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the "its just a game"/"its just >game mode<" excuse...GTFO League!

Freaktory·1/9/2020, 7:25:10 AM·9 votes·7,651 views

I really am fucking sick of this excuse being passed around. Just got out of a loss where our mid Zoe would completely ignore towers, drop everything to chase every single kill. And despite me clearing both top and bottom towers and even having to help her take her own tower. she Still did nothing to help push

in the end she went 0/10 and just kept using "Its just a game" before running off to chase another kill and die again. I am sick of people using this damn fucking excuse. If you sign onto a competitive, objective oriented game, then refuse to actually push towers just so you can pretend this is a call of duty tdm...Get the fuck off the game. You arent wanted, or needed.

You dont sign up to play baseball, then say you ONLY came to toss the ball back and forth (and not actually play baseball...just play catch) thats the same thing. You sign onto an objective based game that revolves taking towers to destroy the enemy nexus, Then just fuck around wanting to run around chasing kills. No interest in actually taking towers or winning. Then turn around and use "hur its just a game" or "its just norms" or "its just ARAM" as some debate-ending victory response. Yeah, its a game, -A COMPETITIVE GAME- these are the same people who get mad at people like me who try and take towers because I wont help them spend the game ARAMing mid for kills.

you want a casual game? Go play "go fish" or "checkers"

You want to chase kills? Fine, FUCKING UNISTALL LEAGUE and go play an FPS. Go play CoD, Go play Halo. but GET THE FUCK OFF LEAGUE. YOU ARE NOT WANTED.

I am so fucking sick of this NA Casual attitude on a competitive game.

Edit: Oh Look, My first Downvote. Someone apparently likes having all thier hard work and effort completely dismissed and invalidated by 3-4 little words.

you work hard to take dragons, you work hard to farm your levels and secure the kills needed to HELP YOU TAKE TOWERS. And one person throws ALL THAT AWAY and decides to throw the match. They turn to you and completely dismiss you, your hard work,your effort, your strategy with "bruh, its just a game/Its just norms" Yeah. Why actually try and win, why actually have a competitive game based around objectives. cuz "its just norms, bruh" and yet Riot says people arent allowed to give up? Using "its just Norms/game/Aram" is a COVER you use to comfort yourself when you have given up. So thanks for the downvote. Lets me know you enjoy having your hard work invalidated.

37 Comments

ARandomRedneck1/9/2020, 9:03:45 AM6 votes

Hey.

It's just a game.

Kroda131/9/2020, 11:03:39 PM4 votes

Ranked or Normals it is just a game. Not one of us are playing for money or as a job. If you arent playing to have fun you are doing it wrong

Nightsky Pirate1/9/2020, 9:01:10 PM3 votes

"It's just norms" isn't an excuse. Literally approved to play however you want in norms, UNLIKE RANKED. Wanna chase kills all day even when 0/10 Zoe?

Play norms.

DON'T want to play with said Zoe?

Play ranked.

Still playing with Zoes?

Get good.

Period, end of story, quit crying.

Urinetrouble071/9/2020, 9:32:48 PM2 votes

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"It's just norms" isn't an excuse. Literally approved to play however you want in norms, UNLIKE RANKED. Wanna chase kills all day even when 0/10 Zoe?

Play norms.

DON'T want to play with said Zoe?

Play ranked.

Still playing with Zoes?

Get good.

Period, end of story, quit crying.

yeah umm about that. Some of us cant play this game for 8 hours a day. Some of us still care about winning. Not to mention that there are actually MORE trolls and inters in ranked than norms becuase they know that they ruin peoples game waste their time. The best part about it ? Rito doesn't care. Rito let's it happen and believe it or not they actually promote it in the sense that they WILL NOT punish anyone on any line UNLESS they use chat in a negative way. Who are the people who flame ? Lots of the time its the people who are sick of the trolls that rito lets run wild and free. The trolls are very very aware of it as well so they know as long as they are incredibly sarcastically nice to you they're free to go and ruin games all season man. So I'm pretty sure you've missed the point and think you're high elo and would dominate everything but you're not.

a cool guy1/9/2020, 9:17:54 AM2 votes

Low elo is just about pew pewing shit and having fun, if you aren't above dimaond you aren't playing a competitive solo queue game.

If you are trying to play competitive solo queue you should easily be able to 1v5 in low elo enough to rank up regardless of what your team does. If you can't then you are not good enough to play competitive solo queue games.

Inkling Commando1/12/2020, 5:40:55 AM2 votes

news flash. not everyone is competitive one trick pony like you are. if you want to focus on winning then go do ranked where that mentality is. but if you go into norms you cannot expect nor force others to follow that same mentality. in norms nothing is at stake so you have no reason to get all pissy when a player starts trolling and ruin your chances of winning. that is why the two modes are separate. yes i am aware 4fun players are in ranked and you have every right to be an asshole to them since they are being assholes to you by jeopardizing your oh so precious rankings. but in norms winning and losing have nothing at stake so if your victory is in danger because of a troll then oh fucking well. suck it up and keep playing or convince your team to ff.

lamakisser1/14/2020, 2:11:14 PM1 votes

excuse... is this not just a game?

ModJikker1/14/2020, 3:28:56 PM1 votes

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