User blog comment:Typhron/A Revision of a Critique of the League of Legends/@comment-6003864-20130117052529

Maybe I'm overstepping my bounds considering I only started playing over the summer, but I think a lot of what your saying is still speaking from personal feelings about the game instead of unbiased and impersonal review.

"Loss Forgiveness", as you call it, can't work in a MOBA game. It's just not possible. Sure it sucks that a lot of losses come from idiots and DC-ers, but honestly having a system that says "Oh, that's ok it doesn't matter anyways" is self-defeating. There are assholes in everything. That's how the world works. If you can't live with the fact that your fellow man will let you down 6/10 times... go find a single-player game and lock your door, because that's the only way to get away from it.

I do like your "better team support" part. A lot of the assholishness of players comes from the lack of real consequences for their actions. Add a tangible consequence for being an idiot and less people will act that way. It's the "Scarlet Letter" psychology. If everyone can see publicly that you're something they don't like, they'll stay away from you. So maybe a reverse medal if you're a continuously toxic person would go miles towards helping improve the community.

I also kind of agree with your "learning the game" paragraph. I actually learned how to play in a quasi-coaching match with one of my friends. However, including spectators in that is not possible, as spectated matches are purposefully delayed to prevent cheating. So that's something that can't happen.

"Antifun". Now this is where I see a lot of personal rage coming in. Flash isn't a required spell, and anyone that told you that is smoking something strong. There are literally dozens of other viable combinations of spells that work well for all lanes (how about smite+exhaust? Or Teleport+ignite? Or Heal+ehaust? I can go on...). And Black Cleaver broke the game. Do not try to sound contrarian by saying it didn't. If they hadn't nerfed it when they did, there would be eight, ten black cleavers per game, every game by now.

ELO is disappearing in the next patch I believe, so that's the end of that. And also, the Tribunal only works about 75% of the time, for obvious reasons: a lot of the same immature dipshits that make the game suck also stink up the Tribunal.

All-in-all, I sympathize with you trying to find ways to improve the game so that you can enjoy it more. But bear in mind, sometimes things need to be broken in order to work ;)