A bit of a rant, hoping for good discussion.

TL;DR I've been playing a long time, the toxicity in the game has gotten far worse than it was when I started, after a brief respite, and it's gotten to where I have to report at LEAST 2-3 people per game, but oftentimes more, as was with the game I described below. I'm looking for some positivity instead of the constant negativity this community throws this way all the time.

So. I've been playing since Season 2. Around the early days of Season 2. I've enjoyed this game through the many iterations, and I think the gameplay has been the reason why, probably with a backing of the characters. I haven't found a moba yet that had characters that I actually liked, and A big part of that is that League hits that fantasy itch I have, from all the RPG's I used to play. And for the most part, leading up to THIS season, a lot of the toxicity I saw was starting to die off, and I was super happy. The game was getting better, the mechanics were solid, everything felt great. It made me WANT to solo queue, to push my rank to do the best I could on my own. I was only silver, but it made me want to push. I went from S5 to S2 just pushing on my own. And then the preseason hit. Warding changed. The ADC role that I played had some huge changes. And that was okay. And then Dynamic queue came out. And I was ecstatic. It was a great plan to be able to pick what 2 roles you wanted to play, so you could play at your best every game! And then I started using the queue, when it first hit in draft. Oh my God, I had some of the most unbalanced games of League I had ever played. My friends and I(mostly silver/gold players) were regularly getting matched with Diamond players. Losing games by HUGE amounts. Like...not even CLOSE games. But I kept playing, even without my friends. Made a switch to top lane, as I wasn't enjoying most of the ADC changes, outside of caitlyn, and kept playing. Dynamic queue remained unbalanced for me for the longest time. Then they removed it to change some things, and said after they fix some stuff, it'll be back. I was glad, it meant they'd fix the matchmaking and get things back on track. They made promises of a specific solo queue, so one person would queue alone, and said dynamic queue would be the new duo queue, but with more people! Wow! Another way to balance things! No groups in solo queue! And then eventually Dynamic queue came back, and seeped over to ranked. And it still had many of the unbalanced problems it originally had. I was still very often paired with Plat/Diamond level players, And not just one. But 3-4 at a time, in some cases. Games were VERY 1 sided. The game was less and less fun, when there was no real way to play. Fast forward to the season start after preseason. Everything was settling down metawise, people were finding champs, and playing them. Still waiting on the solo queue. Still waiting on some form of balance to dynamic queue matchmaking. I kept playing ranked, with tons of 1 sided games, and eventually placed myself again. I placed in Bronze 3. FAR below where I originally was. I worked my way back up, slowly but surely, back into Silver. Back up to Silver 3. At that point, the fun in ranked was gone. It was too many 1 sided stomps. I wasn't enjoying 20 minute games over and over again. So I stopped playing. In May, I came back. I played a few games. I knew being gone even normal games would be fairly unbalanced, but I figured after a couple games it would start to even back out. Everyone in the games was HORRIBLY toxic. Like...abnormally so, for what I was used to, after the preseason hit. I did my reporting, and I went on to the next game. Again, a lot of HORRIBLY toxic people. I thought "Man. The bad luck. Lets try one more time." Same thing. At that point I took a couple days away, because I thought maybe some time for some bans to go out. Maybe it's an influx of newer players hitting 30 and just acting rude. After a few days I came back. Same stuff, every game. Enough to kill any of the enjoyment I was feeling from coming back to the game. Fast forward to today. I haven't played much recently. Every single time I come to play, I run into horribly obnoxious toxic people. I don't think I've played a single game in my last 10 games where I haven't had to report at LEAST 2 people for being extremely toxic. All of the toxicity leaving in the preseason was back and worse. I asked a few of my friends who played more often. Many of them said they had the same problems. JUST TODAY, I played a ranked game. Wanted to come back and try my hand at a game as I finally had reliable enough internet to play a decent ranked game as it had been a few days. Literally MY ENTIRE TEAM was flaming my Lucian after just a few deaths. He was csing okay, but he was getting caught by 3 and 4 man ganks, he wasn't recieving any help from the others on the team, and I had my hands full top lane with a swain, so just keeping him from going was all I could really do at the time. The game went on, still flaming. I finally said "Hey guys, it's probably just a bad game, it doesn't mean he's being toxic because he's doing badly. I'm having a bad game myself" and the game went on. We won a couple good teamfights, and things started to look up. He got caught out toplane with a 4 man group from the enemy team pushing a turret, and died. The flames were back, and MUCH worse than before. After he died, the other 3 took a 5v3 fight in the jungle. IMMEDIATELY jumped on Lucian, saying their fight was his fault. The game continued, the enemy team got baron, and we BARELY won a 4v5 midlane, and then managed NOTHING. We lost 2 people complaining about lucian to the solo lee sin that was left, and then could do nothing but push out our lanes while the enemy respawned. We lost another teamfight mid after the respawning of our team, because people were typing. Flaming lucian. The game ends after another 5-6 minutes, the enemy team won. We get into the lobby, and I started reporting people, and asked the enemy team to as well, as it was a TERRIBLE game as far as peoples attitudes. The enemy team joined in, and started flaming over completely different things, completely unrelated to league. Now then, I make sure every game, I have all chat OFF. Because of that. My experience with this game this season has been almost purely NEGATIVE. The matchmaking has been all over the place for me, the toxicity after the preseason has been worse than I've ever seen it before, and I'm still waiting for the solo queue to dodge out the 3 man queues vs the solo players in dynamic queue. Literally every aspect of the social side of League of Legends is pushing me away from the game. I still love the gameplay, the characters. I still want to play the game. but...the people who play the game...they completely remove any love for actually PLAYING the game I had left. Many of the people I used to play the game with have quit. Many for those same reasons. Some moved to Dota 2, some quit playing Moba games altogether, claiming they weren't willing to invest time in another game to have a community as bad at the LoL community. My girlfriend, who I met through this game, has quit, for many of these same reasons. And she doesn't understand why I keep trying to play. Why I keep coming back, hoping that I get that one game where I can have fun and enjoy things, without all the toxicity that comes about these days. I've come very close to quitting many times. Many parts of my life have been enriched with this game. And I don't want to leave it, honestly. But I'm approaching that point of hitting a "maybe it's NOT worth it anymore to try and hold on to the game." I don't like that feeling. But I don't feel like there's much reason left.

Sorry for the rant. I've seen a lot of negative posts on the boards, and I didn't really want to add to that. But maybe there are people who feel like me who have the same issues, or maybe someone can offer up some good insight on ways to avoid the negativity and maybe a new way to look at things to find a new positive outlook to make things more fun again.