I'm sorry Riot, but I'm done. I won't tolerate this from this game. Read this or don't, whatever.
I came back to League after about two months away. I heard some people on my team complaining about targeted DDOSing slowing them down, but I assumed it was just typical excuses for poor performance. As someone who doesn't really mind when one of my teammates has a bad game, I didn't think much of it. Then I noticed in several of my games - not all, but maybe once every 15 or so games - I'd have interesting little experiences. I'd freeze up at the most inopportune moments, sometimes getting a "reconnecting" dialog. Except my ping was around 17ms the entire time. I live IN Chicago and have an 80 Mbps internet connection, so I should NEVER lag. And generally, I don't. In fact, I've played League for some five years without... EVER lagging, to my memory.
I did some digging around about this DDOSing issue and it turns out it's legitimate. So legitimate that Riot actually set up a way to protect against it. Via a Skype proxy connection. Look, guys, I'm not downloading a third party program I'll never use - and in fact one that opens my computer to port scans, according to my antivirus software - to play League. And I'm certainly not putting up with the bull excrement that is lagging during every fourth trade and having the enemy carry go 10/0 at my expense. League is not NEARLY a fun enough game to tolerate all that for.
The fact that this is such an epidemic is, if I may say, not only disconcerting... but downright shameful. Riot, you are a multi-million dollar operation. You're not an indie garage operation anymore. You can spend the money to bring in the people with the tools and know-how to protect your players better than this, and your players deserve it. You can remove this post if you wish. I completely understand if you do, and I wouldn't hold it against you. But I'd just like you to know that I've been a loyal player for several years, and I find your apparent lack of action in regards to cheating such as this downright disgraceful. Just a thought, but perhaps if you spent less time on esports and more time attending to the needs of the players who actually keep your game afloat, such things wouldn't become a problem.
The game has been fun for years, but I won't tolerate this. I'm uninstalling, and I will never play another game from this studio for the rest of my days unless I one day read that Riot has taken strong measures to protect its players from things like this.
