Letter to those "It's just a game!" guys....

ALthaGreat·Mar 17, 2015·7 votes·3,921 views

I've never met a person in my ENTIRE life who actually wakes up everyday and thinks to themselves.."Hm I wonder what I can go fail at today! I don't want to be a winner! Winning sucks! I hate winning! I love losing! Losing makes me soooo happy!"

Get over yourself and stay out of "RANKED." (where people play to COMPETE and try to EARN a RANK)

Because saying "It's just a game!" is nothing but an excuse to cover the fact that your actually a failure and you only want to make yourself feel better.

75 Comments

disregardableMar 17, 201514 votes

that rage tho. calm down, it's just a game.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

did you really just tell me "It's just a game" in a thread explaining why people like you only say that as an excuse to make yourselves feel better ? I mean hey if you want to be a loser all your life that if fine with me but SOME of us like SUCCESS. ok?

Mr GodyrMar 17, 20153 votes

whoa dude calm down, it's just the forums, and it's only just a game..

zzman73051Mar 17, 20153 votes

I completely approve of this response

mvargusMar 17, 20153 votes

good response. And I notice the OP raged more. I think he's incapable of understanding just how childish he sounds.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

btw where was the rage?

jpguy902Mar 17, 20155 votes

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btw where was the rage?

I think the rage starts right about here:

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I've never met a person in my ENTIRE life who actually wakes up everyday and thinks to themselves.."Hm I wonder what I can go fail at today! I don't want to be a winner! Winning sucks! I hate winning! I love losing! Losing makes me soooo happy!"

Get over yourself and stay out of "RANKED." (where people play to COMPETE and try to EARN a RANK)

Because saying "It's just a game!" is nothing but an excuse to cover the fact that your actually a failure and you only want to make yourself feel better.

Deep Terror NamiMar 17, 20158 votes

Pretty sure "It's just a game" isn't an excuse to be bad, but rather them trying to get you to calm down.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

It is when the person saying it is a top lane nunu vs nasus who is 2/10. and adds a fat "lol" at the end of the sentence to further prove he thinks life is just a big joke.

jpguy902Mar 17, 20156 votes

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It is when the person saying it is a top lane nunu vs nasus who is 2/10. and adds a fat "lol" at the end of the sentence to further prove he thinks life is just a big joke.

Did you really just compare a video game to life? Now that is a big joke.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

well you know.....because Im sure you've never heard of this......that some people make a living off this game? so im sure to them if you said it's "JUST" a game they could argue with you and even be slightly offended.

Deep Terror NamiMar 17, 20154 votes

Ya, some. Really important keyword there. Some make a living off blowing balloons, too.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

so are you going to go into a balloon store and make fun of guys blowing up balloons and say things like " Hey man it's just a balloon relax!" When I'm sure they would feel quite demeaned.

Everyone takes a small amount of pride in the things they do. If your doing things with your life for no reason you may as well just lay around and fap your life awa.....o wait you probably do that anyway.

Deep Terror NamiMar 17, 20155 votes

Nobody here is insulting professionals, fool. That is the point we're making.

jpguy902Mar 17, 20152 votes

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well you know.....because Im sure you've never heard of this......that some people make a living off this game? so im sure to them if you said it's "JUST" a game they could argue with you and even be slightly offended.

I'm sorry, less than 1% of this community makes it to the LCS and I can think of very few streamers who only make an income off league. Based on how you are acting I really doubt you will climb high enough to attract streamers or make it into the pro scene.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

That's for telling me your doubts. I'm 100% sure you won't make it with that thought process.

jpguy902Mar 17, 20152 votes

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That's for telling me your doubts. I'm 100% sure you won't make it with that thought process.

Its not my doubts its statics. You're basically a player on an intramural football team but you think you can join the nfl one day. Yeah you can practice everyday but odds are strongly in favor of you not going pro.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

Statistics? You have a source for this information? I didn't think so.

jpguy902Mar 18, 20152 votes

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Statistics? You have a source for this information? I didn't think so.

http://www.lolsummoners.com/stats

There you go bub .02% of players make it to challenger. Its just a game to you, you dont make a profit from it.

FHMarshyMar 17, 20156 votes

http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=althagreat

1-13-1 first ranked game, then never connected the second ranked game and talk shit on forum. Seriously?

League of Legend is LITERALLY JUST A FUCKING GAME

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

WOW...just WOW. someone give this guy a cookie! Doesn't even know an inactive alternate account AFTER he looks it up!

GG humanity.

jpguy902Mar 17, 20156 votes

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WOW...just WOW. someone give this guy a cookie! Doesn't even know an inactive alternate account AFTER he looks it up!

GG humanity.

