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I don't know what to do anymore

apex anubis·4/18/2016, 5:51:30 AM·1 votes·361 views

I come home from a hard day at work, make something to eat and turn on my PC to play a game of league only to join the most frustrating situations I've ever had to face.

I really want to leave this game for good, but something in me is saying "it's only bad luck; happens to everybody".

It's not: 10 minutes queued in ranked as a top-laner (primary) and ADC (secondary) only to end up grouped with a 3 man team who forgets smite on there jg, and an AFK adc.

Reporting after a dreadful (and even a decent game) has become part of the league experience for me and i'm honestly unhappy with it.

This game, the one i grew into and enjoyed is not fun anymore and as a player who used to be proud of being a part of the community

  • the one where i could tell my friends that i play league and we would exchange profile names
  • the one where i felt that i could improve if i tried hard enough like in any other enjoyable game; learn from your mistakes, look up guide from experienced players, and watch the pros play your champion in ways you could have never imagined

I feel like I'm now just another number on there twitch LCS stream because in honestly, i will never generate enough money for RIOT in order for them to do anything about the state of the game for casual players. However, i do get benefits if i group with my friends because it increased the percentage of us generating more income for the game. That is my opinion as a Solo bronze player, and i am just 1 out of the ~70% of us that make up the NA server population.

I have uninstall once, however after a week i thought maybe it was just a string of bad luck and installed again. I have primarily been playing normal games which don't seem that bad at all, but after gaining the confidence to play ranked and climb elo yesterday, i am making this post because it's honestly not fun anymore and i am frustrated.

So frustrated in fact that after the game i mentioned above i send a... not-so-nice bug-report after i reported my ADC for afking and i thought about it and felt bad for sending it.

after writing this i feel a bit better because it is a way for me to let out my feeling towards the current state of the game, and hopefully i can hop into another game without the fear if being but through ~20 minutes of hell again.

7 Comments

disregardable4/18/2016, 6:07:18 AM1 votes

I've never felt like this game was worth recommending to anyone. The community has been game breakingly horrible for as long as i've played, and admitting I play League would be embarrassing because of it.

It sucks that you had a shit game, but that's what you sign up for when you play this game.

archerno14/18/2016, 6:10:35 AM1 votes

Well i dont really know what your game example was supposed to mean. If a guy genuinely forgot to take smite ,well it happens. And if someone had to afk for some reason, cmon... Its online gaming, afk is normal and accepted thing.

AramsAreBest4/18/2016, 6:12:31 AM1 votes

Arams are the break you need from toxic normals and ranked

MXXXXXL4/18/2016, 6:45:18 AM1 votes

I recommend not playing ranked, putting on some really happy music, and playing off META things in normals, can really get everything funny and enjoyable.

4th Chiming Lamb4/18/2016, 11:11:33 AM1 votes

If you want to relax, playing Ranked is not what you should do. Goofing off in normals with things like Gnar Support (we won), Aurelion Sol ADC (We won), or Galio Jungle (We lost) is a pretty fun way to calm down.