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Why the game and community have both lost their way

Planetship·3/9/2015, 4:51:09 PM·5 votes·726 views

The game: No diversity. This is caused by both the design team releasing new champions which replace many other champions already on the roster and also the balance team who routinely make inexplicable and arbitrary choices regarding game balance issues.

The community: Toxic to the point of being radioactive. Constant infighting and bickering allows the Riot design/balance teams to never take the community seriously. The community is hypocritical, constantly calling for Riot to base the game around the skill level of the majority of players, while still embracing the fanboy culture of LCS (always picking champions played in LCS, another reason contributing to lack of diversity). The very word "meta" sickens me.

In short, I am glad I stopped playing about a month ago. I still read patch notes and the boards, and every time I do I am reminded of how much happier I am now than I would be if I was still playing.

5 Comments

Spirit of Raava3/9/2015, 4:57:00 PM2 votes

Eh I still play cause I'm bored of other games atm. It's good to play multiple games, no one game rules them all, except possibly WoW... even then I get bored of WoW every now and then.

Honestly the only thing that stresses me out on this game is Riot, not the players. I don't mind dealing with toxic players, it's just the fear of being reported and banned by Riot that stresses me out 10x more than the actual toxic players, makes the playing experience less enjoyable in my opinion. If Riot would handle things the way other MOBAs do, like DOTA2 for example 2 weeks of no reports and your record is reset, things would be a lot less stressful in my opinion.

Piantissimo3/9/2015, 5:01:10 PM1 votes

why is it hard though, a champion is never picked in the LCS but is always picked in SoloQ and randomer games why can't it be balanced based on the SoloQ and randomers?

if a champion is picked in the LCS it usually gets picked up by the viewers but it should still be balanced based on the LCS games.

currently item changes are effecting the picks more than nerfs, and some champions like Zed, Jarvan, Janna are just picked because they are strong and their "counterplay" involves them making a mistake

Kingsgrave3/9/2015, 5:11:50 PM1 votes

People will always spew hatred and hypocrisy. Its part of their nature. Its riot's fault they haven't designed a system that makes it difficult for people to do so.

The game is plenty diverse, far more diverse than it has been. Step outside of your negativity bias for a moment pls sir.