Player morale has collapsed through the floor

Lost R·Jun 14, 2018·4 votes·1,419 views

Nobody wants to actually play the game. The INSTANT something doesn't work 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000% in their favor, and it can be something insanely stupid and arbitrary, like 2 HP arbitrary, they instantly give up and are ready to go sit in a dark corner praying for the horrible release of death.

Worse yet, there is a growing subcommunity that is doing this as their sworn mission statement, partly just to continue feeling the misery of despair, and partly to outright destroy League of Legends by destroying its player base so theoretically whatever may succeed League comes sooner (because that makes a whole load of fucking sense.)

If the game is such misery to play, why the fuck are you even still playing it? And if you are part of that despair cult, then announce yourselves to Riot so you and the rest of your accursed ilk can be permabanned.

6 Comments

ManslayerJun 14, 20183 votes

Are you part of the despair club? I feel like you are with this post.

To answer your question, there are not many games that fill this niche, nor many that are as clear on the screen of whats happening. All that said, LoL also was good like 2 years ago, and many people are hung up on the fact this use to be a really good game they enjoyed. That, in of itself, creates despair, anger, frustration, pretty much all the feelings of having something you care about die.

Lost RJun 14, 20182 votes

Trying to turn people's words back on themselves works only rarely, and it makes you look like a parrot when you try it all the goddamn time.

The punchline is that two years ago, people said the exact same thing about the state of the game then while pining for how things were two years prior, and before that, they pined for the state of the game from two years prior. In fact, every patch since I began playing back in 2013 has been hailed as "the final nail in League of Legends" by hordes of people who seem eager - one would even say desperate - to see this game die off or revert to what the game was like during the beta, seeing the game back then only through rose-opaque glasses.

My point is is that every time something even SLIGHTLY bad goes wrong, at least half of the team will try and force a surrender right then and there. It doesn't matter how minor or how early it is in the game. So much as a microsecond out of lockstep will turn into a 15-20 minute slog of them bemoaning how much the game sucks in the all-chat while mashing the surrender button. Hell, even if we're fifty miles ahead, they'll pull this shit. And this happens in EVERY FUCKING GAME I PLAY.

ManslayerJun 15, 20181 votes

I was joking. Calm yourself, that's why I said "to answer your question". Like I gave you an answer, that is why people tilt so quickly. They're upset because of changes or things and that causes them to not want to continue playing the said game they're in because of reasons I mentioned just now. Change.

Wolf and GunJun 14, 20181 votes

Never!

The despair cult shall grow and grow until you offer up your children as sacrifices.

Bwahahahahahahahah.

AmelieJun 14, 20181 votes

Yeah, I hear you. I've gotten a lot of "get me out of here" and "go next [game]" while counting down the 15:00 timer and keeping their finger on the surrender button. And if you don't surrender? They start trolling or crying about the lack of votes.

I have always tried to be a positive player, encourage people not to give up, etc. It's just too exhausting now.

But the game truly is in a bad place at the moment, I don't care if you think people say it about "every season" or "every change" or whatever. It objectively is not in a good place, feels bad to play, and those feelings are showing. I do think it's best to take a break from League, even just for your own sanity... that's what I'm doing.