What is wrong with you people?

InsaneSamurai·Apr 6, 2015·32 votes·2,377 views

Every single game now, someone is blaming, raging, trolling, or just leaving the game... and I've been playing nothing but urf. Seriously, just stop and take a breath. Try to actually have fun.

43 Comments

disregardableApr 6, 201513 votes

The game isn't designed to be fun, it's designed to be competitive.

Èl TigreApr 6, 201512 votes

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The game isn't designed to be fun, it's designed to be competitive.

URF was totes designed to be competitive yep.

DarkFaun FortesApr 6, 20151 votes

Sadly I have to agree with you, it seams that casuals no longer matter to riot unless they pay money.

gr8jobApr 7, 20154 votes

That doesn't even make sense. There's nothing in the store that divides a hardcore player from a casual one. Absolutely nada.

DarkFaun FortesApr 7, 20151 votes

you misunderstand my meaning.. Weather your a casual or a hardcore trying to get into championships if you dont spend money on RP the ONLY skins you get are victorious, and the amount of time needed to make rune pages and get new champs is drastically extended.

To put this in perspective, I can drop ten dollars and get a new champ and a skin, with alittle over for an icon or small IP boost, and only spend 20-40 hrs on runes for that champ, or, i can spend 40-80 hours to get the same thing without money, and still not have a skin.

Riot has NO rewards for casual players that dont do ranked, and dont spend money. If you want a skin, at minimum you have to get to gold, unless you want to drop money.

gr8jobApr 9, 20151 votes

That's like one skin per season. If you want a skin, buy one of the many in the store. It's not really a reward for anything though... it just shows you were willing to spend $5 of your well-earned cash on a cosmetic item. For casual players, there are plenty of icons that are attainable by participating in events and such.

This game will never really be about long term rewards, unless you decide to climb through the ranked ladder. I've never even touched ranked, and I've been playing since season two (okay, I did play one ranked game a while back.) I play because I feel rewarded by the small victories I achieve while in a match, winning a game, improving, or grinding IP for a champion/runes.

If you find owning skins rewarding, just buy them... if you don't have money, then save some up, cut spending, sell something, wait tables once a week (seriously, just work for like 3 hours and earn $40-$200... plenty of skins to buy with that) If you have an internet connection and time to play a game, I don't really see why you can't get the skin you want. I'll never understand a person's "need" for skins though. I have quite a few myself, but I could take 'em or leave 'em.

And besides, if you're willing to pay actual money for virtual things, you may not be as casual as you think. Unless you're rich, that's dedication in itself.

Elite4RunnerApr 6, 20158 votes

I disagree with AFK. If you're referring to League of Legends in general, your statement might have some merit, but U.R.F. is definitely intended to be fun and not competitive. Anytime there is a game that has minimal consideration to balance(as is the case in U.R.F), it is by definition not designed to be competitive. Take a painstakingly balanced game and add a ridiculous buff to EVERYONE, even if it doesn't apply to everyone. .. that's not balanced.

RaptameiApr 7, 20151 votes

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I disagree with AFK. If you're referring to League of Legends in general, your statement might have some merit, but U.R.F. is definitely intended to be fun and not competitive. Anytime there is a game that has minimal consideration to balance(as is the case in U.R.F), it is by definition not designed to be competitive. Take a painstakingly balanced game and add a ridiculous buff to EVERYONE, even if it doesn't apply to everyone. .. that's not balanced.

Any competitive game is competitive.

URF just means there is less balance and therefore more need to pick the OP champions.

EchoZeeroApr 6, 20154 votes

Sad thing is in the beginning, Urf was full of player trying either their favorite champions and having fun or just playing casually. Now each pick is a known URF OP pick from my experience, and you only get to play with or against Ahri Evelynn Hecarim Kassadin Katarina Leblanc Malzahar MasterYi Mordekaiser Nasus Nidalee Shaco Sona Vladimir MonkeyKing XinZhao Zed , whichever hasn't been banned.

Sergeant StephenApr 6, 20152 votes

TF TwistedFate is quite fun in Urf.

