Part of Riots job is to make the game fun

Axhliay·7/27/2018, 6:23:40 AM·2 votes·669 views

And currently, its a complete failure.

To look at the current state of the game and say nothing is wrong is asinine. And I believe that it has a lot to do with the stylistic and creative choices.

League has lost a lot of what made it fun to play, over the top ridiculousness with a key focus in strategy, teamwork and skill. Where each one worked in harmony, where raw power could be overcome by strategy and skill, where power and skill could beat strategy. All kept away from the horrible idea of the "what ifs". Where the question was always "What if X did X"

But we have gone down this steady slope to where we are now when we stopped putting the brakes on game designs elements that broke the key philosophies in place before it, in that _it has to be fun to play, and fair to play against. _

A single champion that could almost invalidate a class, a runes system that is FUNDAMENTALLY broken, all examples of a system where there is no pressure to say, "I think this is a bad idea for X reason".

League has become so stale because at the heart of it, There are all of these champions, all of these skins, but there is no content. Because its the same game over and over again, where losses feel twice as sour as a victory does sweet, And the balance is so far out, that no matter how hard you push down on the other end, the seesaw doesnt see balance. Even playing with 5 people doesnt have the same energy as it once did.

Look at all of the streamers and content creators that make or use to make content for league. A lot of have quit. A lot make other game content as well, and a lot feel like they are ready to quit.

There has been amazing content made for league, amazing people that have amased millions of people to come and play this game. . . . . .

But you will never see them stay if the game is not fun to play.

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Make the game fun again.

3 Comments

Jamaree7/27/2018, 6:25:26 AM2 votes

If that was the case of the game being fun back then, why were people still bitching about balance and it being unfun?

MasterDClone7/27/2018, 7:39:02 AM1 votes

the game is fun right now, you just have to know how to have fun in it. PLaying with friends is so much fun in the current meta where we go 5 man jungle and make it work. just a few game ago we had a 4 man where the random had afk on us because he had to go and we nearly pulled a win with an full ap ivern, full ad sion, full ad rengar and mundo and it was hardfought to the end, we just laughin our asses off after each fight, in previous meta a team such as this wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes but we dragged it out an hour and nearly winning if it wasn't for their backdoor.

Sure a lot of streamers and content creaters have quit, but there are a lot of new ones popping up to replace them, thinking about lolhounds, lone coyote, tilterella, eagzey, shagod, ll stylish( has become bigger and bigger) and many more. The game is only stale if you let it be, sure i could only play my main every game and get the same steamroll, but at the same time with the new runes i can expirement plenty of new strategy's that can work, my favorite being child predator ryze jungle, or sticky vayne(glacial augment tank vayne). Last season was the worst season in my opinion because it was then that evergame felt the same with the same damn ardent supports.