How to quit LoL?

Ladrac·3/17/2019, 5:32:39 PM·3 votes·4,469 views

Any tips and tricks? xD I managed to quit other online games, but this one seems too hard to quit xD I had a period where I didnt played at all, like entire months, but once I have some holiday I find myself reinstalling the game...this year I played 116 games, I don't think its that much, but I just want to quit forever xD

9 Comments

Krissi21973/17/2019, 5:39:32 PM3 votes

You can always request Riot to delete your account.

dnsup3/17/2019, 6:36:24 PM3 votes

You have to find something else to do with your time away from any computer screen. Otherwise, you will get stuck, over and over. This is a basic component to any strategy, but it can't be the whole strategy.

It may take months before the cravings stop. To get past those months, you will need to find some way to feel (not just understand, which is not enough) that you will eventually stop craving it.



Strategy 1

The most straightforward way to do that is to have someone who's around you a lot who you can speak to candidly, and to ask them to help you out occasionally. Their job is to occasionally check whether you've started playing again, and to be nonjudgmental when you periodically call them to ask them to talk you down. (Your job is to recognize when you're thinking about playing and that you might not be able to stop yourself, and call them).

In those conversations, their goal should be to convince you that... :

  • you will get over the feeling (which is part bored, part sad, part overwhelmed [with a bunch of things, including the idea of figuring out another way to enjoy your time on this planet other than temporarily satisfying a chemical dependence])

  • you don't want to get stuck playing it forever, because you don't like what it's doing to you (and by the time LoL goes away, this could have gone on for more than 10 years of your short life)

  • that playing even once while you're still craving it will reset the clock and undo your work up to that point


If you do slip up and play it again while you're trying to quit, then... :

  • you have to be honest with that person, and

  • you have to admit to yourself that you slipped up (don't beat yourself up, because that's counterproductive)

  • you have to to remind yourself how badly you want to quit, including the reasons why (this is tricky, because part of your head might try to make you lie to the rest of your head about how important those reasons are)


You don't have to call that person a "sponsor," as they do in addiction-recovery programs. But take note that they would be serving many of the same purposes as a sponsor does, and compulsive LoL playing does usually meet many of the criteria for addictive behaviour.

If you need help figuring out how to start that conversation/choose that person/etc., or want other pointers, I've got more ideas about it and can be more detailed on any of the above. (There are some major warnings that you and the other person sort of need to know about - it's not as simple as having a friend call and check up on you). Just ask, seriously.



Strategy 2

Alternatively, you could try the brute force method, whose efficacy is more immediate but less reliable: namely, delete your account [if that's even possible - IDK] and avoid anything having to do with LoL for as many months as it takes before you stop thinking about it all together.

But this can be hard, because for some people any PC game, or any friend who plays LoL, or overhearing any casual discussion of LoL, etc., will be enough to remind them of League. And even if such a person quits all games, stops talking to friends who play LoL, etc., this method can still fail really easily. The reason is that you're still relying on just yourself (your own head) to keep you from playing - but in your post, that's exactly what you're sort of admitting to being unable to do.



One thing you can always look forward to, in a moment of weakness, if you know at that moment that you're about to play LoL and get stuck in the cycle again:

What did it feel like, back when you weren't playing, to have a day with zero thoughts about LoL at all, because life was fine without it?

Ionian Vulpix3/17/2019, 6:32:53 PM2 votes

Uninstall the game and don't let yourself reinstall. Block the site from your computer if you can. It helps if you have something less addicting to do that you can play as you did League, but not as much. I stopped playing League right after Smash came out.

6 Years Unranked3/17/2019, 8:10:41 PM1 votes

Find a better game

Here's a list of games that gave me entertainment for 2 weeks or more (didn't even touch League until I was bored of them):

  • Dragon Age: Origins
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition
  • Legend of Zelda: BotW
  • Xenoblade Chronicles X (The postgame is what lasted so long, which is now dead)
  • Dark Souls (but PvP is dead now)
  • Dark Souls 2 (same as DS1)
  • Factorio
  • Fallout: New Vegas
  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Tham Chundi3/18/2019, 1:34:53 AM1 votes

dotn played it unitnstal