Something is really wrong with the state of this game..

Hyp3rfocus·12/28/2017, 10:56:33 AM·192 votes·8,472 views

https://imgur.com/2p0KzFO

The top page of the gameplay section is filling up with unhappy people about the entire state of the game. I know that people look at the boards and think that it's a low % of the total community, and thus complaints shouldn't be taken too seriously.. but this isn't normal.

Since season 3 I've been here, and I've never seen so many people complain about the game as a whole. Yes, of course people will complain about OP champs, OP items, ranked matchmaking, etc.. but never the entire game.

These changes are very unwelcomed.. and I do respect trying new things out, and trying to make a great game better. At the same time though, I think you have a mild obligation to keep certain aspects we enjoy, or at least change them slowly and one thing at a time. Its safe to say that all these new things were thrown at us all at once, and it's easy to deal with 1-2 things you don't like, but it's almost not worth it to deal with 5-6 things when there are so many other games available to play. It's easy to ignore the few people quitting the game, or protesting certain things, because of how many other players there are... however, from all my forum surfing, the amount of people I see defending these changes, and especially with logic or reason, is slim to none.

I wish you wouldn't look at us as customers, and more like family or friends.. the majority of us who are still here, want to see this game work, but it's a two-way street. There is no shame in saying "Ok, we tried something out, it didn't work, let's revert it back to normal and work on another idea." Sometimes I feel like Riot becomes too proud to say they made a bad move, and instead of owning up to it, they drag it out, hoping that we'll like it one day, and eventually when our hatred for it reaches a certain level they finally fix the problem before they lose thousands of people. (cough dynamic queue)

Anyways, I hope the forums don't go unnoticed just because it's a low % of the community. In a way, our opinions should mean something a little more because we take the time out of our day to come here and post something that will help the entirety of the game. Whether it's complaints, or suggestions, or even memes.. we post here to make the game better or to bring more enjoyment from it. Don't ignore us :^)

TLDR: Too many people unhappy with current state of game. Riot needs to man up sometimes, admit they made a mistake, fix it quickly, and work on the next big thing. The people who are still here playing, are proving their loyalty to Riot, and league.. and just want everyone to be happy in the long run. Oh, and don't ignore the forum peoples :)

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165 Comments

Marshbouy12/28/2017, 2:00:36 PM82 votes

The top page of the gameplay section is filling up with unhappy people about the entire state of the game.

this isn't normal.

lol

Hyperfocused12/28/2017, 11:00:12 AM45 votes

Well said. I personally am not satisfied with how the game is being managed at the moment either, and just wish it didn't feel like we're talking to a brick wall.

Winek Chan12/28/2017, 11:49:36 AM29 votes

Thank you for your post.

Chill Vibez12/28/2017, 11:05:57 AM15 votes

#Forumslivesmatter

lol good post

Spank the Fox12/28/2017, 5:57:20 PM14 votes

Alternatively, this forum acts as an echo chamber and people, rather than commenting on the relevant posts to reduce spam, make their own threads because they feel like they have something new to broadcast?

It’s literally the same fucking thing as all the Zed, Lee, Yasuo complaints, the “wow i just realized Rengar, all of a sudden, feels really weak despite getting no recent changes” spam we had 2 months back, all the “BE feels bad” posts, every anti ADC post, and on and on and so forth.

This place is a complaint circlejerk fuckfest. The new trend “LoL feels awful to play” on a forum that does not even contain .000001% of all players is not representative. Riot is not free from all the critism this preseason, but “something is really wrong with the game bcuz 10 boards members said so” is not right either.

Vayne ReMiiXeD12/28/2017, 11:42:49 AM14 votes

they wont read this they just stopped caring about us on the way to the top

D4M2X012/28/2017, 11:05:13 AM13 votes

im not satisfied with league either. my reason being is janna kog lulu twitch and premades. if a certain champ becomes meta, like Gnar , i either ban it or switch roles until it gets nerfed. KogMaw Lulu Twitch Janna straight up make me want to quit cause they are zero risk infinite reward champs all in one lane that just happen to be duoQ more often then not. (i am fine with janna/lulu ASLONG AS THEY ARENT PAIRED WITH A 1 ITEM POWERSPIKE HYPERCARRY.)

lulu/janna turn hypercarries into 2v5 turret divers... ADC is my best role and i just handicap my team by choosing it cause not only do i not play kog/twitch/vayne, but im making it so my team doesnt have a duoQ bot but instead have a soloQ ADC+autofilled support VS a premade...

this is the first time in 6-7 years where i think that SR isnt worth playing. i just wish teambuilder and dominion were available in this shitty timeline of league, arams straight up bore me unless i get a champ id pick in ranked and i cant be fucked playing against twitch kog lulu janna or premades anymore, id play flexQ if i wanted premades in my games, but i dont. i just hope all 10 players in my "soloQ" games are solo and ban the shit i mentioned.

Centralize12/28/2017, 11:09:24 AM10 votes

Game sucks now, find a new game now.. u heard it from me first

Sona Ping12/28/2017, 11:54:20 AM9 votes

{quoted}

**Something is really wrong with the state of this game.. **

https://imgur.com/2p0KzFO

The top page of the gameplay section is filling up with unhappy people about the entire state of the game.

Like, over the years, I've seen post with multiple times the amount of upvotes saying Blitzcrank should be deleted from the game (nothing was wrong with Blitzcrank and nothing changed) or other champions. I remember top posts titled, I quote, "Fuck [champion]" with no reasons or context inside. I wouldn't put too much stock in upvotes.

