Ppl quitting league ? Is it just me ???

UKP LK·6/16/2018, 10:52:41 AM·81 votes·23,082 views

Alot of my friends either quit or stop playing the game alot, they play sth else instead. Even I asked them, they said not fun anymore, boring game. Quick note, all my friends are plat + dia if this means anything.

For me I feel it too, I used to think abt the game and have the urge to play it, now just kinda mehh.... Like I still play but mehhh....

Is this only happening to me?? Are ppl quitting or just my small group :O? I feel like alot of ppl r getting frustrated, Q in low elo taking abit longer than usual now as well

193 Comments

OtterlyLost6/16/2018, 11:03:06 AM58 votes

I mean I've half quit because they nerfed my champions out if existence. The game is also just not fun. It feels awful to play and even winning isn't very satisfying anymore

JAYCCCCCCCCCCCCE6/16/2018, 12:35:50 PM31 votes

I used to play 13+ games a day. But I also quit too now. Just not fun anymore, no skill required to play, no strategy = no fun. Everyone just runs out and tries to instakill everyone. Its just boring

CrisisEchoes6/16/2018, 11:06:46 AM14 votes

Adcs are unplayable, they alienated almost anyone that likes playing a crit adc. Its not suprising. They alienated assasin players first, bruser tanks after that, now adcs.

If they arent careful theyll alienate everybody.

Sona Ping6/16/2018, 11:00:50 AM13 votes

People quit games, people join other games. Not everyone is going to always find a game enjoyable, there will be people who lose their interest through use. Today, someone is going to quit another game saying it's not fun anymore and they are bored with it give that "League of Legends" thing a try. And you are going to see people who are tired of it voice that, and someone who will leave League will perhaps go to that other game. It's just something that happens.

0DESTROYERZ06/16/2018, 5:02:30 PM13 votes

aram is the only fun in this game anymore, prove me wrong

LawlessMaker6/16/2018, 2:51:56 PM11 votes

They quitting cause this season sucks. I quit playing ADC recently cause it's legit the worse role right now... It use to be when you were a 8/2 adc, you were top dmg, top priority too kill and just unstoppable unless you played stupid... Now... unless the game goes super late, you rely so heavy on your team it makes no sense...

Douglas Funnie6/16/2018, 8:40:02 PM9 votes

Season 8 is pure garbage, folks. Let's all thank Riot for "Runes Reforge".

La Bello6/16/2018, 1:53:25 PM8 votes

im not a fan of the Riot balance team. I know balance is complicated but I feel like the people in charge arent making the right decisions and I feel like they arent being open with internal arguments and conclusions that they come to.

the whole gold funnel changes was a basically reassurance of this because that situation is not as simple as it looks.

ˉˉˉˉˉˉ6/16/2018, 10:03:07 PM7 votes

Nope, same. Used be addicted and only have League on my mind, actively WANTING to play it.

Now however...

I just occasionally log on, and just... meh

YoungFarmer6/16/2018, 4:18:21 PM7 votes

Yah a lot of my friends have quit over the last couple years. Some because the game has decreased in quality and some simply because we are growing up and have other priorities.

Chalze6/16/2018, 11:05:25 PM7 votes

I've half quit too, used to play 5 games a day or so but I've completely lost my incentive to play for a multitude of reasons. All of which can be traced back to Riot wanting LoL to be better to watch than play.

I have a few certain playstyles that Riot keeps gutting:

1 - Tanks I used to love tanks and other more selfless, CCful roles like initiators, meat shields or just general team utility tanks. Best example would be Shen, who currently gets gutted by 90% of all top laners and is somewhat forced into the support role which I guess he does okay. In general everything melts tanks now and tanks just aren't tanky enough with true damage or max HP damage or executes all over the place. This is mainly due to Riot wanting to buff all damage to have more 'play making' whereas tanks can potentially be generally boring to watch play as an audience.

2 - Defensive/Passive Supports I'm the guy who likes to have a less 'clown fiesta' game especially when it comes to early game, so back in the day I really preferred Nami, Soraka, Janna, classic supports who more or less counters initiations from classic initiation supports like Leona, Thresh or Alistar, but nowadays mobility and burst is everywhere, as well as shields being nerfed, on one hand, everyone's mobility makes your very limited peel useless whereas their burst goes right through shields, healing and buffs. Even at the best of times, supports can only shield/heal around 60% of the average burst damage if they get lucky. Otherwise these kinds of supports are now either played super aggressively (currently trending "Battle Mage Soraka" build) or are just too outclassed by everything that's happening around them.

