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Does anyone actually play league because they are having fun or is it more like a chore?

YoungFarmer·3/4/2018, 8:39:24 PM·4 votes·7,939 views

Before I get down voted to hell, this isn't a complaint thread or a "League is so fucking Garbo thread" its just a discussion thread.

Back in the olden days of yonder my buddies and I used to hop on league after a long day of school and play normal's. Those games were fun as hell, we would pick unmeta things, goof off, and generally just have fun time. Now over the years about 95% of my buddies have just out right quit playing league which has left me in an interesting spot. I went from a player who primarily played normals to a "try hard" who only plays ranked.

Any way the realization that I may not actually be having fun when I play league came when I started playing fortnite with my buddies (I know eww fortnite). After a few games of fortnite together my buddies and I instantly had flash backs of our old days of league where we used to laugh and were just happy. These flashbacks gave me a realization that I don't actually truly have fun playing league. It feels more like a chore, not a bad chore like cleaning the toilets but more of a chore that you do every day like doing the dishes. I enjoy doing the dishes I get satisfaction after my kitchen is entirely cleaned but I didn't have fun doing the dishes and thats how I feel when I play league.

TL:DR after playing fortnite and having a great time with my pals I realized that league of legends is more like a chore to me, isn't terrible but isn't fun.

Anyone else feel this way?

13 Comments

Project Riven3/4/2018, 11:37:53 PM3 votes

It feels more like an investment that I can't get rid of. It's like, I invested money and a ton of time to get the skins, champs, emotes, etc. and just can't stop because of that.

Sky of Smiles3/4/2018, 8:41:54 PM3 votes

Its a chore.

Abibyama3/4/2018, 9:55:41 PM2 votes

I’ve been playing less league because real life. Hanging out with friends and university and football (not handegg) Mechanical Engineering is not fun man

When I do have time, I find it fun

Kyaza3/4/2018, 9:18:22 PM2 votes

For me, while I enjoy the game still, it has definitely become harder to just hop on and play a game or two,

Stewfayew5/14/2018, 3:39:20 AM2 votes

My trouble was maybe a year into playing ranked. It was all about the points for me. If I lost points, I had to get them back. Like a gambling problem. The champions lost their uniqueness, the meta started to matter, my friends either carried me or had to be carried. I did put a good amount of money in but I don't care so much about that. I don't play anymore because every day I went on a losing streak it felt so depressing and helpless. I just watch other people play. It has been a 6 year journey.

Warlord Rhinark5/14/2018, 6:50:40 AM2 votes

Most of the time I do it in an attempt to have fun.

Notice the word "Attempt".

Here's a list of all the things that make League "not fun"

Game length. This is my first issue with the game. While it isn't fun to have a game end as early as 15 or 20 min, it definitely becomes exhausting once you hit the 35-40 min mark. You also NEED to have a time plan before you queue up for a game because if you know you have to go in 25 min, it's basically a gamble if you queue up for a game because you can't set a certain amount of time the game will take and if you leave there's a chance you get banned. This leads into my next point.
Autofill.

I think this should be pretty self-explanatory. I don't think anyone else thinks autofill is "fun".

Competitiveness. There's always this "serious" aura around League. If you play for fun, you're not playing to win. If you aren't constantly rotating, trading, csing, watching the minimap, providing map pressure, taking objectives, taking the "right" runes, buying the "right" items and so on and so forth, chances are you're going to lose. Even in normals people play with this serious attitude. This leads me into my next point.
Ranked. Ranked is... Oof.

Ranked is probably one of the most stressful experiences known to man. Like I said, once you go into ranked, you're not playing for fun anymore. You're playing to get that sweet sweet LP and you do everything you can to win. It's about climbing that ladder and you don't stop climbing. You HAVE to know your shit when you go into ranked games. You have to either one-trick a champion for the rest of your life or just become a meta-slave and play the most broken champion with the most broken runes and the most broken build at the time. This leads into my next point.

When certain things are "meta" and other things are "complete garbage". The fact that some champions are simply stronger than others whilst the ones you play yourself are weaker. This doesn't make the game balanced and whilst it is possible to win, it's definitely harder for you than it is for them. Like I said earlier, you either have to become a god at the certain champion you want to play (which isn't always possible. Read "Complete garbage") or conform and become a meta slave. There's really not much af an option. Who decides all of this? The community. This leads into my final point.
The community.

Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh booooooooooooooooyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

The community is complete shit. Let's be honest here.

Games are rarely fun for me, even if I play them FOR fun. It's mostly only fun when I get fed or when I win. Losing just leaves this bittersweet taste in your mouth because most of the time it's not always your own fault for losing. If your botlane plays like crap and goes 0/7 you lose. If your jungler runs it down mid and feeds, you lose.

And nowadays, it's become really hard for people to solo carry the game. There's no individuality. You either win together or you lose together.

This is what makes the game not fun for me.

Audhulma3/4/2018, 9:20:33 PM1 votes

The last few times I logged in was purely a chore. All I wanted was my FwotD, then it was on to better things. Haven't played in a while though, around xmas / early january IIRC.

im not tock sick3/4/2018, 11:44:59 PM1 votes

There's usually 1 or 2 champs that are fun at a time.. finding them is the hard part

right now it's Yasuo

last season it was Jax

j0ny9am3s9/1/2018, 8:37:06 PM1 votes

Chore.

Nut on my Butt3/4/2018, 9:50:19 PM1 votes

If it weren't fun for me, I 100% would have moved on by now.

GalacticBears3/4/2018, 9:24:24 PM1 votes

Sometimes I think I'm just addicted... I have been a gamer all my life, but I have been playing League consistently the longest (been on/off 2010). I was once seriously competitive in Halo (played against Walshy once or twice for those that know...I lost obviously :P), but after my intense interest in that waned I picked up League.

Now unlike a lot of people I got into League for the oddest reason. The toxic community made me want to stick it to them. I hate arrogance that's only there because people are veterans at something. That being said once I got good (I reached D5 on an alt. acc.) I WAS this community. I only played my lane, I only played my champ, and if things didn't go well I was flaming everyone and anyone. This carried out into real life. That's when it became an issue for me. That account was perm-banned long ago and I took a year/two break from League only playing a match here/there. When I returned I played even less, and even now that I'm "fully back" (I'm nowhere near the old time I used to regularly log) I balance it out. I take breaks, I liberally use the ignore feature, I compliment people any chance I can, and TRY to stay out of non-game related chats.

That ban changed the game a ton for me, but now that I'm trying to get back into the tier I want to be in I'm finding it feels tedious. Obviously I have a large skill gap to overcome and relearning to be done, because the game's changed a ton, but I don't know if I want to? I mean just the time it took to get there and the player base really hasn't changed that much...it's hard to grind it out like that now. Plus I'm an adult with adult responsibilities now...

I can't play too many norms, because even though it says competitive in the description, people treat it like a joke, but playing ranked...its just stressful now. Unless you get that golden match with good back and forth and both teams are equally matched, which is what I call a unicorn match, it's predictable. If I was a mathematician I'm sure I could make an algorithm to predict all low elo (G3 and below) matches. Idk

I'm not sure if I'm playing for fun or because I'm addicted, I know fun factors in but sometimes I just go into this game and play on only instinct...