League's Just Not Fun Anymore (For Me)
Before I touch in this, I acknowledge how many of topics there may be that's similar to this, of various salt levels. But this is just honestly a rant from someone who hasn't played in a long while, a few months, so it's not fueled by recent losing streaks/salty players/etc. I'm (along with quite a few other friends who stopped playing) just quite honestly someone struggling to see where the fun is in the game now that I've branched off to others.
From the days of S3-S4, the days of Team builder, times of easily befriending people compared to the salt-throwingfest that it is today. I have friends who I've met via League, and still talk to, for 4+ years. I can say that it was fun, REALLY fun, in the earlier days. Anyone that says it isn't any worse than it was back then is fooling themselves. Nowadays, its just a matter of Winning, and feeling minorly satisfied and a couple of virtual high fives amongst friends/teammates, or just either someone feeding purposefully/bad attitude/flaming each other for the losing team. Very rarely, do you see both teams saying GG. Maybe that's normal for "competitive based games" for some, but not for me. Its honestly just gross in how much the average player has to wade through to just get a few wins over a few games that are a shit throwing contest. It's just an unattractive abscess in a game you will inevitably lose in return for indulging in its gameplay, which leads me to my next topic.
League's gameplay, boy oh boy. It seems that the state of the game is fine tuned to however they want the professional level's tone to be. So many things are promised, some of them (purposefully) executed differently than promised. AKA; tank nerfs/reworking, ADC buffing/reworking, new items/reworks. Its all fine and dandy if you don't care about that all. But when a tank with moderate to low CS can single handedly outgun a fed ADC whilst laying on a torrent of cc, there MIGHT be something wrong. I remember when there were promises that tanks were going to become the front line meat shields that brings on the gaming definition of "tanky". ADC's become almost irrelevant in the event that either team's doesn't get fed, meanwhile a tank just has to accumulate assists to congregate HP. Its honestly so unbalanced and so biased to players that know how to exploit the quirks and weaknesses due to what the latest updates brings bring/fail to bring to the table.
(Also a minor side note; Don't make me mention the inconsistent RP bundles that are off by miniscule amounts than what skins require, collectively making you pay 10 to 20 $/£ more, accumulating to almost $100 in RP that you find yourself not needing but spending miscellaneously when you've put as much as I have into it.)
This might be a long rant and sorry for those who don't like such things. This is just a long time league player venting randomly after he's indefinitely taking a break. Thanks for reading.