League Of Legends: My Story
So a bit of background about me. I've been playing this game since season 2 or whenever the hell rengar came out, the first memory that struck me with this game was when TPA won worlds in 2012. Now, this article is hard to write because season 2 was 7 years ago. I'm a 15-year-old male who's played this game since I was 7 years old when I first saw my cousin playing it who is now in college. I played this game almost religiously for the past 7 years am pretty much half my life I've been playing this game. So even though I'm silver and always have been, yes I admit I'm bad. I still think I have some grounds to speak and have it be true. When I was 7 my Dad died of stage 4 cancer. I was a pretty athletic kid at the time, I played baseball for a couple years and T-ball. But I chose to move into video games, which I didn't have a very high opinion on at least at the time. I mean I played COD black ops when it came out but no game really clicked of me, so I just stayed focused on sports. When I found league I thought the game look interesting, I thought it'd be cool to try out, I don't really remember what was so entrancing about it, but I think it was the fact that game just looked cool. I downloaded the game in October of 2012, I instantly fell in love with the game, being young none of my friends really played with me, so I was all alone for a majority of my league career, which was fine by me, because I thought I was the baddest motherfucker out there every time I got a double kill in twisted treeline. Up until around 2015, when I started middle school, did I really start to open my eyes about the game and play it like it was really for me. I still kept up in sports a bit but had quit baseball and moved to football. The first champ I truly ever being excited for in league, was Azir. I remember being like "wtf is a bird doing here? Why is he golden?" But it wasn't up until 2016 where I finally got not just one, but 10 of my friends into league of legends. Now until then, I didn't have a ton of friends, maybe one or two, but since I was getting more into gaming then into sports at the time, I finally found a friendly group who enjoyed video games. My friends were instantly up into the game, I found it amazing teaching them how to play league effectively and they even challenged me to 1v5's at the time, none of which I won because apparently, ADC soraka was more powerful than I thought. Some of my best memories were playing this game with friends. It was a dream that had finally come true. But in 8th grade, shit kinda hit the fan. Sometime in season 7 my friends just...stopped, they said the game wasn't fun, they said they didn't like it because it was bad. You know, the typical reasons, now they'd come back from time to time, all of them would. But it would never last more than a couple of months. Its now been 7 months since I last played with my friends, and I'm sure they aren't coming back. I've recently also had the same feeling of just...emptiness whenever I play. I lose and it isn't fun anymore, I win and I feel like I just ran 50 miles because I'm being held back by my team. So I'm not enjoying the game like I used to. I don't find this game the most enjoyable, and the happiest thing I have anymore. All my friends have moved on to a different game now and frankly, now, I can see why. The game has gone downhill for 2ish years, I went to this game out of desperation to find something after my dad died, and league of legends I thank you so much for bringing me happiness in my life, it's been a journey and a very wild ride if I can say the least. But now, I think its time to move on and go to other games, there's nothing left for me in this game now. Thank you, league of legends, Riot games, and everyone else who is reading this. I think it's time for me to open a new chapter for video games in my life. And hey, maybe I'll be back, maybe this isn't the end. But I think that because of the current state of the game, I should take a very long break.
Sincerely EvilRubberDucky