Streamers on twitch still play league but most of them focus on different games nowadays like TFT or fire emblem and whatnot and I personally don't play as much league anymore so I was wondering what the general point of view was on this subject.
yeah.. & when streamers do play league rarely do they look like they're having fun
I just love this contrast Riot is having You have the music,design and story developing teams doing an excelent job at keeping the game fresh and interesting And then you have the balance team throwing all the other team's work in the trash by their horrendous balancing choises.
Only 7 people on my full friends list have been on in a year.
Riot cares more for pro play than they do for the ladder, no wonder nobody has fun playing this anymore.
TFT is kind of a league of legends game mode tho So it should be counted as League of legends imo TFT was a mistake anyway
All my friends quit years ago. Like Season 4. I'm the only fool who played beyond that. I regret it in all honesty.
a large portion of the community is toxic and its pushing people away once they get tired of it.
It's obvious a lot of people are losing interest. They are trying to bait players into even watching LCS by adding events and avatars you obtain by "participating" in watching matches.
Years ago riot NEVER had to do this. The game had diversity and fun to it. Now it's boring to watch the same champ picks over and over again. Everyone has some form of %hp dmg, true dmg, or w.e gimmick + a ton of mobility to forgive any bad plays made.
The game is nearly 10 years old. People slowly stop playing video games as they get older. I have no idea if new players are replacing the older players.
I stopped playing for about 6 months, semi-intentionally. Part of it was I was busy, part of it was The Amazing Spiderman release convinced me to buy a PS4, so I had to play through that and a few other console games I missed.
But I picked league back up and I've been enjoying it more than ever.
I mean if you enjoy auto chess than league is fun for you, needs more game modes if its going to be fun for me
I still play but rarely ever invite other people to play with me anymore and I've pretty much completely stopped buying RP entirely for a season or two now.
for me queue times are incredibly high as compared to a couple months ago (pre-TFT and r%%%%%ed patches)
Sad to say but the game has been dying for several seasons. The refusal to remove one-shot assassin meta is because it's "exciting" to watch, and esports/skins are where they make their money. If they balanced the game properly and reduced damage (or increased defense, whatever works) then the pro-play matches would be "less exciting" and less people would watch. That means less money.
It's also the reason (guessing, but likely right) why chromas were introduced, to increase skin sales more by doing less work than making a skin from scratch.
And the removal of TT and permanent addition of TFT is 100% because they can make money off of Little Legends. It's also the reason they don't allow people to buy them individually and have them in groups, so that you spend more money to get the one you want.
In reality they didn't need to do anything with games like Nexus Blitz, TT, Dominion, etc other than bug fix. But these game modes don't produce money and cost money when there is an issue. Is likely what Riot thinks.
Long story short, Riot is following business logic while ignoring good game design logic (which yes does include fun/decent balancing) to make more money because they know that League of Legends is dying and they don't really want to make a full new game that isn't League of Legends (and no TFT is not a new game it still League of Legends).
fuck this game
bring back nexus blitz
I've had to remove 150+ people from my friend's list in the past month due to 100+ days of inactivity, in a mass account cleanup.
Many of them were adults who were starting to get married and have kids, others got permabanned, found the current meta too exhausting or got mentalboomed some way or another.
That's exactly what is going to happen, i can't wait for the time when a lot of ppl leaves the game, so riot understands their fatal mistake and imo it will happen at the start of s10
Where have you been the last 3 seasons?
The balance of the game has been going down since season 6 (probably before that even). Streamers are getting tired of the poor balance decisions. Alot of players like myself are done with League until Riot figures out their shit.
Been playing religiously since about the middle of 2014. Played just about every single day for a few hours at least. Haven’t particularly enjoyed the game since the end of 2017 or so. I realized I kept playing in hopes Riot would fix their mistakes... In other words, I merely tolerated the game and played it to pass the time. The amount I played soon went down to about a few times a week, and now I’m to the point where I’m so sick of everything that it’s a miracle if I even play once or twice a month (if that).
the game is dying and Riot way to fix it is to massive spam internet with ads insead of fixing its problems lmao. A friend got like 50 loweffort different ads on youtube for League of Legends, not to say that was the cringiest ads possible and not even appealing.