500+ games and the last time the account was used was 9 days ago. I don't think you can call that inactive.

FHMarshyMar 19, 20152 votes

Damn you wanna lie through your teeth about being inactive when you played 9 days ago just because you got called out.

Damn humanity LMAO

MarshallBanannaMar 17, 20155 votes

ITT : Losing at a GAME = losing at life, and people purposely choose to fail at life and games to make OP salty

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

wouldn't you be happy to win enough to get offered money to do something you love to play and spend hours a week playing anyway?

MarshallBanannaMar 17, 20154 votes

ITT we dream of becoming faker, and wine about the hordes of noobs that prevent us from fulfilling our dream.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

Does it make your day to come into a thread just to try to be funny? Does it make you feel better about yourself?

MarshallBanannaMar 17, 20153 votes

it makes me feel better knowing my stress and sodium levels are completely unrelated to my performance in a computer game which has no bearing on my everyday life and serves no other purpose than to entertain me for a few minutes.

ActuallyArrowMar 17, 20155 votes

If it's not a video game, what is it?

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

Dude your not funny. Get a life.

mvargusMar 17, 20156 votes

Actually your attitude makes me think you are the one who needs to "get a life".

League of Legends is a video game, no more, no less. Sure there are a small community (of less than 400 players) who are good enough to have a serious shot at the pro ranks. For them, playing and winning has meaning beyond just being able to claim "I'm a Gold I in season 5 of League". And the truth is that even for them being Diamond I or Master/Challenger doesn't mean as much as you think. I bet that they could walk down just about any street in the US and never once have someone ask for their autograph or picture unless they were near a ongoing convention or LOL event of some kind.

In fact, how about tomorrow morning you go to your local Starbucks and brag to the barista that you are a "X rank player in League of Legends." I'll bet that they'll tell you that you still have to pay $5.00+ for a lousy cup of coffee.

Sorry, but your rant is extremely childish. Yes, League is "just a game." But people saying that aren't necessarily playing to lose. What they are doing is recognizing that once the game is over there is nothing to do about a loss and that it is far better to move on to the next game rather that obsess as you are doing.

Sorry, but you are in the wrong here.

KazaashiMar 17, 20154 votes

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Dude your not funny. Get a life.

Unfortunately for you, the people who do make a living at this game realize that it is just a game.

You should not get upset about any 1 Ranked game. Hell, you shouldn't get upset about 10. Ranked games are about a series, like 100 or so.

Also, if you use less rage in your OP, people won't think you are a rager in game.

TeemoJenkinsMar 17, 20155 votes

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I've never met a person in my ENTIRE life who actually wakes up everyday and thinks to themselves.."Hm I wonder what I can go fail at today! I don't want to be a winner! Winning sucks! I hate winning! I love losing! Losing makes me soooo happy!"

Get over yourself and stay out of "RANKED." (where people play to COMPETE and try to EARN a RANK)

Because saying "It's just a game!" is nothing but an excuse to cover the fact that your actually a failure and you only want to make yourself feel better.

It's just a game that's why scrub op intentionally fed in one game and afk'd the other. http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1729136609/45616453?tab=overview http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1744987951/45616453?tab=overview

Here's a letter for you OP: You're (This is the correct usage as a side note versus your consistent use of "your") toxic and likely raging at people hence why they say "It's just a game" - you aren't curing cancer or winning the Nobel Peace Prize, you're playing a video game that isn't even remotely close to paying you for it, so it's not your job - it is, just a game.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

I already addressed this as an inactive account. Hey watch out! Your iq is showing.....

TeemoJenkinsMar 17, 20152 votes

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I already addressed this as an inactive account. Hey watch out! Your iq is showing.....

You can't use your and you're correctly and making statements about other peoples intelligence? Thank you though for clarifying this is an inactive account though. You feel you can troll on your other account, but when it's "Your main" account people are held to a higher standard? Go back to Elementary school where they teach the appropriate usage of words and come back when you get your 6th grade certificate.

FooDangMar 17, 20152 votes

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I already addressed this as an inactive account. Hey watch out! Your iq is showing.....

Inactive account? #Bronzelife

Ragnar42Mar 19, 20151 votes

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Inactive account? #Bronzelife

Probably started a new account because he couldn't handle being 0-2 in Ranked. I used to do that shit in Starcraft 1 all the time.

DontDieRespawnMar 17, 20153 votes

You sound like a rager, I'd tell you it's just a game too, people that write these posts take the game far to serious, it actually concerns me.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

The key word here was "Sound"

I just came to the forums to vent. I talk rarely in game except to say "GJ" or "GJ Team"

Because I know you can't negotiate with people in this game. I'm just curious about the mentality of people who DON'T take the game seriously yet they waste hours and hours and hours playing wasting their life away when if they just gave a little effort they could actually see reward. But I guess life's just a game so they'd rather waste everyone's time in ranked and just playing around picking champs that make no sense. *sighs

I wish Riot would add a Serious game for players who want to win Mode.

