I will no longer spend money on league of legends. Sorry riot, but the game isn't worth any effort

Hóly·Jan 13, 2017·1 votes·823 views

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It takes but never gives.

People say it's not based on wins, but that's not entirely true. In reality the games should have gotten harder and the mmr should have gone up until I lost, and down if I kept losing. Instead I could spend a bunch more hours slowly crawling out of silver, but why bother, it's pretty much the same each year.

EDIT: I should clarify that those 10 wins are my placements, and the only games I played so far this season.

7 Comments

TheFallenShawJan 13, 20173 votes

Ik I'm gonna sound like a smartass here, but what does that have todo with you spending money on the game? If it is just that (unfun) then why do you play at all muchless consider spending money.

I know matchmaking is bs, putting bronze 4 in as high as gold. and that the starting placements have put players 1 or 2 ranks lower than last year from what people have posted. Generally the public hate these, both high and low ello. But is rank the only reason you play? Enjoy the game, play your best and don't worry about rank. Money doesn't = rank or grant you wins after all. Money is just for skins and icons/wards after all. That's all I'm getting at.

HólyJan 13, 20173 votes

Riot runs on money. If people don't pay them, then they have to change stuff. If enough people think the ranking system is BS, then stop buying RP.

dakota saturnJan 13, 20171 votes

So what? I was placed into Silver V and climbed back to gold in a few days. It's not a big deal.

HólyJan 13, 20171 votes

It is a big deal, I don't have unlimited time to play. Just those ranked games were over 5 hours of time (closer to 10). If the ranked system doesn't allow you to climb correctly then it doesn't work. It's supposed to find your middle spot by making you play increasingly difficult opponents if you keep winning, that way your mmr/elo can climb.

Maybe LoL is just for hardcore unlimited play time players now. But if I invest nearly 10 hours of my life into something, and don't do terrible at it, then you would expect some sort of positive reinforcement/feedback.

When ever I try to climb out of silver, every season, when I hit silver 1 I get put against people in Gold 1 and Plat 5, I'm not interested in dealing with that, especially since my team mates tend to be s3-g5 in those situations. The ranked system is garbage. The game isn't fun. Its exceedingly frustrating when you lose due to a bad team, and it doesn't feel rewarding to win. One team tends to just crush the other. Close games are rare, and even then they tend to just be really long so winning doesn't feel that great.

I've been playing league for a long time, the pros don't out-weight the cons.

dakota saturnJan 13, 20171 votes

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It is a big deal, I don't have unlimited time to play. Just those ranked games were over 5 hours of time (closer to 10). If the ranked system doesn't allow you to climb correctly then it doesn't work. It's supposed to find your middle spot by making you play increasingly difficult opponents if you keep winning, that way your mmr/elo can climb.

Maybe LoL is just for hardcore unlimited play time players now. But if I invest nearly 10 hours of my life into something, and don't do terrible at it, then you would expect some sort of positive reinforcement/feedback.

When ever I try to climb out of silver, every season, when I hit silver 1 I get put against people in Gold 1 and Plat 5, I'm not interested in dealing with that, especially since my team mates tend to be s3-g5 in those situations. The ranked system is garbage. The game isn't fun. Its exceedingly frustrating when you lose due to a bad team, and it doesn't feel rewarding to win. One team tends to just crush the other. Close games are rare, and even then they tend to just be really long so winning doesn't feel that great.

I've been playing league for a long time, the pros don't out-weight the cons.

Your positive reinforcement is that you weren't placed in bronze.

But either way, at the end of the day, your elo is just a number. Nobody else outside of this game gives a shit if you're a diamond lux main or a bronze teemo whatever.

If you're not having fun and not getting any enjoyment out of the game don't play it. You literally gain nothing by getting good at it - you gain no discernable skills, you don't have face to face interactions, you don't get the same rush you'd get from a lot of different physical activities.

Snowman ArcJan 13, 20173 votes

And why is it so important for you to climb, if you don't have enough time for it? I mean, if you wanna climb, the end goal is to reach the highest rank possible, but you won't do that unless you put in the time and effort. Playing ranked games for the sake of ranked games because "oh, they have a meaning" doesn't make sense to me. I play League for fun, so I can enjoy any type of game, but bitching about ranked gameplay and the way the rating works, when you are not gonna put the time and effort in it to actually use it to its full extent just doesn't make sense.