Why I'm Losing Interest
I've uninstalled several times over the last few months and pretty much the only thing that makes me come back is my friends. Then I got to the point again where I was playing more than them and I've come to the conclusion that there's no point. Games are supposed to be fun and for me this one is going in the opposite direction. Aside from the obvious gripes that everyone has- Terrible matchmaking, buggy client, burst-heavy meta, etc... Here are some things I've come to realize make the game so frustrating:
Lack of Precision: A couple weeks ago we had a rioter confirm what all of us already knew from just playing the game- The hitboxes are intentionally misleading. They claimed this made the game more enjoyable, which I completely disagree with. I think if something looks like it hit, then it should hit, and if it doesn't look like it hit then it shouldn't. This is a game with fixed rules, there shouldn't be any room for uncertainty. Aside from this, there's also the fact that stuns and roots are a total crapshoot as to whether they'll work or not. I personally love it when I walk up to Darius with no QSS as Malzahar, press R on him, and then a full second into the duration of my suppression ult he uses his E to pull me out of it and wins the fight. That shouldn't happen. Why do I hit Ezreal with Morg Q only for him to use E to blink away a full second later? It's ridiculous. The game that made me uninstall this most recent time was one where I stunned Sylas with Xerath E and was kiting back to my tower, at which point he threw out both casts of his E while stunned the whole time, then caught me and finished me off. What's the point? I have no certainty as to whether my skills will ever actually do what they say they will.
And what's with this new death recap where you can take four or five hundred damage from "Unknown"? Unknown?! You guys coded this game, how do you not know what killed me? If the guys running the show can't give me an explanation for why I died, then I shouldn't have died and you can't change my mind on that.
I don't really know who I'm writing this for, I guess I just kinda needed to get this off my chest. Peace, and I hope if you guys keep playing that you can find some way to enjoy yourselves. I really can't anymore. I'm just gonna switch over to the card game and call it on league. 2013-2020. Not wasting my time on it anymore.