Stop releasing champions and fix the client
I see Aphelios is coming out on 12/11. Senna came out on 11/11. Qiyana, Yuumi and Sylas came out earlier this year. Tons of development time invested in new content creation. That would be awesome if the client wasn't getting progressively worse. I've noticed the following things about the client lately.
1.) the new always signed in launcher actually takes more time to log in than the old type-in-your-password-every-time version. This means that when the bugged client crashes and i have to relaunch to get back into a game, it takes longed than it used to. I dont need to explain why that its a problem.
2.) Tons of cases of clients crashing in load screen, with no indication. You can be on voice chat with your team and they can load in game while your client is frozen. It feels like remakes are more frequent than they used to be.
3.) the screen lock bug is still happening all the time. the one where you cant unlock the camera from your champ.
4.) Everyone is complaining about worse lag or erratic frame rates for the last few patches.
5.) Accept/Deny game found bug. Sometimes the client will get hung up in the accept/deny screen after a game is found and accepted. you still hear the voice lines of champs being banned and picked, but the accept/deny overlay wont go away, and clicking either option does nothing. this ends in a dodge penalty, because you either have to close your client or let the lock in window for your pick elapse.
6.) load screen bugs. Often player level and champion mastery do not display properly.
7.) it feels like they are just squeezing as much money out of the player base as they can, while investing as little into the game's stability as they can.
riot- "as long as it loads up most of the time, people will keep buying skins. why fix it."
TL/DR **The client is really unreliable, the game is unreliable, and they keep releasing more stuff, instead of fixing it. **
this is in gameplay, because all of this affects gameplay.
PS.) its crazy that you cant turn off elemental map tints on summoners rift, and that you cant turn pets off in aram. It just adds visual clutter. Its fairly obvious that the reason you cant turn off skins or pets, is that that less people would buy skins if some people wouldn't see them. instead, its like I PAID MONEY SO YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT IT.