Blue Essence (I'm late, I know)

FIRST, the TLDR is at the bottom.

I know I am 4 months late most people have probably moved on but I wanted to address this anyway.

I returned from 1 or 2 seasons of inactivity. I started getting turned off when the hextech system was introduced, i return to this.

Back when hextech was introduced i didn't like what that suggested would happen, we went from simply earning IP to a more complex IP, blue essence and orange essence? i forgot if it was orange. I started playing league for one thing, league. I wanted to play league and every now and then buy a new champ using the IP i accumulated from my games without paying attention. it was simple, it worked. I also spent hundreds on the game because I genuinely enjoyed it and gifting random champs/skins to friends was fun (i had a few gift wars).

My spending stopped when hextech game in, my whole group of friends didn't care for it. As the old saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. In this case, you made it more complex, why? money.

Then mastery 6 and 7 came out. Was it based on regular play and good performance? kinda.... but we have to make use of this fancy new system no one cares about so instead of awarding mastery 6 and 7 for performing consistently well we will give shards for S games and they can craft it with fancy animations and feel 'progression'. To this day I have level 5 masteries max and I have maxed out S shards for my main champs. I get plenty of S ranks, i dont need to make my own mastery. When someone shows off the lvl 6 or 7 mastery i proudly show off my lvl 5 cause let's be honest, 6 and 7 mean nothing.

At this point I left. I returned and find my Ip is replaced with blue essence.... why? was IP broken? could you not increase the drop rates if you wanted to give players more? nah, it earns more to add a gambling system/lootbox system.

I just dont need it. I don't care for it. I come home from work to play a game and then go to bed, i have 0 interest in more and more aspects and systems i have to learn. I will learn new champs and gameplay mechanics but i have no interest in learning your mini-game within the game. I just have a huge stack of shards and when i open a chest i get like 200 BE and 6 shards (made up the numbers) so after all that i get... 200 BE. All i want is to earn as i play. I don't want to think about more shit outside of the game itself. This is part of the reason I switched to other online games TBH....

TLDR:

1. Riot took a simple system and made it more complex for no plausible reason other than money.
2. Masteries are.... well not masterful.
3. Blue essense is so slow, it feels wrong. I don't earn it gradually and feel proud. I just always have small amounts of blue essence and feel like I dont have enough. It makes me want to buy characters i want to play with real money instead of ingame currency although, i believe that is the entire reason Riot changed to blue essence.
4. This feels like gambling. Simple as that. You added more systems with random elements and chance elements which give you more value but not necessarily what you want. I have champ shards and skin shards i dont care about and the champs i want are still full price. This encourages me personally (and probably others) to just buy the champs I want because i never seem to get them randomly.
5. Let's be honest, Riot reminds me of a car salesman or a bank. They dont want to say 'you get a car' they have changed to try sell you more. "We give you blue essence, more experience AND you even get SHARDS, if you buy now you can get 20% off AND if you perform well you may even get a champ shard". Overall you earn SO MUCH MORE than you used to. You know what? i dont care. I don't want your 'assets' that can be converted to BE or redeemed for cheaper purchases. Just give me slow payouts of IP or now BE.

Regards, Grumpy old player.