At least a bit reward for solo custom games.
Heya there. Surely nearly no one cares about it, since for them this isn't the "sense" of the game in the first place, ignoring those who did eventually like to do this, but...
Back then i enjoyed it more than normal games if my friends weren't around. You could play to your own pace, try out builds, learn champions, without having in mind, that you do in fact lose time you could have spend gaining some more IP to buy actual champions you need to learn again.
Ever since they decided they take out the rewards for playing solo custom games... Well LoL kinda died for me. If i have to apologize for having fun in that said game mode, i would do so, should that bring the rewards back. But seriously... The sole reason for taking it away from players like me is far beyond my grasp of understanding things. You could not make a decent amount of IP, you have a limit already as well, and you get reduced IP too. Also you do not have much of a challenge, since those bots are not as good as the co-op bots.
Everytime i try to explain this from my opinion, no one either wants to understand or isn't able to. It is not like i only play those games. But i loved the game for giving me the option to really play on my very own pace and don't waste my time. Now?
Yeah good luck... I was gone for nearly 3 whole years now. Just one or two times last year where i tried to get back into it, but instantly faced the issue why i left again in the first place.
Now a friend did bring me back a bit. And still i miss it. Probably won't stay long anyway, since the learning curve for me right now is too steep, since i have no other option to either play rushed in coop games where i don't have enough time to learn the champions and get the handling of items and what not. Or i have to play this so called "practice" tool game, which yields no rewards then, leaving me with the bitter and stale taste of "you are wasting time".
So by any means Riot.
The reason you told me back then is simply a bad excuse in my eyes. Surely very few might do that, but do you really think this would stop it? You even made things worse, since those botters are now in coop games, ruining the little bit of fun you could have there too.
For me it is clear. You ruined your game to me in my eyes. I used to love it. But with this slow progression in terms of freedom.. Surely some fanboy will yell at me now or some think i act up too much. Tho it is the truth. I stopped mostly because of this. And i also doubt i am the only one in the world. And it is not like i wouldn't have ever spend any money ont he game. More than enough to be honest. Even too much by now in my eyes, seeing how it gets spend.
You don't lose anything if you would bring it back. No you would even help some people, giving them not only more freedom, but also taking out botters as well in (even i admit it) the more important coop games.
Sure some run tools to automatically play the game on by... but the numbers barely will have changed. And it is not like they did hurt your game much either, since they play for themselves. And as far as i had you in my memory, you weren't the greediest bunch of devs. At least not back then. So money shouldn't be the issue either.
Well there you go. Now i wait for the hate spams and trolls to pick on this honest post.
Best regards, Dereth.