3 - Medium ranged control mages Due to relatively the same reasons as above, medium ranged control mages are generally outclassed right and left, specifically Orianna. Everything she has in her arsenal can be countered by whats popular right now. Her Q is easily dodge-able due to being a medium ranged skillshot with so much mobility right now, and same goes for her W. Her E doesn't shield for that much and has a decent travel time, burst damage dealers can basically ignore this with the amount of damage going on right now and her R is only really a temporary fix for burst/mobility. Her biggest strength is probably wombo combos but wombo combos just don't happen anymore with assassins and carries bursting down people right and left before you even have time to group.

4 - General mobility Well hey, mobility is fun to watch for the audience right? It used to be that 'anyone who has mobility has an extra form of offense and defense'. Now, it's 'anyone who doesn't have mobility will absolutely get outclassed by those who do'. The endless amount of mobility allows anyone to dive turrets without a sweat. There's no counterplay to that even if the 'safety' of your turret. Why is this? Mobility. And burst damage I guess.

4.5 - Turrets Yeah, they're useless now.

5 - Burst Damage Why did LB originally get a rework? To increase the delay times between her burst for room for counterplay. Why did Fizz's W get a change? To increase the delay times between his burst for room for counterplay. Why did Yi get a cooldown refresh delay from kills during his ultimate? To increase the delay times between his burst for room for counterplay. What's Riot doing right now? Getting rid of that delay in other champions. This point has been said enough by others. This game lost it's teamplay strategy and is now focused on the individual strengths of each champion and their capabilities to 100 to 0 someone. That way, no one needs map awareness, just do your best to burst someone when you find them.

6 - The general jist of all this I remember reading somewhere, someone pointed something out that made a whole lot of sense, and unfortunately it's not something Riot's going to address since they're a business. On one hand, more mobility and more burst damage is more appealing to watch, especially in the pro scene, a large playerbase of LoL are Chinese teenagers who play in internet cafes. As a result, Riot needs to make LoL into a super fast game which ends before 20 minutes to satisfy those Chinese internet cafe gamers as well as something flashy to make the casual watching audience intrigued by the intense action. LoL went from a strategic game to an intense game of cat and mouse, where the people who catch out the opponents (which is easier and easier to do) the more they'll win.

Conclusion Is this unhealthy for the game? I guess for us but definitely not for those Chinese (or Asian in general) internet cafe gamers, they're having the time of their lives, especially with the average Chinese teenager being rather egotistical about gaming (accuse me of being racist or not but this is too true), Riot needs to satisfy that playerbase, especially since Riot is owned by TenCent, a Chinese corporation.

So yeah, the game I fell in love with back in 2012 just isn't the same anymore. I've tried to put up with its bs from time to time and much of it was absolutely manageable, but this is going too far out of what I consider fun and entertaining and its gameplay is becoming more and more toxic by the patch. As bad as this makes me sound, I truly can't help but feel like I can't wait to see this game end. I no longer want LoL to improve, I just want it to die. I dunno why, I never say this but I can't deny myself feeling it.

[sg-soraka]

PS: I should probably also mention that other things in my life have come into play so I have other things I want to dedicate my time to other than LoL so I guess that's another big factor

Daze Clover6/16/2018, 8:40:16 PM6 votes

google trends shows down ward graph for league of legends interest over time

Reaper Soraka6/16/2018, 6:58:40 PM6 votes

I still play because I have this hope that they'll have some great mid-season or pre-season patch that will make it fun again.

I should probably face the fact that they likely won't and if I want to play a game like old League I should probably go play DOTA or HoN or something.

But I won't. I'll play a game here and there and hope. I'm stupid like that.

InfinitexMortal6/16/2018, 9:59:07 PM6 votes

Whoever took over lead of Riot Games has no idea what he is doing. I think he is the same guy that lead to the downfall of World of Warcraft with all kinds of really weird, seemingly random design changes as we are now seeing with league. [sg-lulu]

AR URF6/16/2018, 11:11:15 AM5 votes

I'm nearly there. I'm finding one shot meta to be very annoying and I hate stealth. The culprit is item 3147 of course. And than you have mage assassins like Katarina Leblanc Akali who pretty much do that too without even building an insane ap item.

Typical game you'll most likely see someone lock in a bruiser/tank top and stay up there till jungler and team win bot and mid lane. Well that's how it was. Meta is crazy now with weak ADC.