Space BumApr 6, 20152 votes

What if anyone on that list was already one of your favorite Champs..... AP Shaco has been my favorite aram roll for as long as I can remember and I also play him in the jungle in normals.

GavranApr 6, 20151 votes

I go AD in the jungle but I have lots of fun AP Shaco supporting. Getting actually ahead in lane pretty much requires your opponents be dumb enough to facecheck bushes but once you're on even footing, you have decent poke with Shiv and great bush control (until they start Sweeper-ing which... very few people ever do.)

Then late game you basically get to play URF Shaco with less boxes in their jungle all game while you go ward stuff. :D

Space BumApr 6, 20152 votes

AD is the only effective way in the jungle. I've also done AP support, normally roam a lot.

GavranApr 7, 20151 votes

Oh yeah I get you now, I read that as "I also play [AP Shaco] in the jungle. But yeah, going AP let's you really just spend all your time on Shaco's trolly mechanics/playstyle and it's delightful.

InsaneSamuraiApr 6, 20151 votes

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Sad thing is in the beginning, Urf was full of player trying either their favorite champions and having fun or just playing casually. Now each pick is a known URF OP pick from my experience, and you only get to play with or against , whichever hasn't been banned.

Yeah for the first 2 days, it was the most amazing thing to hit League. Now it's just another flavor of playing with unpunished trolls.

FredartApr 7, 20151 votes

You forgot Maokai Anivia Karma Poppy Yorick Azir

Elite4RunnerApr 6, 20153 votes

Well, that's what happens when people stick with the previously mentioned mentality. I was just screwing around earlier tonight by building straight AP on Riven for the hell of it. I got my ass handed to me lol, but it was fun. I was actually happy that my teammates didn't get an attitude with me.

Ariel the CruelApr 6, 20153 votes

It's just no fun playing draft anymore. All those ranked rejects raised the toxicity considerably.

Thankfully blind pick and team builder are still decent most of the time.

KrigjerApr 6, 20153 votes

Maybe they're having fun playing the OP champs? I mean, kill potential is a huge draw to most people, so obviously they're going to pick something they like with high kill potential.

I was playing Sona because having a passive proc every two seconds is incredibly satisfying, not because 'omg she's op, that means I'll win'. She's been banned lately so I've been building Ahri with Banner and Zz'rot Portal and having a blast with that too.

InsaneSamuraiApr 6, 20152 votes

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Maybe they're having fun playing the OP champs? I mean, kill potential is a huge draw to most people, so obviously they're going to pick something they like with high kill potential.

I was playing Sona because having a passive proc every two seconds is incredibly satisfying, not because 'omg she's op, that means I'll win'. She's been banned lately so I've been building Ahri with Banner and Zz'rot Portal and having a blast with that too.

You might have an honest reason to play Sona, which is cool I guess since Riot somehow didn't disable her, but once you've done it one time and seen how you're obviously giving your team a drastic handicap, then you've had your fun at the expense of others. Now that you've seen that, go on and try something else, otherwise you're just helping ruin URF.

In a temporary experimental game mode, with ~120 options, reducing it to the same 10 or so every single game just because they can't all be banned and you want easy kills is not really the way to go.

KrigjerApr 8, 20151 votes

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You might have an honest reason to play Sona, which is cool I guess since Riot somehow didn't disable her, but once you've done it one time and seen how you're obviously giving your team a drastic handicap, then you've had your fun at the expense of others. Now that you've seen that, go on and try something else, otherwise you're just helping ruin URF.

In a temporary experimental game mode, with ~120 options, reducing it to the same 10 or so every single game just because they can't all be banned and you want easy kills is not really the way to go.

You know what, no.

I'm not going to force myself to play something I don't enjoy as much just so someone else will have more fun.

InsaneSamuraiApr 8, 20151 votes

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You know what, no.

I'm not going to force myself to play something I don't enjoy as much just so someone else will have more fun.

Yeah who cares if anyone else has any fun.

Also, unless you've tried almost every champ in URF, how can you know it's going to be less fun?

SukishooApr 6, 20153 votes

I've been playing nothing but urf.

