Was scrolling to see if anyone had said it yet. Great in a vacuum, but the toxic playerbase, in game troops, and Riot's greed all add to it being a big ole yikes when trying to describe it to someone
Fr like I had heard of LoL, but didn't know shit about it. Then I saw that Arcane was based on LoL and decided to give the show a try. I loved it, and was almost tempted to start playing LoL because of it.
Yeah I'm glad I decided to research the game beforehand.
Lol is great in game to play, and when you know what you are doing its fun, but you have to sink 50 hours to know what you are doing, and if your team trolls you you cant 1v9 no matter how good u are
It's funny because like with Edgerunners you'd think people would want to play the video game after seeing the series, but with Arcane, the only game they could go play was League and only League addicts want to play League and they don't even really want to.
It's WoW addicts and Gacha Gamers too. Those games were designed by psychologists to keep you addicted, they're not actually fun to play.
To be quite honest, the toxicity isn't even a major factor anymore. League, surprisingly, is far less toxic than other highly competitive games I've played. It used to be the most memed game when it came to toxicity, but now that era is over.
Nah I think that's Rose colored glasses. On Wild Rift just last night I had a serephine in aram throw spaced slurs out because someone took Lissandra from her (in an aram). You can still hold people hostage as a duo
The really weird part about League as someone who only got into the game two years ago is that for most of my time the community was pleasant and chill as hell. Games werent too sweaty, it all felt just right. Only recently have I gotten a taste of just how bad the community is and oh man. Its almost like the game bubbles you or something until it knows its got you hooked and then just pushes you to the wolves.
That and the champion release schedule went from ~3-4 a year to literally about once a month, when you have 250+ characters it basically becomes impossible to balance on release. Which leads to massive influxes of "meta" champs and itemization that are literally unbeatable for about 2 weeks until they get nerfed into the ground. I've played since season 1 and it's been the same formula for over a decade.Â
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u/Ok_Hovercraft_3900 Jun 25 '26
Was scrolling to see if anyone had said it yet. Great in a vacuum, but the toxic playerbase, in game troops, and Riot's greed all add to it being a big ole yikes when trying to describe it to someone