People are quitting League.

Edit 1: adding TL:DR.

TL:DR: There's been a course of changes to the game since season 1, changes making players leave and players stay or have new players join. I personally been feeling pretty burnt out from the game from changes and I'm just pointing out things that I disagree on and agree on with the state of the game.

As a player that has been around since the end of season 1, this game has changed. Well no *&$%! Okay, You're not wrong, but... not just like a patch note every Tuesday. It was not even too long ago I could sit down and play about 10 matches of this game without getting too bored, or too frustrated. It just feels like every game is just so serious, it's so easy to become tilted and to be flamed each match, even before the match starts. Even playing with friends isn't fun anymore. We have the same champions, the same map, the same goal of the game everyday, every match. I know what you're saying, what about the "rotating game modes"? Hear me out. These modes do feel fresh and are nice to come back to and play once and a while, but how often do you play, let's say, "urf"? As Riot has explained, the game gets a huge spike of players when urf is available, then descending player count as the game mode rotates. Besides that, let's say your favorite game mode is ascension. You've played a few games, had some fun, games over. Repeat, repeat, repeat. You leveled up and opened your champion capsule to find an Ashe shard. Disenchant for 90 BE. Time goes by, the game mode is done. What now? There's some issues I have with this. I... HATE. How riot decided to turn IP into BE, it makes no sense. I did some testing and played until I leveled up. I played 15 games until I leveled up including first win of the day. I earned a champion capsule and received an Evelynn shard. Most of the time I earn champion shards of characters I already own, or champion shards of characters I don't prefer to play. Okay, now comparing to the old currency system I would earn about 90-180+ IP. Do the simple math of multiplying the amount earned to the x number of matches played you will almost always get a higher number of IP currency compared to how earning BE is.

To rant about some other things, here we go. Reporting toxic people doesn't seem to get them banned ever anymore, unless they are toxic on a stream and the streamer is friends with a riot member. Muting is a risk of important game knowledge of what's going on during the match or if they are calling a shot. There are 100+ champions but it feels like I play against/with about the same 30-35 every game. When someone leaves/dc from the match and it goes on to a loss, the remaining players aren't compensated from loss or rewarded extra for winning a 4v5 if won. People are playing ranked games for "fun", playing champions they are first time playing or under bad conditions of computer or time/environment. Fun items have been deleted or reworked into boring garbage. I feel like there isn't enough runes, or enough runes to give power to under played champions to make them playable. ^ You can only seem to play meta characters/team comps or you lose/flamed. Not enough events or rotations are coming out or take for ever to happen. We don't need missions only available from new skins coming out to champions with already 5-6+ skins. Some characters only have 1-2 skins still. The game HEAVILY requires teamwork and cooperation, there being different types of people in this game, this can be hard to accomplish and if not done correctly, you lose pretty much every time. Cool/fun summoner spells or situational summoner spells have been removed. Weird plants in the river and in jungle... I feel like the jungle is closed in and in a tight space, especially near baron and dragon and this is a really awkward place to teamfight a lot of the times. Death timers are VERY long and 1 death can be the end of the game, heck old runes had -% time of death timers, this should say something. If a game goes on too long gold feels really useless, not much more items to buy to make your self any better, while at the same time in the early game there's not enough gold for anything big, you're best buying some hp pots and just farming for 6 minutes to get 1 item. I also feel like jungler respawn timers are VERY long and the buffs don't last a long time, on top of that you can only get buffs from dragon, baron, blue and red/ scuttle. We need more variety. The "fill" system that automatically fills people into roles they don't play/don't want is VERY stupid and VERY frustrating! Games are lost because of this! I would rather wait another 3-5 ,minutes than waste 30-50 minutes because someone or I didn't get the role I'm good at/ being forced to dodge or deal with a troll that tried to make others dodge. The elo system of allowing lets say, plat players play with gold's and diamonds is very controversial! These elo's are completely different with different people, different skill levels, different strategies, different about everything! People in gold should play with and against others in gold. Same for any other elo. This is a huge unbalance for everyone. The pricing of skins seems unfair and rather ridiculous, especially chroma packs, like who the **** came up with that. Misuse of pinging, chat, in game interactions like /taunt or /laugh - going past the limit of in game "banter". The toxic community looking up to certain toxic people and even in some cases defending toxic people who were banned or perma banned. This list goes on.. and on..

People are quitting this game, most recently Nightblue3. Nightblue, if you are reading this, I don't blame you. This game isn't fun like it used to be, it's very repetitive and stressful. I go to people streaming like Dyrus, redmercy, gbay and honestly a lot of the time their facial expression says more than what the words they speak. They look stressed, exhausted, bored, pained and tired, can you blame them? On top of that all the social pressure they have to deal with being a streamer. The misuse of reddit, these fourms, report system, social media, things that shouldn't go viral go viral like wild fire. Besides that the trash talk fans have on Esports players. Anyone remember Dyrus leaving TSM? I balled my eyes out, I could feel his pain when ever a post about how "bad" he is or how he "should be removed/replaced", people judging the crap out of him every move, like do we see you playing in pros? Didn't think so. I could feel his pain every time he was camped top or when the game was on his shoulders. I don't blame him for quitting the competitive scene, I respect him for that.

Besides that, there are some good things I do have to say.

I like the leveling system of going past level 30, I just hate how they went extra with it and changed BE with it too. Keep the IP, and keep the leveling system. Reworks on champions and VGUs. New game modes coming out, lore, champions, updates, information of runetarra has become easier to read and study. The music, art work of certain champions and cinematics. New rune system, old rune system was boring and quite expensive if you didn't play a lot. Honor system, especially honor system, one of the best things to happen in league. Replays of cool game moments, funny moments, glitches, inside jokes, etc. In game tips, rework of tutorial, towers, minions, base, in game mechanics. ( to an extent.) The PBE - client testing of new champions, abilities, anything. Also, I have been in the PBE before and the team is very nice and listen to all feedback. The test client where you can spawn in targets, use teleport on any part of the map, infinite gold/xp. This was a very huge success and works well for people trying new things. The positive side of the community is very reassuring, it's very nice to see someone who is genuine in saying good job or keeping the game together with positive communication. Riot teaming with colleges to take people in who are serious with going somewhere in their life with Esports/gaming, this is a big thumbs up. The certain riot staff that have been there and done their job correctly and have showed maturity through harsh times. Adding ARAM/reworking twisted treeline. Adding rotating game modes/events/quests. Balance patches to bugs or things that are unfair. (unlike removing things that are fun.) This list goes on for a little.

If you are read this all of this, I want to say thank you for your time and hopefully we can have something done to bring back players or just change a part of the game in general to make it feel like "old" league.