Open Letter to Client Developers

I want to keep this short and sweet, especially after the game I just played.

Where I was probably reported for being AFK.

After sitting in base, disconnected, for 8 minutes.

Because my loadscreen sits at "100%" for 10 minutes and then my team forfeits.

Except for this time I thought I'd outsmart the client, and just close and relog and reload.

And it took over 10 minutes to even do that because the login screen wouldn't open.

And then I loaded in one small percent at a time.

I understand it's because I have a very old, possibly bogged-down computer.

But I also have a child on the way.

And a new house with a decently-sized mortgage.

And new laptops are a luxury my family can't afford if we want to eat, and pay our bills, even though I use my laptop daily, 8 hours a day, to work a full-time job from home. I really could use a new laptop for work alone, actually.

Can Riot, as a company, understand that we all cannot afford gaming laptops?

Or even new laptops, or refurbished laptops for that matter, as desperately needed as they may be.

Please unburden and lighten the client, so that I don't have to brace myself in fear every time I load in to a game. It is noticeably bigger and takes up much more memory and CPU than previous versions and makes me sad that I can't enjoy the fullest a game I've been playing since 2015.

Some notes, for comments I can forsee:

• I have considered just not playing the game, to save both myself and my teammates grief, but is that really a business strategy Riot wants to back? "If your computer can only handle our game about 75% of the time, just stop playing because the other 25% ruins it for others."

• I have also tried to save for a new laptop because yes, I need mine for work and that is much more important than video games, but even then, through the best of planning, that money often gets used for other (and what we consider more important) things, like wheel bearings and gas and overly-expensive electricity/grocery/water bills because you foolishly offered to watch your three nieces and one nephew for a week while they visited from New Mexico.

• I understand you cannot please everyone, so to speak, and I am not a coder, so I have no justifiable clue as to why their client is programmed the way it is, but I'm simply wondering if there's nothing the company can do at all to even attempt to cater to 'my crowd' (us with the slow, old computers)