Riot had this game just right around beginning of season 3
This game was near perfect at that point.
Everyone was fairly balanced, proper counterplay was in order. All items were cool, and items that were even more broken than now were ok because you could do things to outplay or counter it.
But then you started making more and more resourceless champions, champions with increasingly less and less flaws in their kit. Becoming near perfect.
Jayce is a pretty big marker for a start. Nobody in the game had as many perks and less downsides as he did. People were basic and had one task and one objective, then you started making "Flexible" champions that could do more than one task, and BETTER than anyone else. Everyone had one job, then someone came in with three jobs, doing them at 110%. Whiping out champ after champ.
Before that you were concerned about having a good game and a nice community, not "OH WHAT WILL MAKE US THE MOST DOLLA DOLLA BILLLSSSSSS" and you actually LISTENED to us instead of acting like you know more about what we know then we ourselves do. Which you don't.
Then you stop showcasing community creations because it doesn't make you money or publicity, then you stopped releasing content AT ALL almost ENTIRELY, then removed the few fun things out of the game we actually LIKED, and what we still managed to cling onto, you ruined that too.
No one had overloaded kits, now almost every modernly released champion has 6 or 7 things that's tacked on for no apparent reason and can perform adequately WITHOUT them.
Then you couldn't get over your arrogant creations, once people finally evolved and made a way to play against your creations, you took those things out.
Oh ADC's are going hard? Nerf all armor and health items and nerf randuins.
Oh our broken mages are getting stronger? Remove force of nature.
Oh junglers and supports are keeping up in gold with the rest of the lanes? Remove Philo stone and heart of gold.
Now this game is, well, corrupt. Driven by greed and arrogance.
The sad part is, is no other game has yet to grasp the perfect game you had at the time. Something easy to grasp, but the game changes once you know more about it, you can micromanage or macromanage, and the entire world is in your hands because the choices YOU make can determine the outcome of a game.
But now new players are struggling harder than ever before to play the game with the crap you call balance coming out, and games are determined by which team has the mindless feeder.
I keep coming back to this game, with a sliver of hope that it may change someday. But deep down I know that it wont, and I wish I could find something the same.
So my final note to riot games:
The majority of you fucking suck and are a sellout. A company has the right to make money, but you don't need to step on peoples dreams and ideas to do so, while giving them the middle finger saying that your arrogant self righteous bullshit mind knows better than we do. The remainder of the good people either left or sold out and didn't speak up, you suck too. I truly wish your company would go bankrupt and stops making the game and the few good employees left find a better job than they have now.
and
up there with the gods... good times :