DontDieRespawnMar 17, 20152 votes

You waste your life taking it serious, that is why games are called time wasters, you contradict yourself. If you want to take it serious and think you can be a pro get sponsored make a team, that ends the topic. It is a game, unless you are with like minded people that take it serious expect people like myself to see it as a game and nothing more. i wonder about your mentality taking it serious, I assume you aren't sponsored, therefor it is a game, not a job to take seriously. The point of making others feel bad if you lose, is wrong. You have done it in this thread, I can only imagine the games with you. You calling people failures, where only one of two teams will win make you seem unrealistic and just mean. If I lose one of my three match's and I am on your team, and I say it's "just a game" I am a failure? That is a failed statement, you have no idea my win loss ration and you will not dictate how anyone views a game.

I see you take this game far too seriously. I can say for one, you taking the game seriously enough to post this is a failure, it helps no one, it is pointless.

TyrenMar 17, 20153 votes

I try to win all my games, but if my team losses it's no big deal because it is a game. It's not like if I lose this game I'm out of a job, house, and a car.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

So do you get on this and play to lose ? No. Therefore to you it isn't just a game. It's something you enjoy and would like to win at because let's be real we all like to enjoy our free time and winning is statistically proven to be more enjoyable than losing.

TyrenMar 17, 20151 votes

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So do you get on this and play to lose ? No. Therefore to you it isn't just a game. It's something you enjoy and would like to win at because let's be real we all like to enjoy our free time and winning is statistically proven to be more enjoyable than losing.

Not necessarily, I enjoy really close games more than anything else (even if I lose).

mvargusMar 17, 20152 votes

Very few people play any game thinking "I'm going to deliberately lose today." But that doesn't mean it isn't a game. Football is a game and people play it knowing that they might not win that day. Heck golf is a game and people will play hoping that "today will be the day I break 100" when par is 72 on that course. They know they can't "win" but they enjoy playing.

League is a competitive game that doesn't have the tradition of a handshake at the end, and where you don't have to look your teammates in the eye at the end of the game, so there are toxic people who once you start berating them for not taking it serious will just stop trying. After all, while winning is more enjoyable, listening to a child rant that "we have to win, stop saying "its just a game"!" is so unenjoyable that you end up wanting to lose just to ruin his day.

You need to grow up quite a bit. League is a game. It will always be just a game to many people playing it. Unless you want to be eternally disappointed and angry you need to accept that.

Jeddy017Mar 17, 20151 votes

But we can't win every game.No matter how hard one tries,they'll still lose almost half of the games they play. That's called life,not everything will go your way even if you work really hard to make it go your way.No point in getting upset over a common aspect of life,especially over a god damn video game.

HobbsgoblinMar 17, 20153 votes

OH, he got us, we were expecting a letter and this is not a properly formatted letter at all. No greeting or signature, such a troll move. Good one OP, good one.

IcyPepperMar 17, 20152 votes

People tend to say "it's just a game" when people either rage at them or get overzealous. It's just a reality check to keep you from becoming a tryhard. Yes, ranked is a competitive environment, but even NFL players love their job. You shouldn't be playing just to win.

ALthaGreatMar 17, 20151 votes

i have never heard anyone, not even a fan of the NFL (except housewives who don't understand sports while their husbands on the couch watching the game) say "It's just a game."

IcyPepperMar 17, 20152 votes

I never said that they did. I specifically said they love their job. Nothing else.

And if we go down that route, LCS is the NFL. Where we're at is college football (plat-diamond), high school varsity (gold), high school intramural (silver), and in the park with our friends to practice (bronze).

Unless your scholarships are on the line every game, you need to learn how to balance competition and recreation. Ranked games are supposed to be competitive, but you need to remember how to have fun. And if people are telling you that "it's just a game," it's probably because you're raging or need to calm down, and ranked games are never an excuse to be toxic. Maybe that's not the case, but if so it might be good if you just calm down and play some normals if you need to.

mvargusMar 18, 20151 votes

Wow, my whole family uses it. Heck, when I was in college the marching band for the university I attended would say it, and they were some of the most passionate fans you can run into.

There is an understanding in most fan bases that in the end every sport is "just a game." Sure you can be passionate and want to win, but only true jerks are going to start fights over the outcome of a game. Otherwise how could you have SuperBowl parties where fans of both teams show up and are largely friendly. Those people are adults and understand that "it's just a game."