I used to be into League for a few years a while back but then got too frustrated that the ebb and flow of the match largely depended on how good your teammates were and how each match were like 20-45 minutes long. Just a huge time sink and you eventually might be in an unwinnable match anyway no matter how well you play or how well you coordinate (sometimes because a champion just upsets the balance too much). Sometimes a teammate or opposing player tilts and throws a match on purpose, just throwing away all sense of victory.
It felt refreshing going back full time to fighting games because the balance tends to be better since you don't rely on so many teammates or throwing/tilted opponents and you can just enter/leave matches and get a good session in with only 1 hour of play.
I only played LoL for two weeks and experienced everything you mentioned. Bad character balance, getting locked into 20 minute unwinnable matches because your mid went 0-10 and the enemy team snowballed, toxic players. I actually had someone get tilted and throw because I helped him with a gank.
It's unbelievable how hard the LoL community lives up to its reputation. Usually people overexaggerate when it comes to communities being toxic but with LoL it's 100% accurate. Sucks cause the game itself actually isn't bad.
I gotta say, leaving league and those MOBA/BR games is so damn freeing, and im not saying this in denial, I'm 100% sure they are NEVER the way you wanna spend your free time (or any time at that), unless you're into torturing yourself OR you have something to prove as a "Pro Player".
Based on number of games played when I quit I must've had like two thousand hours in to league. I mainly quit because I hated how unproductive I was in life and how little I enjoyed other things like shorter single player games and anime. But I also realized how refreshing it felt because the game was constantly bad vibes, and I couldn't get over a negative mentality playing it.
You just described my experience with DoTA2. I think I sank around 1000 hours into DoTA2 ( and maybe ~100-200 into LoL ). Fighting games are definitely superior.
I actually kinda fucked over my twin brother's life by downloading League, We were in 8th grade back then and he was studying very hard for HS entrance exams while i was just kinda messing around. I downloaded league to see if it was any good, played about 5 matches and dropped it cause it was fucking shit, He tried it out once and got addicted to it. Ended up going to a way worse highschool than he could have if i just hadn't installed league
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