Unhappy with LOL’s current state? Lack of Dev empathy? Boycott skin purchases.

DarwinTheory··155 votes·4,242 views

The boards are awash with complaints about the current state of LOL. Difference between past and present is in the past it was complaints about strong champions not game design.

Fed up with games where strategy is gone? Where you die, know the mistake you made but can't turn it around because it's not about skill anymore but more about who 2 shots who first and one death means first tower and loss?

Fed up with "oh look there's the enemy" BAM! Half team wiped in 2 seconds teamfights where strategy and counterplay no longer exist?

Fed up with RIOT responding to poems and artwork but ignoring legitimate game design complaints????

Vote with your wallets. Don't buy skins. Honestly does how your champion look really matter that much to your vanity?

RIOT won't listen to your complaints because they know they have your money. Take that away from them and I guarantee you they will start listening. I absolutely assure you they will move quickly to address legitimate player concerns because the big bosses above the game design team will lean on them once the money drops. This is how the world works.

If you're unhappy with LOL just don't give them your money. I have some awesome skins I am desperate to own in 'My Shop' but I will never buy them on principal given the current state of the game. It would feel like funding terrorism.

Unhappy? You know what you have to do guys.

94 Comments

D4M2X038 votes

maybe this would work if we didnt flood them money to begin with. when you give a company so much they forget what made their game great in the first place and start to make the game attracting to casuals and new players to get even more players, they know old players will still continue to play no matter what we do and if we do quit its not a big deal cause new players will just join.

theyve literally made it easy (or easier) to get high elo when u pick overpowered point and click champs that any fool can play, thats how much of a casual game theyve made it. i thought riot gets ur money for buying RP, not for buying a skin, so you might aswell get what u can until ur RP is gone. if riot got money for buying skins they would give everyone RP to buy skins.

LightIsMyPath30 votes

Meh. Playing but not buying skins may be perceived like there is a problem with the design of new skins and a problem in the skin team, which is not true at all since that team is doing an amazing job lately. I'd say refrain from playing a lot and switch to other games. I landed on smite lately and really enjoy it aside from the problems that come from having a low playerbase (like terrible matchmaking.. But they just don't have the numbers to improve it), some people migrated to hots and others to dota. THIS is how you really signal you are not ok with the game (ofc if you are on another game so is your wallet.. And said games even have ways to get more or less reliably cosmetic stuff for free/in game currency)

Sexy Jack Rabbit2 votes

Skins teams content has been great but ever since IronStylus left Riot they are close to non-existent when it comes to communicating with anyone.

KateyKhaos kind of tries but it always comes with an air of arrogance.

Miku Append21 votes

Good luck with the Ahri skin whales.

Z3Sleeper4 votes

I swear to god every 1 out of 10 of my friends has every ahri skins and the other 9 have 2 or 3.

junglerboy163 votes

Same with Annie Draven Ezreal Jhin Jinx Katarina Riven Tryndamere Vayne Yasuo whales...

Support Position15 votes

Amen.

Barkley11 votes

This won't do shit.

What really needs to happen is that all the players out there threatening to quit the game because its such a steaming pile of crap need to actually leave. ACTUALLY leave.

Maybe when Riot has no players they'll listen.

But money? You can't hurt riot's wallet. This game has thousands of new casual players every day, buying champions and buying skins.

And even if everyone on these boards quit tomorrow, there'd still be hundreds of thousands of players playing just because of all the people who (somehow?) just found out about league yesterday.

To them, this absolute trash pile is just how the game works. They don't know anything else, so it might be fun for them.

Slythrin Umbreon9 votes

Yu don't understand! I NEED Snowday Gnar D: He's a God Damn HUSKY <3

Friendly Ram4 votes

Now i need snow day gnar.

Slythrin Umbreon2 votes

Ikr? I can't even play Gnar for shit, I just need to persevere and learn for the dogo. Nasus

JetpackKatt2 votes

Not only is he a husky, but there are

SPARKLES

and he hurls FROZEN PENGUINS i.e. free revenge on all the M'Pengu spammers

I actually love it more than Super Galaxy <3

Handin Out Naps9 votes

Hmm less than 1% of the playerbase is gonna attempt to boycott skins. Wew lads, that will show them, big meanie bully riot take that.

MetalGearTeemo10 votes

HAHA you'll never defeat the overwhelming fatness of this company so you best just bend over and really let them fuck you right up the rump.

You sound like a cuck honestly.

Handin Out Naps6 votes

What the fuck are you even talking about? Because im not a whiny little kid like the rest of you I sound like someone who would let their so have sex with another man? God forbid I actually enjoy the game currently. God forbid I appreciate riot for giving us free skins when they literally owed us nothing. Use your brain, this whole lets not buy any skins ever again shit is stupid when a huge majority of the playerbase probably still enjoys the game and will continue to buy skins.

