Too much change...

I've been playing since season 1; so, I have seen an abundance of changes throughout that time to champions, spells, items, maps, and even interface changes. I could often see reasoning behind buffs/nerfs and general fixes, never doubting Riot was implementing these to better our gameplay. A couple times i was disappointed, but 95% of the time i whole-heartedly agreed with what they were doing. Of course, much time has passed since my days of FREQUENT play (7+ matches daily). Now I'm a bit of a casual, usually squeezing in a match or two a couple nights a week. To my dismay, i find myself having to re-learn how to play the game every two weeks because of the seemingly drastic changes that are made so frequently. I find out there's a new item: "Cool! That sounds great for my favorite mid-laner!" Next month: "What happened to that item? And what the heck is this?" I go to play one of my favorite classic champions: "Oh neat they upgraded his look!" In game: "Annnd... they changed all of his abilities... i have no idea what I'm doing."

I want to pinpoint instances as examples for those, but i cant single out any time that happened without sounding like I am mad over one change. It isn't that... It's the constant change of every single aspect in the game. I want things to stay constant in the game. I want to be able to lane against a champion that existed in season 1 and still know what he can do! I dont have time to research every patch note, read every champion bio, and go through the list of items before i start a match just to have the same advantage as someone who plays the game as much as i used to. I understand that to keep the consistency of the games balance you have to tweak and change some things around to make the numbers work for competitive play, but you dont have to delete a champion people invested time or money to purchase just to make a new one and give it the same name. It is just not fair to the fanbase.

Lastly, i have found matches of 5's are over in 20 minutes, whether is be due to a surrender, or one team completely overpowering the other and pushing for a quick win. Longer games still happen, but they are exceedingly rare as time goes on. I feel like it doesnt even matter if you lose your lane anymore, as long as the others do well you will still win. Maybe you need to increase the health of towers and inhibitors. They are jsut way too easy to down when you have 2-3 champions helping you. With 5 you can down them in a few seconds. That leaves no time for you to recall back and defend when youre trying to counter push a lane or down baron. The last match i played bot had lost their tower at 5 minutes.... 5! They had died once together and the enemies downed it in no time flat. Leaving them defenseless for the rest of the laning part of the game.

You have done great work as a company to give the players an awesome game that begs to be enjoyed. The only reason i write this to you is because i have enjoyed this game so much over the years, and it feels like youre making a turn for the worse. Please, consider what i have said. I am not the only person who feels this way.