MAD Demone6/17/2018, 4:56:31 PM5 votes

No, it isn't just you. The game started going downhill roughly since summer 2015 bruiser's update and riot being bought by tencent didn't help either, or i should say, actually sped up the process. Since that period, riot kept messing with league's balance with no purpose at all, if not to maximize the profit due to skins and other cosmetics. The game is simply not fun anymore, it is just a shell of what it used to be more than 3 years ago. The game is also repetitive as hell, still riot did nothing to break its monotony. Hell, they even removed the Dominion mode. Player behaviour control system is nowhere near efficient as it was supposed to be. There was a time when respectable players themselves were allowed to examine chat logs from reported players and decided if it was worth punishing said players. It was called the tribunal and it even granted some influence points for righteous judging from the community itself. The tribunal is no more and reports are managed through bots and keywords, leaving plenty of open space for those who actually troll/feed and bypass those keywords (riotlyte and his chain of nonsensical bans docet). All we got other than that is a stupid capsule system which is not valuable at all and is basically a lazy rework of the summoner's code ribbons. There was the Journal of Justice, which together with champion's lores was a fun reading. Now the Journal of Justice is no more and the champion's lore have been literally destroyed and made into little stories for 5yo in the client and anonymous wall of texts in the league site and/or short comics with no depth of narration (still nice imaginery, though). They kept tailoring the balance for the top 1% of the high level competitive community (literally leaving the remaining 99% who only play for fun in a mess where low skill champions can become godlike within 2 minutes... Which isn't fun at all.) They kept pushing to the competitive scene, giving thousands of kids the fake dream of being a professional lol player (which is utterly absurd and unhealthy even for those who actually manage to become that) and gifting us a cringefest of drama and trash tier articles journals/promo right from our clients and in social media. They started copying other games' ideas and badly implementing watered down versions of them. See the voice chat, which, say Warframe has had since months and can be muted if anoying. Now what does riot do? They only let you chat with premades in order to prevent toxic situations? Wow.

They even destroyed the role of ad carry which i used to love maining and literally created situations where a goddamn ap mage bot can be twice useful against turrets and other objectives. They have no idea of what a tank or a bruiser are. Even my old lol friends never log in anymore, and without them i have no interest on coming back, after having seen so much shit from riot's part. So i decided to uninstall it. And you can bet that since the game is well off the "new and fresh" phase, hundred of people are getting out everyday since years. Most of the accounts remaining are probably meaningless smurfs which boasts up the player count.

And this is why they stopped giving playerbase info long ago.

Banuvan6/16/2018, 10:51:01 PM5 votes

187 people on my friends list. Never more than 5-7 online. It has declined tremendously over the last year to year and a half. It dropped down to 1-3 with patch 8.11. This is at all times of the day and night. I haven't played in a week and won't be playing till Riot fixes a lot of issues. I doubt they ever will so I won't be back but on the off chance they do I still look at the forums.

BlackEyesBlue6/16/2018, 5:53:55 PM5 votes

It certainly seems to be happening in extreme at the moment; and frankly; I get it.

In my case it started this season. My favorite champs had been utterly neutered by the changes to runes, items, and direct nerfs... meanwhile, my most hated champs seemed to be getting buffed harder and harder by the same means...

The player base is getting more and more toxic. And I don't mean verbally, I don't give a poop about game chat, That can be muted. Trolling, inebriated/just for fun players, and worst of all, disgustingly imbalanced match making however? I'm seeing MUCH more of it then I have in the past.

Combined with this horrible AD hyper snowball meta that they seem to continue pushing for... seriously yesterday I watched a Wukong with a lethality build just run up to a tower and 100 to 0 it in 4 auto attacks! What the hell is that!

If players are leaving in masses, maybe some of the games REAL problems will finally be addressed.

DiazNr16/16/2018, 6:22:07 PM4 votes

I play less and less everyday.this game has become total shit lately

PowerSlave9936/16/2018, 5:54:45 PM4 votes

Yes, it is true. People have quit just as I did. It's not worth to waste time on this crap.

little fatso6/16/2018, 9:06:02 PM4 votes

I also decided 2 days ago that i wont touch the game anymore until towers got buffed and the coinflip gameplay stops.

Got 10 to 30 stomped one time too often. Feels so frustrating.

Last 2 seasons plat 3-4 and now hardstuck in g2. Losing 5 or 6 in a row then again winning 5 or 6. The champs I like are not viable anymore. Just tired to get one shoted all the time.

Nhifu6/16/2018, 2:27:20 PM4 votes

People love to say they quit league. But in the end what else is there left to really play?

Starcraft 2 has a WORSE balance team. CSGO is a complete RNG fest with terrible servers (matchmaking is top notch) Siege has terrible problems with trolls (friendly fire)

Kian9876/16/2018, 8:26:30 PM3 votes

I quit too but I keep leaving my client open. My huge buddy list seems like a desert. Most people are offline. Today also one of my favorite streamers tilted hard against RIOT. I see it happening everywhere. Frankly I play since season 3 and I've never seen so many disappointed players and quits all happening in the same time. It's the first time I see so many people complaining about the same things simultaneously.

