Why I would not recommend LOL to a friend.

I told my step son about League when I saw it one a youtuber's channel. I thought that it looked cool. I didn't know at the time it was one of the most popular games in the world. I originally saw the appeal. It was free and it was like a chess match between two different teams. But then I started to learn the ins and outs of how the game was put together and the Type of company Riot seemed to be based on the constant balancing champs had to go through.

I still think its fun but it is more simplistic than I thought at first. There really isn't that many different strategies you can use to win. I'm talking like in chess you have various openers and attacks. How many does LOL have? I thought all the champs were viable at one time. Once I fell into the understanding of the meta I knew what made sense on a basic level I thought... oh this is all there is.

I hit level thirty and it was like the flood gates of Mordor opened up and trolls came out. Now I can barely remember what it was like when I was having fun learning new things. I see something new every now and then. I use to think that I would find a group of good people to play with and we would organically form a team. How would I know that most people that find a group that love playing together despised playing ranked. And the toxicity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At one point I was duped into thinking that Riot cared a little about its player base because of the TRIBUNAL. Then they took it away in an attempt to automate it (I guess). Companies do that. "Boss said a computer can do my job better than me."

This thing called "Solo Queue" would be what everyone graded themselves by. It was odd to me considering this is team based game. Ranked seems like just more normals when you are in Bronze or Silver and I am told it doesn't get better the higher you go. Urf the first time around got me playing again. But the second coming..... eh. Ya know.

All in all you get what you pay for. It was fun for a while but like a Plat player smurfing.... I got bored. A game this old would have been on its second or third iteration and players would have been yelling for new mechanics and at least a different board to play on. I guess when a game is free the player base lowers its standards. Ya know if they wanted to expand strategic diversity or heighten game mechanics they would put meta breaking champs int the game or add another role. I can think of a few concept off the dome. I'm sure they have too but I guess its easier to keep doing what you are doing. We don't flex muscles we don't have to use.

I would not recommend this experience to a friend. How is that Tribunal coming?