of this game.

I am by no means even close to pro at this game or know much about balance, but what I can tell you is this. I have played this game since season 1 (although on and off until season 2). Never in my life have I disliked the game until this season. I have disliked metas, disliked champions and some changes. But none of those changes or poor metas made me hate the game. I deep down knew you would fix the meta problems and champion problems (well for the most part) so I would just stick it out and play the game. But honestly... I legit actually hate the game now.

I started to get annoyed last season with your jungle changes. Season 7 is probably the least amount of League I played since like season 2. I still played a lot compared to a lot of players, but less than hard core leaugers and my old self. I took a few months off last year because I was a little sick of the game. But did I hate League? No.... I still loved the game just needed a break from it.

But starting from preseason until now I can say I absolutely hate what you have done to this game. I find no joy from it anymore. As someone said on these boards or I reddit winning just feels like relief that you didn't loose lp, not joy just relief, and losing feels fucking terrible. The only time I even have close to an once of fun is when I play with friends and even then half the time I can't stop bitching about how dumb the changes you have made are.

Literally team fights now last maybe... 2 seconds. Games end in what less than 30 mins 80% of the time? You ruined jungle at the start of the season, top feels terrible to play, and now adc feels terrible. Only thing left is support and mid now.

Carrying games 1v9 is harder than ever in season 8. That was always a core draw to playing this game for me. I didn't matter if your team as doing bad as long as you got enough gold and played better than the enemy. But now it's more about playing around your teammates and praying you don't have the worst player in the game on your team. I also don't remember a time I felt team comps mattered this much. It used to be that in low elo it didn't matter wtf you picked. It still doesn't compared to high elo but.... a fuck ton more than it used to. Like yea.... having a shit comp back in the day wasn't a great idea. But by playing well you could easily offset the comp disadvantage. But now.... it's so fucking hard to compete against Superior team comps a lot of games I rather just forfeit than actually play knowing we have such a low probability chance of winning.

Never have I heard so many pros and streamers bitch about this game. Yea... they have bitched about roles, metas, some change you made. But streamers are literally calling your game trash and meaning it. Hell.... even Faker has bitched about the game lately lmfao. That's how you know this game has gotten bad.

I only write this because I love this game at its core. I hate that I have wasted so much of my life playing it (and having nothing to show for it) but I have also had some amazing times playing it and have spent so many years playing it I still feel that connection. But now when I login I go to queue up and get overwhelmed with sadness realizing I don't actually want to play because of how boring it feels to actually play. So most the time I just end up logging off lol.

I feel like you guys aren't even aware of how unfun the game is. Like..... I find it super cool that you are making ranked changes for season 9 and some of which I bitched about and asked you to add back in season 3 & 4. But.... with how shitty it actually feels to play this game now I am not excited at all about season 9 because no system you add to the game will make it fun if the core game play is as shit as it is now.

I feel bad for new players who started playing the game now. The game is such a shell of what it once was.