I don't play _too _ much, but after a day or two I get the urge to play a game, I get this strange idea that LoL is exciting and fun (it is, but sadly most games are full of toxicity, which makes the game experience negative). It might be because league has been a game I've played for over 4 years, idk.
Point is, how do you break an addiction to League?
Earl Eulrich11 votesjust wait for next preseason, if it´s anything like the last it´ll get you off league really fast.
MunchCrunchLunch2 votesyeah i started around a month before the preseason. and the changes bummed me out. i still played a lot but i didn't like the game as much. i still haven't enjoyed league as much as i did before the last preseason. game too fast paced and snowbally and it hasn't changed since then
Shadòw5 votes
Keevalroy3 votesI broke mine playing during Season 6. My last game was in the beginning of July with sparse interactions with League toward the end - haven't played since. The only thing I'm missing is how the game used to be. Since this shitshow of a season started, I can still count on one hand how many things I actually liked about it. To me, Season 6 is to League as Cataclysm was to WoW...a miserable failure and a mistake to implement. The similarities are too scarily close to ignore.
Edit: And upon reading the preseason changes, I can safely say that for now, I'm fucking done. I've been playing since season 2, I watched this game reach its highest points in popularity, balance, health, and overall fun, and now we continue on with their decline in season 7. You pretentious, egotistical assholes have learned nothing from any of the previous updates, any of the previous seasons, or any of the feedback your non-leg-humping community has given you. You continue to suggest that you hear us, you know how we feel, you lie and say our criticism means something - fuck off. The only reason you brought back solo queue, finally released replays, and are building a sandbox mode is because you know how hard Season 6 fell flat on its face, and want to bring back or retain what veteran players you have left that haven't been driven away by your idiocy.
Oh power creep is a problem? Let's revamp the mastery system and load all of the power into bullshit keystones, and with them, let's revamp the items to give a shit ton of penetration to further encourage snowballing.
RNG is a confirmed issue, but random dragons, crit, randomly spawning champion interactives, and fucking PLANTS are just fine right?
Mobility creep is on your radar? Oh is it?? Because literally right after this was said, you released Kalista. Are you fucking serious? Then we have Gnar, Kindred, Ekko, Ahri's retarded Q speed, mobility shoved into reworks for no reason and then protected, Kat doesn't have a ward hop anymore, but holy shit you probably couldn't bear the thought of Lee losing his precious wall jumps could you Riot? And then there's protobelt, which did exactly what we told you it would do and gave free burst engages to teamfight champions which would be problematic, and then gave mobile champions EVEN MORE MOBILITY, as if that was somehow not considered. You know what was considered? That according to you, the a non-mobile champion's answer to mobility...is adding mobility.
And speaking of mobility, this one you don't see - the overloading of kits just to make them unique, and with them comes added mobility because why not. It's as if you don't know what you want any of these champions to do, so you just cram everything you can think of into a kit, load them with passives and situational effects, allow resourceless mobility, and allow them to spam all of their abilities without punishment. That's not fun, that's fucking obnoxious. But wait, I should take back that first part - it IS fun, but only for the person playing them, because who cares about how the rest of the players feel right? Is that why CertainlyT is still allowed to touch champions? Because he can appeal to the low attention spans of the players you're trying to bring into the game from watching the #LC$BIGPLAY$ on the big screen since the vets have largely bought all that they're interested in? Welp, time for a new crowd to bring in more money.
And finally, the biggest problem facing your company, your delusions of grandeur that League will be a global sport that lasts generations. Ho..lee...shit... You honestly expect this is going to happen don't you? You truly believe this is in your future. Let me be one of the many who told you as you made this announcement to reaffirm my position - if any of you believe this, you're all fucking _insane. _ If a game becomes popular enough to maintain a competitive scene, it should be treated as an unintended side effect of a game being good. If you design specifically for a spectator event, it will fail, as we've seen with Heroes of the Storm, which was stillborn despite Blizzard funneling money into it, and STarcraft, directly related to spectator focus. Unfortunately you can't see this at the moment because League is still the most popular game in the world, but when you fully commit to the spectator experience being more important to design to than the actual game, you will begin to lose players faster than you already are.
I know during this time of year the white knights swarm the media platforms and praise anything you're releasing as they always do, and you get sucked up into this vortex of positivity and praise, forgetting that just because something is new and arguably "fun" doesn't mean it's healthy and / or balanced. You only come to that conclusion long after enough of the bootlickers have been silenced and you're forced to accept that a controversial idea was actually a bad idea, and it's a shame really, that we could have told you ahead of time if an army of drooling monkeys hadn't blocked all of the "nay-saying" and "incessant whining" that "salty veterans" tend to do when you're "improving" the game...
So for now, congratulations Riot, you win. Maybe you'll come to your senses eventually, and no, I'm not fooled by the PR moves since I've seen quite enough of them to know you don't mean half the shit you say and it's just to placate the angry masses. As such, I'm not holding my breath for genuine concern to come back to design and balance. I suppose I'll check back in a few months, but why spoil a gift to you now? You got what you wanted; one less player calling you out on your bullshit.
