Has anyone else not been motivated to play League lately?
Now first: Happy New Year. Just wanted to throw that out.
But back to my main topic, I just haven't been motivated to try and get in matches of League lately. I've just grown tired of the direction the game has and is still taking, into this Dota-snowball fest because that's honestly what it feels like.
First blood & first tower contribute to who wins the game, towers themselves feel like a joke still, & bot lane still feels like the true decider of a game while top are still on that isolated island of theirs with little impact (unless you're someone like Tryndamere, Yorick, or Nasus).
Damage feels overall too high, especially with the new runes. Speaking of runes, I don't ever get the feeling like they're actually runes but more like an updated mastery page. There are no major runes to help bruisers that much outside of Grasp, which feels very limiting, or damage over time mages.
Rotating games are a joke to me. All it ever gives is Poro King, Nexus Seige, or Ascension repeatedly. We've gotten some other game modes back like Doom bots or Dark Star Singularity, but those only come around every now and again per year. We've still have yet to get one-for-all, one of my favorite game modes, or Hexakill or, hell, even Nemisis which when I look it up has only played once but I'd like to try it again.
And let's not forget the beating around the ruined URF that most people loved so much and how their latest version has upset so many fans. And get this: they're latest ask Riot talked about it and said that URF caused people to leave. I'm fairly certain you're still causing people to leave by changing one of the most popular game modes by the community, which at this point I believe to be a used to be.
Let's not forget the super annoying amount of champions in the game now like Yasuo still, Fizz, Fiora, Zoe now and the champions that I swear are just Riot's spoiled little shits that they don't give any real nerfs to like Lee Sin (FUCK LEE SIN! I'M SICK OF SEEING HIM IN GENERAL!).
Orange essence is down and gives little value to unlock skins, Blue essence takes a while to unlock due to chests giving low value shards, loot boxes are still shit, & gemstones aren't worth it to me anymore because of said loot boxes or the level required to earn them naturally.
What it comes down to is this: Damage is just beyond insane at this point, games still revolve around snowballing and bot lane, there's not that much variety in game modes to choose from majority of the time, crafting feels like it's been gutted badly this preseason.
And because of that, the game just doesn't feel that much fun anymore. Every time I log on I don't ever feel like playing against real people cause I'm either going to get stuck with teammates that are trolls or are toxic. Hell I can't ever bring myself to play AI since I hate going top lane in the stupid 2v1, which is still a pet peeve of mine, and they don't really bring any huge challenge unless one teammate purposely trolls or is a bot.
I've been more motivated to try other games to almost replace League at this point, like Paragon, Battlerite, and even HotS. I really just don't see a reason to continually keep diving into games like this if this is the direction Riot is continually taking the game that I loved a long time ago but now have just begun to hate now.