DarkRooster3 votes

''when they literally owed us nothing'' that is not how this works at all, the player base and this game is what made them the richest people in the world. They owe us quite a lot, for starters a decent game. You can't say they owe us nothing when people overpay about this game 10 times more than 60gb major game release.

Handin Out Naps5 votes

What they give us is a COMPLETELY free to play game that is very enjoyable to a lot of people. Nothing required to play this game costs money, the only thing that costs money are cosmetics that you CHOOSE to buy. If you fit in the minority that doesn't enjoy the game, then so be it, but remember you are still the minority.

DarkRooster3 votes

I see you are new to micro transaction era. When you mature you will understand it. But i said everything there is to say, we paid for this game and we will ask for this game to retain its quality.

No i am not minority technically, they stopped releasing player numbers and experts have pinpointed that majority from peak have already quit. So basically its minority with majority of it crying about the game in forum, reddit, another forums and game itself. There is 100 people crying about game state and 1 replying that he really likes it. When you pass middle school you will get a lot about statistics.

Also LoL in global fame is known as one of the most cancerous games out there. If you ever bring it up in random place there will be more haters than lovers.

Handin Out Naps6 votes

100 people crying on the forums. Wow that reminds me of that time everyone on the boards wanted Riven to win the vs event and Yasuo ended up winning. Wow that reminds of that time when the majority of reddit (which let me remind you is multiple times bigger than the boards) wanted adventurer illaoi, but battlecast illaoi won by a very large margin. Trust me, you are the minority. Also remember the boards is full of a lot of people who are just here to complain, aswell as a lot of lower elo players that dont even understand the game in general. League can have a lot of haters but at the end of the day its still the most played game.

MuffledGarbage2 votes

Why are you bringing gays into discussions about Riot?

Are you saying Riot is gay?

YOUR GAY ANALOGY MAKES NO SENSE!!!

All you did was insult MetalGearTeemo for no reason other than him giving his opinion.

In your OP you did almost the exact same thing.

Insults lower your credibility for an argument.

The OP of this thread only wanted to let people know HOW to boycott(let's face it, how many people would have really boycotted if not informed by a friend)

The thread's purpose is to inform people whom(for example myself) would go out and spread the boycott message via "word-of-mouth" and thereby grow into a large enough factor that Riot games would HAVE to listen.

DNFVixen2 votes

{quoted}

Why are you bringing gays into discussions about Riot?

Are you saying Riot is gay?

YOUR GAY ANALOGY MAKES NO SENSE!!!

All you did was insult MetalGearTeemo for no reason other than him giving his opinion.

In your OP you did almost the exact same thing.

Insults lower your credibility for an argument.

The OP of this thread only wanted to let people know HOW to boycott(let's face it, how many people would have really boycotted if not informed by a friend)

The thread's purpose is to inform people whom(for example myself) would go out and spread the boycott message via "word-of-mouth" and thereby grow into a large enough factor that Riot games would HAVE to listen.

This right here is a beautiful post. Informative and educational to those who don't understand. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

GayFluffyUnicorn2 votes

Yeah riot is actually a charity. They give us all for free because they are so nice. Please stop spreading this shit. Everything they do is calculated to produce more money which is only fair and legit but dont act like riot is some charity living from our love and giving us all for free because they love us so much.

Daddy Ants8 votes

I don't like some things in this game but not enough for me to close my wallet.

Skins team are doing a really good job with skin releases lately.

GayFluffyUnicorn8 votes

But only if you play the champs like jinx, ahri, lux and similiar shit. Camille still only one skin over a year after release. GP not a single high quality skin. Jax is getting one but idk if its actually justified to make a god x skin for 1350 instead of 1820 quality. Plain obvious which champs get special treatment and that sucks.

Daunt4 votes

Dreadnova GP is not a high quality skin?

Make Na Great5 votes

I'd rather buy skins to support rito. They made this game, sure it's not perfect, but i get a kick outta playing it. Ty Rito for making a wonderful game.(even though there are a lot of ragers etc.) :) Side note~ pretty sure they have different teams working on different things such as skins, gameplay, dev, etc

Northmund5 votes

Agree! And hope people will follow your advice.

Yoinked Your Ult5 votes

Agreed, never putting money in the game again but not because of the state of the game but because they scammed us with the skin rerolls.

DNFVixen5 votes

Boycott till we bankrupt them!

Automated Riven4 votes

I already have. I wanted those project skins too. But fuck it.

