Leaving League of Legends (And Here's Why)
6 Accounts later... 4000 Hours of Gameplay... and I've finally decided to leave the infamous summoner's rift for good. I loved this game, I've met a ton of people on this game that have become really good friends with me, and I don't regret joining league for a second, because it was one of the most fun games I've ever played, but I do genuinely believe the game is dying. So I'm leaving for quite a few reasons, which I will list below.
The Game is too Long
Let me just start off by saying, this is not a flaw in the league system, nothing that riot can fix. I'm not blaming riot for this, because unfortunately their hands are tied. Making games shorter would result in League becoming very unbalanced (and I think someone just made a post on this). However this doesn't change the facts that the game is too long. 45-50 minutes is a long time to be spending just to increase/decrease 15LP. If we were to do the math, It would take Someone 7 wins to get to their promos, and assuming that you're at a 60% winrate, it would take you roughly 27 Games just to get to your promos, or roughly 20 hours of gameplay just to get to your promos.
The game is repetitive
For 7 years, the game hasn't changed in a significant way, which is quite disappointing considering it's one of the most played games in the world. You'd think that the amount of RP people spend per annum would give riot the motivation to bring something new and exciting to the game, but that doesn't happen. You get into a game, farm for 20 minutes, team fight, fight a fictional dragon, and punch a nexus. And you just keep doing this over and over until hopefully, you're high up in the ladder by the end of the season. Oh but it doesn't end there! N-no! Everything resets the very next season, and so you'll drop 1-2 tiers even if you win all of your placements. and **that's ** where it ends.
Matchmaking is terrible
I'm not going to go in detail on this because talking about Season 6&7 matchmaking just makes me mad. Those 2 seasons in particular have been bad matchmaking wise, but matchmaking was bad even before that. Riot would throw in Unrankeds in your Gold, Plat, even diamond promos. Youd get matched with people multiple ranks below you, and then they'd feed, because they can't keep up. The game is also really against you climbing, matching you with those of a lower MMR once you go on a winstreak to "balance out the Team's MMR" -_-.
Toxicity
everyone knows what toxicity is, because everyone either commits it, or experiences it on a daily basis.
and lastly, solo-queue communication
If you're going to throw us with 4 other strangers, give us a way to talk to each other. No, pings aren't enough. half of ranked players now only use pings to spam "?????" on someone who just tower dove and died. Besides that, there aren't really pings for everything. You can't tell someone to ward, or to watch out for traps. You cant tell orianna to put her ball on you with pings, etc etc. However, the community is just hands down against voice comms because of toxicity. It's not difficult to mute... I mean you might aswell just remove text chat too, seeing as all the toxicity happens on there anyway.
