Riot's "Legends of Bilgewater" 4 perfectly describes the ranked climb, and that's bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u00fZC1Z5Rc
Take a listen to the audio-book style story, told by one of pyke's crewmates (whom, SPOILER ALERT, dies next chapter to pyke slitting his throat and dragging him underwater)
You start off with one golden kraken, (your initial placement), and TK, best portraying Riot themselves, offers you glory and wealth and great things. They take you to solo/duo queue (with all their annoying "Be better than everyone else, PROVE YOUR SKILL, C L I M B T H E L A D D E R" propaganda shite), and you get playing. You make a higher rank rather quickly, suddenly you see the idea of a much brighter mark on your profile. Gold ELO or higher, which actually comes with some monetary value for once, bringing a champ and an exclusive skin. Then, when you get that idea of hitting the high ranks, and you come so close, you lose some. You win some, you lose some more, and you get into a desperate "Oh, screw it, all or nothing. That'll regain my wealth of ELO in no time" Then, you lose that.
Then you fall ranks, you miss out on real life occasions, you tilt your friends and probably even flame them because they aren't doing well in your duoq games. And you're now elo-broke, short staffed when it comes to good friends, and probably a few divisions lower.
The season turns, and that same starting rank that got you into this whole mess is given back to you by your placements. And then it sits on your fuckin' mind and doesn't let go
I get the feeling that riot perfectly understood the problems with their ranking system before making this short. Or at least the story and sound team that made the short tale. And they're not going to do a damn thing about it, which is what makes this so bad. It's like saying 'Oh, what a shame this kitten's stuck up a tree, thats REAL bad, oh no.' then just walking on your merry way and not either trying to save it or trying to get someone i.e. a fireman or just some bloke with a tall ladder TO rescue it. you just mention that its there and figure that's all you need to do.
And, like all problems, that metaphorical kitten will eventually starve or fall out of the tree if you just let it sit and grow out of hand.
You don't point out that you have an infected wound and just let it fester, you clean that shit off before it costs you a limb. But rito's motto is "Oh what a shame, i guess thats just unlucky, maybe it'll be fine idgaf lmaooooooooooooooooooooooo"
Discuss. -AA
