Why do people hate league so much???? (Discussion)

Katarina5AM·Jun 4, 2018·3 votes·2,810 views

WARNING THIS IS MY OWN OPINION, Please dont spam hate

So I don't get why people hate the "new league" so much. I like it more personally because it reminds me more of a sport abusing the best stuff in the game. So many players quit because "its not fun". League of legends isnt suppose to be fun, its a game that is consisted with 50% winrate. If you REALLY want to have fun, play with AI's in other games. Because you will always win against easy bots. Stop complaining that league is changing in a bad direction. I mean yes maybe Zoe was a bit too much or the redemption meta.

No one is even restricting you to play meta, I mean you can be at any ranks and still play non meta. If you are a silver full ap nunu support main that could be equal to a Janna platinum. There exist a meta, but it doesnt MEAN that you need to follow it. When it comes to skins its neutral that RIOT would want to create new skins in the most popular champions because they need to earn money, which is driving their motivation to own league of legends and own it.

I know theres alot of problems in the game such as toxcity, its honestly stupid alltogether but what do you really expect in a team game where one person can mess up the whole game. RIOT has tried their best to prevent toxcity ingame. We have a mute function for a reason. Trolling is an another problem but there are always people who will let you down. If you look at like this, theres a 50% chance that you will have afk or troller or rage quitter, but that also applies to the enemy team.

All the youtubers quitting league because "its boring", well thats great because if you are only looking for fun go to a game somewhere else with no competetiveness. Like in a game full of bots. LEAGUE is NOT supposed to be a game, its a sport accept it. I look at league as soccer match, theres alot of people that dont like soccer which is understandable. League of legends was not made for gamers, it was made for special kind of people that cant be defined. gamers are only looking for fun but the league gamers are trying to be better than the others.

Im too lazy to write more because i am literally in exams writing this. But those were my main points, please rant about it i want to hear what this community thinks of this.

14 Comments

AstorineJun 4, 20182 votes

Sports today would not exist if people did not find them fun or interesting.

Madsin25Jun 4, 20183 votes

The difference is this sport is 100% dependent on what the designers want to be good and bad. It changes on a bi-weekly basis.

They have no clear balance goal in mind. This is a science project not a sport.

AstorineJun 5, 20181 votes

True dat.

JamareeJun 4, 20182 votes

People don’t like change, people don’t like the changes, people have fond memories of the old game and what it brought, pleothora of other reasons.

If you are having fun, have fun and ignore what others say.

InTheoryJun 4, 20182 votes

I like it more personally because it reminds me more of a sport

Sometimes this is the reason why I don't have fun playing the game. There is some point when you get more experienced and trained in the game, gather knowledge and get better at everything, where the game stops being a game and starts becoming (e-)sports. I think there are different approaches of how players approach league of legends (e.g. game vs. sports) and every of these approaches has different reasons of what makes it unfun. It is literally impossible to design the game around all the different approaches which could be the reason why so many players feel unheared when changes are made that don't fit there approach.

Madsin25Jun 4, 20181 votes

I will never see league as a "sport" until it becomes balanced. Period.

I OTP Vladimir and let me tell you the game is NOT balanced. Not even fucking close.

OmManiPadmeHumJun 4, 20181 votes

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I will never see league as a "sport" until it becomes balanced. Period.

I OTP and let me tell you the game is NOT balanced. Not even fucking close.

The problem with your logic is that while some team comps are unbalanced, there is no way to truly balance 141 champions to have the exact SAME power/tankiness/whatever.

And if Riot stopped making champs and fixed all 141 to be within your compliance of "balanced", there would be people bitching that they aren't releasing enough NEW champs.

There is a reason this game has "counters". If a champion counters another, inherently there is some imbalance...right?

It would take them 50 years to balance each champion right now.

Hell, World of Warcraft has 12 classes (yes, you could argue that racials make each race another combination but whatever) and even they can't perfectly balance the classes. One is always a little more stronger in certain situations than others. That's what makes a game fun. choices.

DrCyanideJun 4, 20182 votes

You don't have to win in a game for it to be fun. Conversely, there are games you can win at and be bored to death with. Besides, to my knowledge targeting a 50% win rate has been here since the game started, it hasn't been a problem before and I'm not convinced it's a problem now.