Well there's your problem

InsaneSamuraiApr 6, 20151 votes

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Well there's your problem

Really? How's that exactly? I do this because the absolute worst thing about this game is the people that play it, and for the first two days all the entitled incomprehensible ragekids just stuck with ranked and normals.

I assumed that if someone is completely obsessed with winning and KDAs, they won't have much use for a game where your stats are erased in a week. Didn't turn out that way, so I guess they basically just like winning nearly impossible to lose fights. I think I'm just gonna start calling them puppy kickers :P

GavranApr 6, 20151 votes

Nah, URF's unbalanced hot mess creates way more toxicity than the average Normal Draft or better yet Team Builder.

BeatzBoyFTWApr 6, 20152 votes

Just try to have fun in URF

Enemy picks Fizz Vladimir Hecarim Riven MasterYi

Me:....ftfy

Chaotic ReksApr 6, 20151 votes

picks proceeds to troll the hell out of the enemy team

DecripticApr 6, 20152 votes

Na players be salty

DankerarApr 7, 20151 votes

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Na players be salty

all those dislikes are from truly NA players... salties

DecripticApr 7, 20151 votes

yep

PalPlaysApr 6, 20152 votes

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Every single game now, someone is blaming, raging, trolling, or just leaving the game... and I've been playing nothing but urf. Seriously, just stop and take a breath. Try to actually have fun.

I do:

Skarner : Q for days

Dead EchoApr 6, 20152 votes

In regards to URF, its a game mode created to be fun, if a player takes URF games too seriously then they shouldn't be playing. That being said I mostly play normals and I try to have fun (I still play to win, but I don't take things too seriously to the point where I'm over competitive). League is a competitive game but I feel that the ranked games are where a majority of that should go to; League is a game, you should be enjoying the game.

WolfBVApr 7, 20152 votes

But dis isn't a game. Oh w8.

Elite4RunnerApr 7, 20152 votes

Right, and any argument is lost when idiots think they know everything.

Lore VentusApr 7, 20152 votes

Idk, but something must have happen between season 3 to season 5.

Eraest97Apr 7, 20151 votes

League got popular so more people started playing. More people= chances running into these kind of people increases

InsaneSamuraiApr 7, 20151 votes

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League got popular so more people started playing. More people= chances running into these kind of people increases

This makes sense to an extent, but should I also not run into more reasonable people? I think what is happening is the influx of new players is drastically overpopulated with the type of people nobody wants to deal with, and very few of the people who can be reasonable and communicated with. Whatever they are doing with marketing perhaps? I'd like if they started trying to specifically appeal to reasonable people who look at their team as a group of people to work together with as opposed to simply targets to blame when things don't go your way like your standard player seems to do.

DeloricVIApr 7, 20151 votes

Not necessarily. If league is more popular, than the relative number of toxic players should stay the same; I would presume that the people who like to play league would be a relatively consistent audience. I mean, logically speaking, the fact that there are more people doesn't say anything about what percentage of them are toxic. Now if you said "League of Legends have become more popular with people that normally play Call of Duty," then I could see your point because this game can be quite frustrating for people used to team-deathmatch style battles of "I have more kills, so I win."

Also, because people always think that my examples come from hard fact for some reason, I personally don't know how many people who play call of duty also play league of legends... it was just an example of something that would make more sense, if it were true.

Lore VentusApr 7, 20151 votes

I guess i meant, perhaps a new group joined league that made it less desirable to play. Like fotm people or kdr people. Or perhaps the balancing became unstable.

EleshakaiApr 6, 20151 votes

Man people have forgotten how broken Karma is in URF... this makes me sad.

Very sad.

Who is going to remind them with me not playing anymore? :(

MigrañaboyApr 6, 20151 votes

inb4 URF next year is ARAM mode.

inb4 we will complain of ARAM accounts anyway.

DeloricVIApr 7, 20151 votes

I have so many people in champ select that say stupid things in urf like "ugh,**** you, blitz is a wasted ban, bad player gg" and all I can say to them is, "it's unranked, it's urf, everyone is freaking op, have fun with it. That's the point of urf."