Pretty much all of my friends quit around Season 5 or maybe even Season 6 and I'm basically the only from the group still playing. Can't really say I'm enjoying it.
I have honestly been thinking about quitting but since the game has been basically a part of my life for so many years (playing since season 3) I keep playing it thinking it's going to get better and that it can be fun like it used to be but I know that's a lie. Maybe I'm just burning out but the current League isn't the League I loved playing.
My play rate dropped drastically. I lost interest towards the game. Have been playing since Ekko came out and I fell in love with the game, but Idk this season for me was the worst. Past seasons were okay, but this seasons balancing is done horribly without proper justification.
I might be playing only from season 7 and only the end of season 7 but out of 7/8 and 9 - season 7 was better in my opinion "in my opinion guys" also feeling like after season 7 or mabye even previous ones but how can I tell? - the game is going downhill every season
I've personally stopped playing league a lot as well. I just don't have fun playing this game anymore. There's definitely ways to fix this, but RIOT continues to ignore their player base it seems. I feel like once KDA came along I lost interest in how league was run. Introduction of lame prestige skins aka glorified expensive chromas, event passes are a joke, skins don't provide a "wow" factor/reaction (from me) anymore, the game is an unbalanced mess (SR), THERE HAVE BEEN NO RETURN GAME MODES like they promised (Nexus Blitz, DoomBots, Hexakill etc.) and I don't wanna say TFT because I actually like the game mode, but it's a distraction from leagues real problems. I try so hard to be positive about this game, but 2019 in my opinion has been the worst year for league. Maybe sales look good, but overall player satisfaction is at an all time low. :/
Note: I would say URF was a golden mode, but its clear they don't plan on bringing back the original URF we love dearly; instead they prefer its knock off ARURF which for me just isn't as fun. They limit champs, and we don't get to choose who we want to play.
Well when you lose 1 match at GM/Challenger at 0 lp and they say hey now your Diamond 1 for it losing 3 whole divisions Challenger-GM-M-D1 for 1 loss who wants to play?
"Moving forward, when you lose LP while at 0 LP in GM or Challenger you'll immediately be demoted to Diamond 1. One last note—we're making this change across all ranked queues, not just TFT. Riot"
Certainly doesn't help that Riot is removing Twisted Treeline. Once its gone I'm probably switching over to DOTA. I've been thinking about it for a while, but once my third favorite game mode is gone (the first two being Dominion and Ascension) I'll have no reason to stay here. DOTA pretty much does most of the things I've wanted from LoL for years. Unlike Riot, they don't completely neglect their casual playerbase, so they have a lot of variety when it comes to alternative/custom maps & modes.
Hopefully this will make Riot stop focusing on the stupid monetization with 5 skins coming every patch and the stupid """"""""PrEsTiGe""""""""" garbage and focus more on game balance and bug fixing, because it doesn't matter if they say "the game's doing fine" its pretty obvious we are all looking at a very different side.
Well the game is shit and just gets worse as Riot keeps buffing damage
Time will tell. The game is not as good as it once was. The boards show that.
Things I miss
1.Tanks staying alive after a team fight, Zoning, and fights lasting long.
3 Ap Shaco
5 old Rengar ult, and being scared.
Ya my list could go on about the fun days.
My friends list has been empty since URF last left. I'm sure it'll repopulate if URF comes back again. Ranked SR is just played to death and boring at this point, and Riot is unable to evolve and branch out. Their vault holds some fun stuff, but they refuse to open it.
Damage/Mobility creep turned a strategy MOBA game into a Call of Duty Kill fest.
Most people who originally played LoL left because of the changes...myself included.