Melledoneus3 votesUninstall. The mere time it takes to install League will discourage you.
GULAG 4 U1 votesAgreed : ^)
BananaJannana1 votesUninstall. The mere time it takes to install League will discourage you.
it only takes about 2 hours
ReZisT Lust3 voteshardcore shrooms
[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]
Quil Evrything2 votesErrr.. playing 1 game every day or two, doesnt sounds like an addiction to me.
If you were playing 3 games a day every day, that would be more of an addiction.
And the solution for that sort of thing is pretty straightforward: Uninstall.
Kinda like "how do I stop smoking?" Stop buying cigarettes. duh.
BananaJannana2 votes[{quoted}](name=Quil Evrything,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=tV70xWX4,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2016-10-18T16:25:53.548+0000)
Errr.. playing 1 game every day or two, doesnt sounds like an addiction to me.
If you were playing 3 games a day every day, that would be more of an addiction.
And the solution for that sort of thing is pretty straightforward: Uninstall.
Kinda like "how do I stop smoking?" Stop buying cigarettes. duh.
I actually used to play a LOT last year, like at least 4 games a day. Luckily this season has been shitty and so I've been playing much less.
The thing with addictions is that the uninstalling won't remove the urge to play, the same way not buying cigarettes doesn't remove a smoker's urge to smoke. The urge eventually wins and the smoker buys a pack -> I'll reinstall
What I need is a way to kill the urge
Quil Evrything1 votesHere's how you kill the urge. It's called "willpower."
Uninstall. Then when the urge hits to reinstall it... go do something else instead. Remove yourself from your computer, even.
another addiction simple wisdom: how do drunks lessen the urge to drink? step #1: stop hanging out in bars. (step #2: stop hanging out around other people who drink)
After a year (or maybe 6 months), you wont care about it any more.
CerealBoxOfDoom2 votesto break an addiction you need to properly identify precisely what you are addicted to and consider some alternative or some plan to quit harder if its that bad
iTaLenTZ2 votesAsk Repertoir to rework your main champs. You will quit playing this game in no time
SKT T1 JungMain1 voteshahahahahhahhaha
Galaqy2 votesbreak pc
ShinkoMinori1 votesLEAGUE?!!? FUN?!!?!?
MLDzXnRRR1 votesUninstall... I will install the game again only when they release some new champions or reworks.
ForFoxSakes1 votesReplace it with something else you can do anytime and eventually your habit will change
Only Play Darius1 votesLeague is such a cheap hobby though. The worst things in life come free to us
Nameless Voice1 votesIf we knew the answer to that, then there would be a lot fewer players, especially in ranked.
Naenia1 votesLoLA - League of Legends Anonymous
The Deckowner1 votesuninstall.
Quil Evrything1 votesSide comment: maybe this is a mispost. Doesnt it belong under "Player behaviour and moderation"?
:D
kile1471 votesDestiny: Rise of Iron came out recently, I don't know if I've played an actual game since I got it...
(I still haunt the boards so that I'm up to date when I eventually make my return)
SelflessTeammate1 votesLet me try in a serious manner, with actual addiction-breaking logic instead of these "just uninstall" and "use willpower" posts, because that doesn't work. It's the equivalent of saying "just get over it" to someone suffering schizophrenia, if on a smaller, but significant enough, scale. I'm gonna try to make this super-brief without critically oversimplifying addiction logic.
Doing anything pleasurable, including League, sometimes carries an urge. League legitimately can carry a "high", and honestly that's what it's designed to do, like most "addictive" games (in addition to everything else, World of Warcraft's level-up sound and animation was designed to be as addictive as possible so you'd want it again, but it would also be harder to get as you got more levels. It's hard to argue that it wasn't working at least in that aspect). When you get that urge to feel that high that comes from League again, you need a plan as to how to act on it. So you need to find something you can do in place of League, while simultaneously avoiding anything that can trigger that urge.
I can't tell you what you can do in place of League, that's something you learn by experimenting. In my particular case (with regards to simply doing something instead of League, not really breaking an actual addiction but close enough), it was audiobooks, especially educational ones with college lectures and the like, because I like learning. Eventually I just enjoyed audiobooks enough to not even think about what I used to do much, if at all. At some point the activity (or activities) you do instead of League overwrites that urge to play League altogether, and a different habit forms. You just find something else enjoyable that you can do instead.
It's also helpful to minimize the number of associations you have with League, whatever they are. Heavy drinkers or smokers can have something as simple as leaving work and being in a particular spot where they used to just think about it be a trigger for them. Try to avoid those, if you can, or at least keep them to a minimum. That includes web sites referencing League, or anything you find gives you that urge again.
TheHappyReaperz1 votesYou don't
GULAG 4 U1 votesBy uninstalling
TheCaligrapher1 votesPlay something else, like cs go or cod kappa*[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]*
Okamikazi1 votesYou dont break the addiction, Riot does it for you.
DunkinNoobs1 votesGet addicted to a different game. Civilization 6 comes out in 2 days.
Gilrom1 votesGet your main champion ruined. Upcoming Rengar changes totally turned me off from playing.