@Riot, Feedback on why league is not as good as it used to be
Let me start off by saying I love to play League of Legends, I came in around halfway through season 2, and when Mordekaiser was introduced. I introduced plenty of people to league, none have really sticked, but my family still plays it, but not as much as I do. I play it for my free time, (not the best thing to be doing honestly, but it works) and I am currently a Gold V playing as a Teemo Main.
Though, there are quite a bit of issues I would like to suggest for Feedback, if you will. I play plenty of games during my days, but It seems its slowing, mostly because of all the lag spikes I get. I feel as if it runs slower, but im not on the East coast on the edge. im quite a bit inside the US, around western Ohio, but it still constantly lags me out there. The east coast server is more of a joke in my opinion than an actual server, and it really negates the skill players can have. Constant delays are always in place for whenever I play ranked games, and I can never use a command for more than 30 seconds without getting a slight delay on one of them.
The second issue I find with League is Multiple Accounts. Smurfs are everywhere in the lower levels leveling up another account because they 1.) got account banned. 2.) want to play with friends (im fine with this one) 3.) bored of higher level and wants to feel like a pro in low level games. This is a big problem, due to the fact that new players are harassed and are told not to do anything because the smurfs supposedly "know" about where you should go etc., and it puts a real strain on the new players because they can't live up to the smurf's expectations. Smurf accounts should just not be allowed at all.
The third issue is Verbal Harassment. I have experienced a lot of it, directed at me and myself, and I have also been told to commit suicide, and deat threats, etc. (too bad ive played long enough that I don't care about these people and it doesn't affect me.) But other players cannot help but feel worthless, and feel as if the should do one of these terrible things.
The Tributional should come back, in its old form is good enough, im fine with getting 5 IP for banning a sh*t head and doing the community favor, even if it is not on the most pleasant interface. When you introduce the new Tributional, replace it, but until then, if you can't keep up with all the reports that are flooding your computers, let us help, its what we are here for.
The Fourth issue I find with this game is the Lore Retcon, which never really happened, and no real lore Is happening within the magical world of Runeterra. I want to feel interactive with the game itself, not just play a cheesy champion that I don't enjoy because they are overloaded Cough Riven Cough. there is no such thing as lore anymore, and whenever an event happens, the lore thrown in front of us only entertains for a moment really, and is not fun to read it and not be able to connect anything really. Please do something about this, bring back the old lore until you are Ready to Retcon the lore or something Riot, im tired of reading interesting stuff that I cannot connect with in any way, and can't connect it to the rest of runeterra.
The Fifth issue I find with this game are the Bugs that have been around for YEARS and haven't been fixed, such as Riven's Animation Cancellation bug, which provides way too much burst damage for a Sustained damage champion. Another example is Quinn's blind, which has claimed to be fixed, but has not been fully confirmed, and many other bugs.
The Sixth and final issue I find with league of legends is that Items are unneccecarily taken on different champs. Take Ezreal Mid, for example. Runeglaive allows him to poke his enemy from behind their minions, and AP EZ with a tear early allows him to infinitely harass with his Q, and makes him a much more lane bully than he is supposed to be. Another example is Vayne ADC w/ Devourer, which tends to either obliterate in-lane, or takes jungle camps later to grab stacks, allowing her to kill tanks like a Wrecking Ball. I would suggest taking smite in-lane should negate some damage done to minions, for up to about 10-15 mins into the game, suggestiong that the ADC's and Mid-laners should take better summoner abilities for laning (For example, instead of going Smite-ignite with Sabre, I will go Exhaust-ignite for the extra damage reduction and armor/mr reduction to catch up and shred the enemy's health and defenses to finish them or negate their damage to save them from unneccecary damage output. Looking at you Riven.).
Those would be my problems/suggestions to Riot, although I doubt that Riot will look at this thread with serious thought or consideration, I would still like to speak my mind, and allow people to open up and grant new ideas or argue why ideas like these could not be the best.( sorry if some grammar or spelling is wrong, but hey, we aren't all perfect, its what makes us human!)
Best of wishes on the Rift, summoners ~Avi
(This is a repost, I am just reposing this again to get people to see It)