Moreover I'm in a group of 11 premades. We play together since season 3/4. We know each other. Right now just one of us (the one with the lowest ELO - Bronze) keeps playing normally. 4 of us left the game. All others are playing very rarely and alone. They prefer to watch LCS and streamers but they're starting to dislike also this thing. Even pro-play is becoming disgusting... the most skilled players of LoL picking Taric and Janna... they feel no longer entertained to watch this stuff.

In the meantime I replaced LoL with Z - The Bitmap Brothers a videogame from 1996. I'm having more fun with a videogame designed 22 years ago! I'm also reading more books and I run 80 kilometers per week instead of 40. I'm perfectly fine :-) I'd love to come back. This game was awesome but now it can't be played anymore.

hi ìm groot6/16/2018, 9:08:14 PM3 votes

Literally everyone I use to play with has stopped playing league. I don't really enjoy it, but at the same time I kinda still wanna end diamond so im playin abit waiting for this meta to reach a spot that makes sense.

deadmendontlie6/16/2018, 10:26:42 PM3 votes

Sadly I agree with you, and your friends about quitting, but the reasons I am getting to that point is, because I haven't liked where riot is taking the game this season especially after what I saw they were willing to do to adcs instead of finding better ways to balance which were needed just there has to be a better way to fix issues of champions not getting played, and the strong botlane pressence, aatrox rework is poorly done, and the fact that the game is becoming a chore to play. Mostly I do not enjoy the direction riot is going to balance the game, and aatrox rework, because every change so far made to each role has not done a ton to balance things except drastically push things out of viability, and the same thing could happen to other roles like it did to bot lane, and people will be upset. If you don't believe on what has changed drastically in a role, and what can be played look at what was played mid for the longest time control mage with tear now becoming full assail meta again due to mana costs, and pushing lanes. Then there is jungle where early game junglers are favor due to clear speed, and early ganking/pure strength for 1v1s another issue in jungle is how far behind you will become /can become early if you do not get atleast one scuttle before ten minutes pushing out slow clear weak early strong late champions.

Mig896/16/2018, 10:28:11 PM3 votes

I’ve argued with a ton of people on here that league isn’t dying and that they just need to adjust to the meta. That being said, I’m down to playing Arams now and it’s a combination of damage creep and ping issues. I was playing on 20-30 ping and a couple weeks ago mine changed to 80-150 and the game is just too hard to play and keep up with fights with that little difference. I feel like I’m a step behind on everything and it just kills my play style. I was on my way to plat but I just had to give it up because Beijing half a second behind just gets you killed so quickly. I do believe if my ping was lower I’d be able to deal but it’s just not worth tanking my rank to find out lol

Ker Primrose6/17/2018, 12:32:50 AM3 votes

fck riot, nice change, fix it back idiot

IllllIIIllllll6/17/2018, 10:17:09 AM3 votes

I don't blame them, this game is so unbalanced call someone stupid you get a 14 day suspension. Balanced. But when someone ints they don't get a ban

LatetotheRace6/17/2018, 1:37:51 AM2 votes

My groups about dead too, or at the very least their playrate has dwindled significantly. Not to mention my friends list...

Deneviel6/17/2018, 9:10:11 AM2 votes

Since s8 started i did like 50 matches in total ( pretty much i playied only to clear some event quests )

What turned me off completely:

  • Shorter onesided matches.
  • My favorite champs got either reworked or kicked out of this hyper damage meta.
  • The new hex system.

Also, almost all my friends either quitted or are bored AF to play.

Nothing much to add .... hope RIOT will take a step back on this new rune and hex system and do some massive rebalance instead of just trowing out new skins weekly

HeyBigGuyHeyBudd6/17/2018, 4:23:04 PM2 votes

Runes reforged turned the game into the biggest fuckery there is.

Lapa6/17/2018, 1:01:50 AM2 votes

i completely understand what you mean, this new meta where people are playing random champs bot lane is ruining the game, EX: sion and yasuo bot, they need to fix this issue, either make adc stronger or make them do more dmg to tanks or something to help keep the game as it was. And also need to get rid of this one shot meta, there is no reason at all, someone should be able to 1 shot another player if they built any sort of tank item.

Qwinn6/17/2018, 1:07:39 AM2 votes

For the first time I queue for support and I still have to wait 3-4 mins to find a game...that how you know they lost a lot of players.