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LoL fruitless as a competitive hobby

BamfBox·10/30/2016, 4:31:15 AM·4 votes·1,026 views

I am a grownup that plays competitive video games as a hobby. I play to rank up and love everything but top. Despite what the responses here may say, I'm not terrible at this game. I've done well in many other games competitively, but I can't seem to grow in this one. I've scraped the edges of plat last season and again this one but can't seem to break through.

Despite my quantity of games played this season, I live a pretty balanced life (gainfully employed, married with a spawn). I feel like I should be able to rise above the toxicity of this community, carry above/out of it. There is no mechanism in place from Riot to separate the cream of the social crop from the dredge of these players. Every time I get into a game and someone tells me they're on a chat-ban so watch for pings, I wonder why Riot is making me play with someone that clearly does not invest themselves at the same level as I do.

I could spew out a super sweet diatribe for all of you on the topic, or offer some meager half-ideas that would solve only my problem, but the reality is that this game/community is a wasteland at all levels. More importantly, it's Riot's fault. I like this game, I like the Moba format, I love the growth in esports. I want to be the eclectic guy that shuns traditional sports in favor of sharpening my own skillset and following a cool esports team. I took a day off of work yesterday at Gold I with 46LP to push into plat over a long weekend, and I was met with the worst of these boards' personalities for the past two days.

What I want, is an answer. I want to talk to a Riot employee about alienating the people on these boards. It needs to be remedied, I don't want to start over with a new game. I want to grow my skills and play with other people whose focus is the same, and the current status of this game does not allow for that. I'm horribly disappointed, both in myself (for not carrying some noobs) and in Riot (for stranding me amongst the wreckage of this small subset of the player-base).

11 Comments

Miror B10/30/2016, 2:04:47 PM3 votes

Yeah, the real problem is that this game caters too much to everyone but doesn't have enough modes to seperate the people. If you're casual and just want to mess around/not try at all, there really isn't anything stopping you from doing it in ranked (especially if you care little about your actual "rank"). Conversely, if you're hardcore and want to increase your rank then there isn't anything stopping you from doing normals. The former is why ranked (especially in bronze/silver) is about 95% skill-less/brainless and why I almost never play it nowadays, as the chances of you actually winning a game there come down to which toxic douchebag rito pairs you with and not with the overall skill of both teams.

Oh, and the boards don't alienate people. The game does, but the boards can be rather decent so long as you don't make stupid posts about how certain characters (yasuo) need massive buffs in order to be considered viable.

Nice Fellow10/30/2016, 7:10:10 AM2 votes

The problem. Is there are far too many thin skinned people living in today's day and age. If someone cursed at you or called you trash don't take it to heart and move on with life.

ShinkoMinori10/30/2016, 3:50:25 PM1 votes

Baka

Talisid10/30/2016, 7:21:48 PM1 votes

This isn't really the correct board for this discussion.

EvilDustMan10/30/2016, 7:34:09 PM1 votes

All hobbies are useless. Life is useless. In the galactic scale, you are less than an ant's fart. In the cosmic scale, you are less than a single atom.

Why bother doing anything when you are just going to die and leave nothing on this world.