League of Legends

[Skyblade]

Used to play, got bored and sick of the incredibly hostile population, quit.

It was one of my first MOBAs. I have to say, the genre has some potential, but it's way too limiting. The most fun I had with it was the co-op battles against bots (of which there are, like, five). But even then, the players just got worse and worse as I got higher, and the gameplay got way too focused. I'd love some additional objectives or something other than just random a random death battle.

Not sure how long ago it was when you quit but they completely re-did the AI last year and there's now like a roster of 30-40 bots that the AI will pick from.

As for the community, ever since /ALL chat got disabled by default and they added the Honor System that lets you commend people with awards like "Friendly" "Helpful" "Teamworker" "Honorable Opponent" etc the community has been getting a lot better. Especially combined with the very public bannings of high profile players on the eSports scene who were being dicks to people. It's definitely shifting, slowly but surely, into a more positive environment.

The only real places or rage now are smurf accounts trolling people or Ranked Game rage at the level cap.

The new ARAM mode is also addictive as heck. Dominion is awesome too even though most people seem to forget it exists!

But yeah they have a very successful and profitable eSports business around the standard 5v5 map so I doubt they'll do much to that, but they certainly seem to be experimenting more with optional objectives etc in the other maps.

It was a while ago.

League of Legends Victory.jpg

That's the only screenshot I have from when I played. Version 1.36. So it's been a little while.

News of more bots is welcome.

I've heard that Riot had been trying to fix the problems with the hostile community, but I hadn't really heard of any success that they had. And it was an extremely widespread problem, even when I was just doing bot games.

I also don't like how seriously people take it. I played Ashe as my main (whenever I could, I hated that she was one of the most common free characters and someone would grab her first half the time), and I like working up my build and taking time in a match. Too many of the players just focused on winning, instead of having fun. I mean, I know that's kind of the point of the game, but at the same time, it's not what I find fun.

Maybe I'll try it again for the extra modes at some point, but if it stays focused so much on the 5v5 and eSports, I don't think I'll stick with it if they haven't added in some new play styles.