0racle09124 votes

Was going to gift my cousin $100 worth of RP for Xmas but I agree with this. I love supporting Riot, but with the low response to complaint/suggestion posts and the lack of change with OE, BE, and damage values still after all this time and efforts to communicate our dissatisfaction is purely frustrating and insulting to us as a playerbase. I hope some major changes come around soon, I don't want to see this game go down the drain :/ rito pls

Evil Yasuo4 votes

But you guys are always going to be unhappy with league. If X gets nerfed then X is too strong, etc etc. There's always going to be an annoying meta.

MysteriousBootie4 votes

lol

I mean i'm not that happy with league atm anyways but this is beyond overkill

"I don't like this meta right now so imma boycott even though it's eventually goin to get changed over more patches later anyways xdddd"

Blåbæret3 votes

This meta has been present for over a year. Riot hasn't even been trying to change it. It's been gradually getting worse and worse. If you actually believe anything will change, you're a fool.

You're one of those who said "dw guys, it's preseason". Ye man, and two patches later it's even worse than at the start.

GayFluffyUnicorn2 votes

The current state of the game is nearly two years old. Transformation started in s6. Thank god i stopped investing halfway through only using the leftover RP from a 50€ buy.

DNFVixen4 votes

{quoted}

The boards are awash with complaints about the current state of LOL. Difference between past and present is in the past it was complaints about strong champions not game design.

Fed up with games where strategy is gone? Where you die, know the mistake you made but can&#039;t turn it around because it&#039;s not about skill anymore but more about who 2 shots who first and one death means first tower and loss?

Fed up with &quot;oh look there&#039;s the enemy&quot; BAM! Half team wiped in 2 seconds teamfights where strategy and counterplay no longer exist?

Fed up with RIOT responding to poems and artwork but ignoring legitimate game design complaints????

Vote with your wallets. Don&#039;t buy skins. Honestly does how your champion look really matter that much to your vanity?

RIOT won&#039;t listen to your complaints because they know they have your money. Take that away from them and I guarantee you they will start listening. I absolutely assure you they will move quickly to address legitimate player concerns because the big bosses above the game design team will lean on them once the money drops. This is how the world works.

If you&#039;re unhappy with LOL just don&#039;t give them your money. I have some awesome skins I am desperate to own in &#039;My Shop&#039; but I will never buy them on principal given the current state of the game. It would feel like funding terrorism.

Unhappy? You know what you have to do guys.

I agree with this completely.

Fönikku4 votes

I agree. Good point from OP

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Rester3 votes

Good luck boycotting the game when others have tried. Only reason it worked for Battlefront 2 is because it was a full paid game with some progression things locked behind loot boxes. This is a free to play game.

lGIaurunGl3 votes

My problem is that blitzcrank gets two new skins but some champs still only have 1 or 2 themselves.

Jinx Hunter3 votes

I've not spent RP in at least like a year or more. Had gifts from friends but never I never buy skins anymore. Only think that could break my Boycott is a Project Xin skin or a Star Guardian Zyra skin. [sg-ahri-2]

RainbowIcee2 votes

I can see where you come from but i'm the opposite i support the idea of Quality not quantity and the skin spam this year (star guardians, project, etc ) I've felt have been low on quality ( thought he vayne skin did look nice) and they're just spamming 1350 skins that feel so uninspired like they were forced to make them not like they wanted to. Anyways i will say amazing job on the pentakill Kayle, even if it was a repeated theme that one felt soo well done and even unique while being part of a group theme. Great job on that one :) those are the skins i fully support! and the xmas and April fools. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Anatera3 votes

Or you could just not play.

iTaLenTZ3 votes

Just boycott the game. I uninstalled 6 months ago

Ðıor3 votes

They think their slick stop making 975 skins only these 1350 skins

ImABeast20fo72 votes

I've been doing this for months now.

xXNaxaXx2 votes

Too late for me though, I spent money in the game on a Taric skin and I am about to spend some mo' money on another Taric skin. Why? Because I'm....VAYNE. Taric Puns everywhere.

Anyways, I like the game, I just wish they would bring the old runes back the new ones screwed me over, and I wish they would stop giving certain champions special treatment Ahri
I don't see why people aren't willing to give the new League of Legends a chance, I know most of you probably already have, but why can't we just wait and see how the next season goes? Perhaps it will get better. :)

FuhrerRico2 votes

Absolutely agree. Screw riot for not giving a dang about true balance. If they won't take their jobs seriously, I won't pay them.

AgentXRS1 votes

I am highly confused. Give me one good reason why I should let you play the game till 30, 40, or 50 min and give you a chance to come back when I beat your ass badly simply because YOU ARE JUST BAD?

Raiyza3 votes

Because besting the early game should not define the rest of the game.

Beating the enemy early should only grant you a good lead, but the current state is an absolute stomp if the team gets a lead. It becomes one sided awaayyy too fast.

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