Point: Fun lies in aspects that aren't always winning

There's at least a perception that the gap between doing well on non-meta champs and doing well on meta champions has grown. You put in more effort for less reward, and you feel even more burned when Riot says "no skins for that champion you're struggling so hard to master, not for 3 or 4 years." Making 2-3 skins per patch (on par with recent patches) they can give every champion a skin every 2 years. Put another way, shouldn't everyone be able to see their champion get more than 1 skin before they get tired of the game?

Point: non-meta players feel punished by Riot for playing Riot's game

OmManiPadmeHumJun 4, 20181 votes

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You don't have to win in a game for it to be fun. Conversely, there are games you can win at and be bored to death with. Besides, to my knowledge targeting a 50% win rate has been here since the game started, it hasn't been a problem before and I'm not convinced it's a problem now.

Point: Fun lies in aspects that aren't always winning

There's at least a perception that the gap between doing well on non-meta champs and doing well on meta champions has grown. You put in more effort for less reward, and you feel even more burned when Riot says "no skins for that champion you're struggling so hard to master, not for 3 or 4 years." Making 2-3 skins per patch (on par with recent patches) they can give every champion a skin every 2 years. Put another way, shouldn't everyone be able to see their champion get more than 1 skin before they get tired of the game?

Point: non-meta players feel punished by Riot for playing Riot's game

I agree with most of your point, but I DO think that Riot is trying to make champs more versatile. Lets take a look at the last few:

Camille - arguably high tier top laner AND jung Rakan and Xayah - double release. Never before done. Spicy. And probably the best bot lane duo right now. Kayn - upper tier. Not top, but always viable. Also can be played top Kaisa - Seen her played as ADC and jung successfully MANY times. Pyke - I have seen vids of him played as Everything but ADC with success. His gold sharing is gamebreaking if he can kill.

OurLestradeJun 4, 20181 votes

The most vocal haters are ones that play several hours a day, typically with a ranked focus. They've made the game part of their life and how they value themselves, so changes make them super angry. It's changed from a game to a lifestyle choice for them which is why when they reach their limit they vocally and violently reject it. The solution is to play casually and spread out your library - League still has its own magic to me after five years playing because I have other games.

Strawberry StudApr 13, 20191 votes

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The most vocal haters are ones that play several hours a day, typically with a ranked focus. They've made the game part of their life and how they value themselves, so changes make them super angry. It's changed from a game to a lifestyle choice for them which is why when they reach their limit they vocally and violently reject it. The solution is to play casually and spread out your library - League still has its own magic to me after five years playing because I have other games.

I don't play ranked, ever, and the game is still a repetitive 40+ minute dice roll to see if you got picked with 3/5 mentally challenged or 4/5 mentally challenged. The game isn't fun. It's boring, monotonous, and generally just bores the players into a coma. The champs have been narrowed down to a few select picks as being viable and all deviancy is met with harsh failure. You may have 19823091823409 champs to pick from, but if only 20 of them are viable, the game becomes a boring tedium of the same game being played over and over ad nauseam. League lost the magic years ago. It is a festering corpse of what it once was. A giant among gods, ever decaying into the wreck of obsolescence. League isn't a game, it's an addiction. No one plays for fun anymore. They just play to measure dicks. (Please fucking ban me so I will be freed from this madness.) Pro games are only interesting if you love asian cock. Same shit, different year. This game isn't interesting to the western audience anymore because it hasn't developed past the same fucking map in over a billion matches. If you like LoL, then I officially HATE you. This is my hate letter to Riot. You've done more than disappoint me. You've gutted the game I loved. Fuck you, Riot. I'd say I hope you die in fire, but you just peter'd out into meaninglessness. There's nothing left to kill, just a soul-less corporation of greed and sadness.

NetorareJun 4, 20181 votes

Because it actually USED to be a good game before riot sold their playerbase for the LC$ money.

Madsin25Jun 4, 20181 votes

I don't hate the game it is just extremely stale.

Snowbally games because of imbalanced runes is not fun for either side. The amount of times I just 1 shot people walking up to a bush is just pathetic. I really feel like I'm playing call of duty sometimes.

KillingWithLoveFeb 9, 20191 votes

so here is somthing. rito says you cant be banned for not playing the meta, but you can be banned by not communicating. so here is the catch, your teammates want you to play meta and normal thinks otherwise they report you and you get banned for not communicating with your team. but if you look at it the other way that means that you can get banned for playing off meta.

and btw youre tilting me by saying lol isnt ment to be fun. LOL is a compative game if you got to RANK. but if you want to play normals you shouldnt be restricted to playing nunu tank only. LOL is made to have fun yea maybe if you want to be a pro its a diffrent story