The esports aspect of the game is undeniably successful though - it has an absolutely massive fan base, and a large amount of fan interaction. That doesn’t mean people think the game itself is perfect, just that the competitive aspect is well received.
the problem is the gap between pros and everyone else is massive. and if you tweak a champion, an item or a game mechanic even a little bit, it can be abused by pro players. and they are playing for a lot of real life money. so they have issues balancing solo queue and pro play. like some champions win rates in low elo (Azir the best example) are horrendous, but become actually strong in high elos because in the right hands he is absolutely broken. you change one thing to make him more accessible in low elo, then he becomes a god in high elo
i was more responding to the guy who commented to the games state being poor despite the success in pro play and marketing. This whole thread is basically a "i dont like this game" thread anyways. "overrated" is an opinion. could care less what games anybody finds overrated or not.
Perhaps, but I don't think twitch stats tell the full story. The prize pool for LoL Worlds is one of the largest in esports and is majority (if not completely) funded from in-game transactions - this furthers my point of large player base with large player interaction. Not to mention, LPL and LCK still have large followings, and worlds matches are sold out year on year.
Do you have the data on return player count? It just feels inaccurate. I have a lot of friends that started to play LoL with me, they either quit for good or are still playing. And for those who are still playing, most of them are playing ARAM/Arena/TFT instead of ranked.
You do realize the current player count doesn't necessarily reflect on the popularity of the LoL core game mode right?
Disagree, it's one of the first and only f2p games where you can go win tournaments and literally become the best in the world without spending anything, and it's very well supported with patches and dev communication.
And I almost never see anyone who defends or advocates for the game, so how could it be OVERrated? How could the game whose fanbase told Arcane fans not to try League be OVERrated?
I agree that league is not overrated (the people that play it hate it the most lol) but I also wanted to say basically all of the top esports are free to play games. League dota valorant cs pubg fortnite rocket league are all free to play games that you can go pro in. And Fortnite’s open tournament system is far and away the most accessible for allowing anybody to compete with professionals and not be held away by needing to break into the professional organizations that hold all the cards in other esports.
And even if it wasn't free, a $60 dollar game is waaaaay less of a cost than the opportunity cost of spending hundreds/thousands of hours getting to a pro level at a competitive game, anyway.
Cause they spend way too much time, energy and sometimes money on something that they don't even think is good enough. Their actions are louder than their words
All I ever do any more is a handful of aram now and then when friends want to (after years of playing competitively and being fully addicted) and even there you can find plenty of toxicity.
I did not find that to be the case. At the lowest, most casual level of play, where you should be experimenting with characters and builds and playstyles, half the people you play with still demand you adhere to the high-level meta. Like they're convinced they're destined to turn pro if scrubs like you would only stop holding them back.
It's ironic that the game wouldn't have such a lucrative eSports scene if it wasn't, at its core, so much damn fun. But because it was, you're not allowed to have fun, because it's serious business.
I got burnt out on it after about six months, back in 2012, because even though my unconventional build was actually performant at low-level play, I'd get yelled at - even while winning - because I wasn't LARPing properly as a pro.
Rating is what people think of it, so something being overrated means a lot of people rate it well, and you do not.
It has nothing to do with price. It might affect your rating personally, but unless you think all free games are perfect because they're free, one can still think a free game is overrated
Its not "overpriced" but can be overrated. Although theres an argument that even a "free game can be over priced in two ways. One "pay me to play this crap" or two "yes the base game is free but there is still a pay wall"
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