Banana 18 Bro12/28/2017, 12:46:37 PM8 votes

I started playing ranked again, usually I don't during preseason or just play 1-2 games every 2-3 weeks, but after I've seen the current game state and the meta, I completely agree with all the posts about it here.

First blood, first tower are pretty much winning the game. I completely agree now that that the bot lane that wins (and I'm not tlaking about good stats) are winning the game. Kind of annoying how this game turned out and I really hope someone with power at Riot, and not the support staff and developers, take some responsibility and raise some voice. Because if this shit keeps going on, people will really start clicking uninstall soon and won't consider coming back.

ModAcademy Kayn12/28/2017, 12:18:11 PM6 votes

This is nothing new, has happened before, and will keep happening. This is extremely normal, and I've seen no difference between the last seasons and this one.

AAAStriker12/28/2017, 8:36:30 PM6 votes

I don't really agree here. I think that Riot is much better about communicating with its player base than a lot of other companies. Look at the competition for League for example, Smite has a terrible community with bad devs, and Dota 2 is Vavle and valve never communicates with anyone. I think what Riot has built is great, and I support them trying new things, even if its a bit overwhelming at times. At least they aren't Hirez

Tibold12/28/2017, 4:58:24 PM6 votes

Personally, I enjoy the new season. Is it just me?

SURG1CAL12/28/2017, 11:07:42 AM6 votes

towers are broken damage is too high essence sucks .we've been saying it for so long they just don't care about anything but profits

hi im seb12/29/2017, 8:20:44 AM5 votes

It is the first time since I've started playing League that I'm taking a break from the game not cause of tilt but because of he game itself D:

AirKingNeo12/28/2017, 11:44:56 PM4 votes

Who knew having an extremely biased dev team who refuses to actually do their job might make people mad?

Who knew having an extremely biased king who refused to help his people and let them starve might have gotten him executed?

HonestJohnTheCon12/28/2017, 12:39:52 PM4 votes

Hoping Riot answers the community after break.

Seriously, it's better to get one of their B.S. scripted answers than nothing.

Prestige Eve12/28/2017, 7:17:39 PM4 votes

{quoted}

There is no shame in saying "Ok, we tried something out, it didn't work, let's revert it back to normal and work on another idea." Sometimes I feel like Riot becomes too proud to say they made a bad move, and instead of owning up to it, they drag it out

I feel like this perfectly sums up Riot's mindset since their inception, the difference back then being that they never forced out such massive changes at one time. They will see the community universally agree on how bad an upcoming change in the works is but Riot will force it out anyway. People will continue expressing how bad it was and how right they are, but Riot will double down on it anyway. Let's take a look back at Kalista's creation for an example, shall we? This was way back when the ADC issue was actually becoming a thing and the community first started talking about them as a problem. Riot saw us point at how badly ADCs were starting to crush melee champs, how the mobile ADCs had going top lane handicapped in their favor, etc. ...and what did Riot do? They went on to make a champion with permanent mobility as her passive at zero the cost. The community went batshit crazy over it when she hit PBE and shouted at how broken that was for any champion... then riot doubled down on it... then they released her... then she dominated games... then she was forced to get nerfed into the ground...

Riot doesn't like admitting they made mistakes...

Xayah ReMiiXeD12/28/2017, 11:45:15 AM4 votes

After all the complaints about everything else, I wouldn't mind the old ranting about 1-2 champions.

This current season seems to be a mess.

Aùtistic Lux12/29/2017, 11:29:59 AM3 votes

Riot been fking up with the game since season 4. They never care about what the player wants. They never give you the right to choose, as an example, Dominion, even though there was a minority who liked playing it, they still removed it. It doesn't bring any harm leaving it there. But they still did what they want. Same thing with the Old Summoner's Rift. My hands got tired of trying to let them know that they should give us an option to choose which one we want to play with. And as you can see it's like I was talking to a wall. The legacy client too, I always prefered it and I kept writing in the boards to let us have what we want. An option. Yet they didn't leave it. And last but not least, the changes of the runes and masteries that were working perfectly fine. Im starting to feel like there's no voice to the players. Especially the minority. Im not asking to not do changes but at least give us the option. Seriously I can see that the runes ones is impossible to work with 2 systems. But the old map and old client is really possible. Stop forcing things on us. Give us the right to choose.

GhostShell12/28/2017, 8:29:13 PM3 votes

This is probably the first time i've used the forum boards besides an lfg a week or two ago. But I figured i'd say something. I've been with League since pretty much when Olaf was the newest champion. (Wish I was kidding.) Going from LP to this whole "Blue Essence", "Disenchanting" system with loot capsules and the latter; is just blatantly stupid. Season after season, Riot as been doing more to squeeze what they can out of people money-wise. Now it's $10 or sell your soul to league for a week just to buy a champion. Oh - thanks for winning a game today, here's like 50 blue essence. Are you kidding?

Jezbo12/29/2017, 5:24:40 AM3 votes

Yeah, losing a game is fine but not when you get stomped in every aspect because of broken snowbally champions (Katerina) or terrible match making (unranked vs diamonds).

But wins also feel unsatisfying because half the time you aren't impacting the game and one of your enemy laners fed your team. Yasuo proceeds to take every tower in every lane and you just watch him win for you.

Garbage state right now.

warmcorntortilla12/29/2017, 10:27:26 AM1 votes

Uhhhh I'm pretty sure not only have I seen the gameplay boards looking pretty much exactly like that 24/7, 365, I am pretty sure I've read several iterations of this exact post in the past, claiming that they have Seen It All and Believe Them, It's Never Been This Bad Before.