@People who are mad over the state of the game for some time now: Lets just accept the truth

iTaLenTZ··8 votes·567 views

I am a season 3 veteran and uninstalled 6 months ago and was my best decision ever. I felt really upset over the direction of the game and was constantly frustrated by the devs, balance team and champ designers over the course of the game. In the end my frustration prevented me from enjoying the game and made me toxic ingame so it was better to quit playing. Season 5 was the best and most fun season I played and compared to the current state of league the game lacks strategy (just snowball and stomps every game), champ diversity, decision making diversity (we used to have several runes and masterie pages for just 1 champ, now we have the same runes and masterie setuo for every champ) but what it lacks the most is FUN.

I remember a post from a while back about Riot in the old days when they started developping LoL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKbeDeu5Wbk The conclusion is that their current Lead Head Designer realized they were on the right track after months of muddling through when their staff started playing the game for FUN. I really want to know how many Rioters still play the game for fun and if they didn't have more fun back in other seasons.

But lets not forget that league is ultimately a business model. Lets also not forget that we have already amortized the game. There is not much money to gain from veterans who already have all the champs, most of the skins they want and runes and masteries are now free. Hence the current BE changes etc and focus on new players aka customers. Until they have been amortized and they will be replaced just like us.

If the current changes mean they lost less players (money) than they gained than these were the right choices how hard that may seem for players like us who lost the game we loved. If it is the opposite then it is time for Riot to do some very serious evaluation and start communicating with us openly about it.

All good things end.

7 Comments

Tonyob205 votes

Hurts but ur right. But to be honest, blue essence is a punch in the balls for new players too. ^^

Kai Guy5 votes

" and uninstalled 6 months ago." + " the current state of league the game lacks strategy (just snowball and stomps every game)" = I'm a bit confused. Did you at some point reinstall thus have experience with current state of league or is this an exercise in observation and hypothesizing?

JackMcSnipeyz5 votes

I dont get it are you people so insecure about uninstalling a game you have to (supposedly) come back 6 months later to try to convice other people to leave with you? If you arent enjoying the game, fine you can leave, you can make posts about how you think it should improve. But i never got those "im leaving guys so let me try to convince you why im right" who cares?

iTaLenTZ1 votes

I watch the boards, reddit and YouTube to check the state of the game because I was curious if season 8 would improve things. Don't get me wrong, I still miss League I just don't miss current League.

But you seem to miss the main point I am trying to say. The main point is 'we' (the angry players) should stop feeling entitled that Riot has to make the game to our likeness when there isn't enough money/extra players for them to gain from it.

When changing the game leads to me leaving but 2 others joining and enjoying the game and spending more money than I would then it is a completely worthwile business trade-off. It sucks for me and the other angry players but we should start accepting that instead of daily flaming Ghostcrawler on the boards etc. If the game is growing and making more money they are taking the right decisions unfortunately at our expense. It would be nice from Riot if they showed us actual numbers about playerbase growth, revenue etc.

Shuriman Curator4 votes

I stopped playing entirely, the longest I've been away from the game and honestly I don't mind. I just visit the boards to see the shit show lol.

MOuHahaHAhahaaaa2 votes

I remember back in the first seasons when rioter answered directly some balance threads made by the players and were close to its community. Now... I miss Morello.

ChaddyFantome1 votes

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I remember back in the first seasons when rioter answered directly some balance threads made by the players and were close to its community. Now... I miss Morello.

i mean, that's mostly just the nature of a game becoming popular. You have to understand there are just too many people for Riot to reasonably answer everyone now.

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