Think about how the veterans feel.
I played 3 matches today.
Match 1, I played with a team that included a pair of spanish-speaking players running Lux and Gangplank. They called bot, and proceeded to feed the enemy team the entire match while spamming "jajajajajajajajaja".
Match 2, I took top with someone running Gnar named "420SenpaiBlazer". He proceeded to talk trash to me and the enemy team the entire game, producing such gems as "omg lelel fggts go back 2 cod bruh". After getting tired of his crap, I told him I was muting him and did. I had been going 6/3 and he 1/2 -- after knowing I'd muted him, he began to rush the enemy and set himself up to be double-teamed. By the end of the match, 420SenpaiBlazer went 1/13 and I went 7/9 as I foolishly attempted to fight the well-fed Trydnamere he'd produced. In the postgame lobby, I begged the other team to report our Gnar, but a player named Zenith laughed at me and repeatedly spammed "LOL KAYLE DESERVED IT", drowning out my attempts to be heard.
Match 3, I found that Zenith and 420SenpaiBlazer were on the same team against me (naturally capslocking trash talk into the /all chat at me the entire game) -- I wanted payback, but wasn't about to suicide myself for it. I ran top again, and came up against Zenith (this time playing Gnar) and some guy playing Darius. My lanemate, Xin Zhao, decided halfway to the top lane that he wanted to jungle. Fine, right? Okay. I let him do his thing, holding top against 2 enemies as best I could as Irelia, a character I'm not very familiar with. After a while, I called out for a gank in top to "Derpencio", the Xin Zhao player.
He responded with "OMFG LOL STUPID BITCH JAJAJAJAJA". We lost that match too, at a 4/0 vote to surrender.
This is not an exception, this is the norm when I try to enjoy a game of League. I've come to realize that there is simply no fun to be had in a game that requires silver or gold ranking simply to be playable. I would have to grind for another 15 levels just to unlock ranked matches, and frankly the amount of hatred and frustration that I'd accumulate during that leveling would not be worth it to me.
Riot Games claims to care about creating a good player environment, but they're liars and fools. The Tribunal system is broken and worthless, the only surefire way to get someone banned is to have your whole team report them -- which never happens, because your team is usually more interested in eating turret bolts and fucking each other than actually moving as a unit... or even communicating with each other.
I've come to realize that because League punishes me for leaving, I'm forced to stay in unwinnable games where my teammates refuse to surrender despite our team being 12 to 45 with one person AFK and another person refusing to leave the jungle and help the team. I've also come to understand that the game itself, while fun, does not redeem the sheer amount of unpleasantness that I am forced to endure simply so I can have a good time. No pentakill is worth feeling so full of anger and frustration that you fear to break your laptop as you furiously jab at command keys. No victory justifies such a hellish player community. No amount of enjoyment could possibly outweigh the sheer amount of bullshit that Riot Games makes me put up with.
So I'm uninstalling League of Legends as I write this. I'm done. You win, trolls. I'm finished trying to enjoy a game that punishes me for playing.
It breaks my heart, but I have to admit to myself that League stopped being fun months ago.
A little something I found on a comment section on youtube.
This is how I feel when I'm paired with the new generation of league players riot. The selfish ones who only care about themselves instead of the team doing well and winning.
Why don't you fix it? Or is it like your servers and that would cost too much money/time so why bother when Esports is easier to make money off of...right?
