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the game/the community has gotten worse through the years

Roger Teh Alien·8/24/2019, 4:49:39 AM·2 votes·1,850 views

from someone who has played since season 4, this game is going down the shitter in so many levels. for those who weren't around, you use to be able to solo carry games and games use to actually reach late game. there was less stress about dying in lane because it didn't mean you were going to lose lane. there was a bigger difference between early/mid/late. people use to get behind and play for late game KNOWING they would out scale.

now people want to fucking ff at 15 even though they have the best late game comp possible. people want to afk after they die twice in lane, they want to spam ff as much as possible.

don't get me wrong, i have my bad days too and i get mad and get toxic sometimes. but seeing this nearly every game because NEARLY EVERY GAME IS A COIN FLIP AND DECIDED WITHIN 10 MINUTES is too much for me. it's reminding me why i quit for 2 months. eventually everyone shares the mentality and it's not fun and it doesn't make the game fulfilling or at the very least a learning experience.

riot, it doesn't feel good to lose a game that you know you DESERVE to win and played your best in the situation at hand. it doesn't feel good knowing 50% wr is enforced whether you want to admit it or not. the people who play bad HAVE MORE IMPACT THAN THE PEOPLE WHO PLAY GOOD. you can be the best player in the entire 5v5 but if you have 2 people who not only feed but also refuse to try then they will have much more impact than you. even one person who feeds then refuses to try has more impact. i would rather have someone who is verbally abusive then someone who refuses to play. it's funny though, i notice in the honor system bad behavior has a bigger impact than good behavior.

within 2 weeks (give or take a few days) i went from gold 4 to plat 2 with a 78% on my main Vayne and a 71/72% wr overall and under 100 games. 60%+ on other adcs i play a lot. i find it amazing how after i got into my plat 1 series for the 4th time i started getting even more toxic teams and people who wanted to straight up quit (and a lot of them did). i've done this on multiple fresh accounts/smurfs because i thought maybe i didn't deserve X rank and i wanted to try again. after doing this i've noticed a pattern of winning a lot and then losing A LOT, especially if you have a long win streak.

i don't get why you couldn't listen to the community when we begged you to make games long and not a coin flip again. but then again, maybe it's because you're losing a lot of players. maybe it's because when people reach their max peak and they know it, they get bored. maybe it's because you realized people loved urf so much so maybe making games faster would result in losing less players or getting players back. maybe it's to appease the asian community that doesn't play much in a day, so faster games = more games played. (someone mentioned this a long time ago and also how it ties into why they changed how we get BE)

hell, maybe i'm wrong. all i know is that this game is different from the one i started playing 4 years ago. and not good different either. all i know is i use to love this game and now i think i might uninstall for the last time.

maybe ill be back, maybe i won't. but please, riot, listen to your players. they might not run a company but they play your game every fucking day so if the same message is being said throughout all elos, it's most likely true.

6 Comments

Water Vapor8/24/2019, 5:51:19 AM3 votes

Hell no I played this game since season 2 and nah this game has gotten much nicer tbh. Riot will give you 14 days and perma bans on the spot now if your toxic which really isent a bad thing. Back in the day I was pretty toxic myself and I only got chat restrictions. Those days were long ago and Ive changed my ways allot. But thats besides the point people wont say the shit they used to say back then because of how shiity the report system was before. Now its kill on site.

IllIllIlllllll8/24/2019, 5:06:09 AM1 votes

Making games longer makes it more of a coin flip what is wrong with you.

There are 4 random people in your game. Who's to say they all have the patience for a 35-50 minute game.

There's a high chance atleast one of them will get tired and just want to game to end so they either give up or stop caring as much.

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EY3 Tyr4nT8/24/2019, 9:19:03 AM1 votes

the new player experience is so damn terrible i dont blame new players not wanting to stay.you cant get new blood into a game with such a high bar for entry.with toxicity and smurfs everywhere.people dodging lobby like 10 times before u can actually play a game.players afk after dying once.the only people left are those that have invested the time into the game and i dont see that changing anytime soon.i do feel like low elo will start to become as imbalanced as normal draft as its already headed that way.

Raoul8/24/2019, 9:23:09 AM1 votes

Yeah, the golden age of League of Legends is long gone.

When it was released, it ws a fun game, mostly well balanced, open Meta, and the RIOT back then still cared to make a good experience for the players.

These days RIOT balances towards the meta, couldnt care less about the casual players, only really gives a damn about the next LCS and the game is unbalanced as hell. Half the Champions are just useless, and of the rest most are basically "Yeah you could make them work, but if you go with a RIOT favored meta pick, you can do the same with less effort and better results!"

The players who loved the game and made the original community have all left by now, same with the people who used to make RIOT a great company.

adceazyas1238/24/2019, 4:00:17 PM1 votes

its not even balanced in pro play. hence all the same picks every time. literally r%%%%%ed company. moaR sEj And Kaisa plz.