The Reason why I've stopped playing LoL.

Hello Everyone,

My name is ShadowCrimson64 and I've finally decided to stop playing LoL. I have gone 3 months without playing LoL

I've started play League in May 2012 (Season 2 Varus was the new champ at the time.) During the 3-4 years I've had a blast! I've played roughly 3000 - 3500 over the years. On my quest to Level 30, I played a lot of Shaco back during the assassin meta (It was also the time where the "League of ** Lee Sin**" also started to show up.) I never really focused on Ranked that much. Mostly because I had REALLY bad que anxiety :/ Eventually I met some friends (I'm not much of a "social butterfly" so it was a HUGE deal to me back then) that I'd started to duo with and every since then my anxiety has gotten a lot better :D It is to the point where I don't really feel scared anymore at all. I just kinda do it without thinking.

Out of my 3000 - 3500 games, I've only been raged quit 5 times (I was also timed out Once because I left in the middle of the games). Even though I never reached a high ELO, all in all I would consider myself a fairly decent player.

So the reason why I quit wasn't because of the player base or because I was having a hard time climbing the ladder. The real reason why I stopped is because... I HATE Riot.

Before you go to the comments and write a mean comment, hear me out. Still here? Good.

I played league when it was still fairly new. It grew its company around it's player base. They would make funny jokes in the forums, gave free boost when they goof up, shared their thoughts through important decisions, etc. TBH Riot was the best gaming company I've ever seen back then. They really focused on their player base. Then... They changed everything.

Riot was eventually bought by ** Tencent** and things started to change for the worse :C

• IP gains after every match was "nerfed".
• Champion prices went through the roof
• Increasing prices of skins (after telling us they wouldn't)
• Nerfing certain champions into the ground without even trying to actually balancing them.

Back in the old days we had map skins for Christmas and Halloween (Players continued to ask for it to comeback and they just keep shoving it under the rug). Champions/skins would be released/announced every month.

Now we are even lucky if they even announce a champion/skin every 3 months. We also have:

• No replay system (Which we were promised countless times and they continue to ignore us).
• No more Solo que (And we all know how crappy Dynamic que is. You're lucky if you get your main role 1/5 games and refusing to tell us why it will never come back).
• Completely shutting down Dominion all together without even trying to rework or help it stay alive and only giving the players a crappy Icon for all their time and effort (Thanks Rito).
• No more lore or back story on the world (Completely trashed the weekly newspaper you would get about the Runeterra and how the characters are effecting the world around them).
• The game is completely imbalanced.
• No more explanation on their decisions.
• And flat out REFUSING to listen to their fan base.

The list I could go on and on about the things they changed over the years. As a gamer, I can't continue to play this game. Everything about the game that I loved 3 years ago has changed. If LoL keeps going down this path, their will be no future. And lets be honest, the way this game is being managed as of right now, it can only go downward.

TL;DR: After 3 years of playing LoL I've finally stopped playing because Riot is refusing to listen to their fan base and refusing to tell us why they won't do certain things.

~**ShadowCrimson64 **