Why I Love League of Legends But Hate Playing It
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2014
- This video was created to describe my feelings towards the state of our League, I once enjoyed playing this game despite winning or losing, but now it has become a toxic mess. This compossed by Jesse Chisholm, and edited by KodeVu.
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I think some of the people aren't really understanding the messages that was meant for this video. I love this fucking game enough that i'v spent my time with a facebook page posting for the past 2 years, but I no longer enjoy the game as it is with the amount of toxic players, so I wanted to change that by inspiring others. Some may think I'm naive, and sure I might have not changed the entire player base, but I made a difference, and what about you?
I don't understand why is so hard for some people to understand this.
This video made me think of this, great job on the video! I've been playing since the end of season 1! This truly means something to me thank you for uploading this!!
I'm glad you did this. Glad you made this video. And you really put a lot of time and energy into this. I can tell. It's not easy putting half rhymes together the way you did and getting the emphasizing right, while having a flow that works. Lastly you knew I would remember this. 3 years compacted into 4:07. Much respect to you Near.
I hope one day I meet you in game.
thank god someone is actually doing something... you have my respect. i may flame but it is only when i have been flamed at. the toxicity in the game makes t hard to rank up. at one point i just decided to mute everyone in the game... 5 games later i was out of bronze. #thanks
I now send all toxic players to this video. Might not change them all, but 1 out of 5 is not a bad start
"People talk about this community like their not a part of it." ...bullseye.
I still go back to this video every now and then, a game that I've now enjoyed for over 12 years still has the same issues and this video is still something I link to my friends when talking about League... Emotional every time.
same, never gets old
I always get back here
Wel sadly this issue not just in League of Legends as well, also in other MMO even it was in Star Trek online also an issue
i almost cried.
+golden otis I was looking for this comment.
+golden otis he too
+golden otis same ahah
+Mvpgodx qt What a sad life you must live man.
+Grimxonic noone cries cause a video your pussys
idk why I'm only seeing this now, but this is fucking beautiful. I completely agree with you 100%.
100% true, I'we seen this video +20 times and I always get that amazing feeling when I watch it
Luka Rolak Same man - The words are so well chosen
SabotagePvP Stop playing, man. I was in the same boat. Way too stressful after all the shit that happens now.
Check out trinimortal's sexy Yasuo montages on his channel
Yeah I agree and I just saw this right now
I miss being level 7 and building Runaans on Annie and no one saying a thing and everyone being so incredibly nice. :(
And you always bought mobility boots :')
That's why I made a new account. Low levels are so innocent cause they haven't been exposed to the toxic waste that lies before them.
P3rspective But then you're just taking advantage of players that barely know the game...
Ella Bella boots is useless :p
This video suddenly came to mind. It’s been three years since I last watched it. I’ve played League for 7 years now and I grew up with it. I made so many memories, friends that I wouldnt be able to describe my childhood without League. I miss the innocence. I miss the rush of emotions I felt when I first played the game. I miss the days when people stayed to give honors and when everyone typed gg. It’s so ironical that nowadays I play the game to get stress.
Your ability to express is so touching and remarkable. Thank you for the great video
I uninstalled the game three days ago. I feel like I'm overcoming a vice. After one match, where I didn't say a thing, I tried to keep my teammates focused on the win, and tried to do everything perfectly, I still couldn't win, even if the matchups and the teams were in my favor. I played this game since 2013. 7 years being a Kassadin main, seeing highs and lows of this game. But, finishing a match, where I lost, trembling from frustration and bottled rage, almost to the verge of crying made me realize. This game sucks.
It doesn't matter how words can touch you deep inside. There is an unchangeable truth. This game still sucks. And Riot knows that. They'll capitalize on your own frustration, imprisoning you in your own vice, just to still have the status of the company that made the most popular game of nowadays. I'm still trying to realize how bad this was to me, and how nothing will change the truth. It's all over. I hope people can realize this aswell.
This video still brings tears to my eyes after all these years
750/750 tear fully stacked.
Best comment bro :D
Wow, the amount of awesome in this video is too damn high!!! Amazing job man!
Indeed
I love u RedMercy
What is Redmercy doing here? :D
Sup red
REDMERCYYYY
Everybody agrees, yet proceed to be the same
I always come back to this video, still breaks my heart..
riot should put this on the spot light in the client so everyone on league can see it and hopefull the community can be less toxic.
Aaaaand then, every new player(atleast kids), will look at the video, and think this : ohh, everyone is flaming every game, every second? Well then I shouldn't play the game. or they will think : oh, all the cool kids are flaming, I wanna flame too!!!!!! >:(
or less people flam
k warr flame*... just saying xD
thank u my bad
omg someone got corrected on youtube and didn't start a huge fight. HALLELUJAH!
Wow, this was very beautiful. The video itself is excellent, and the message even more so. I've stopped playing much League because of the toxic-ness of the players in the game, but I'm with you, I absolutely love League. I try to be the person to tell people to chill out, have fun, and it's just a game when someone gets mad at a team mate but then that only makes you the focus of more insults. It's so sad.
"I've already got 5 enemies on the other side, why should I have to deal with 4 more on mine." Spot on, dude.
Lol this is so deep. so deep.
Left the game surely, because u bad, and ppl troll'd u...mad?
Left for a better game. Nice bullying
***** they may be random people, but they are people you have to play with for anywhere between 20 minutes to over an hour. If you have 9 enemies in a 5v5 game it just makes it no fun. Toxicity is what has ruined league of legends, you get these kids who get on their high horses because they did well in a game. also, i can tell you're one of the toxic players of league, "quit being a cissy", lovely thing to say.
***** Meh, only played the game for a few months and I'm only in gold. I play games for fun, not on the basis of good or bad.
Toxic and arrogant people are why I hate playing Competetive multiplayer games these days.
It is ONLY about being the best. And if you are not the best, you are just a sad person who should quit the game.
When I was in 7th grade, everyone was playing CS 1.6. And asked me if I wanted to join them sometime. So I bought the game when it was on sale and we had our first match together. They were experienced players and I was just a beginner. So they yelled at me, bullied me, laughed at me. Even my dad could hear all the things they were calling out on me and he asked me why I was playing with so rude people?
Today, I would call myself an experienced player. But I would never go further than that. I am no more than the beginner who joined the game. I respect every player, is it too much to ask to get the same respect? We all booted up the game for a main reason. To have fun.
Whenever I see people yelling at eachother, screaming at eachother, Even when I used to play WoW, no matter who I was doing raids with, if I messed up or someone else did, they almost went so far to threaten me on my life. One guy even said he wished me and my family would die in a horrible car accident, or that I should go hang myself in the tree so my family could find me the morning after.
Is that really what gaming is about today? Why are people so low? I stay away from games such as LoL, Dota, Counter Strike and others. Not because I hate the game. I love the games. But because the community makes me sick. If you are one of those toxic players, grow up - and learn to treat your teammates and other playes, pro or not with some respect. Then maybe, you will learn what gaming is about. It's not about being the best - it's about having fun.
CaleoGaming You've said it pretty much.. competitive.. people will try what ever they can to win, if they don't and can't accept their loss they start to flame.. too bad 99% (roughly estimated since i only met like 5 nice persons yet on LoL) can't accept their loss
CaleoGaming I really need to say that i love video games. and i loveto win. but i love too troll too and so i dont yell at others when they fail. even when its my fuckin promo i try to be the nicest person eva!:D
CaleoGaming I agree thatn beeing a flamer and toxic player isn't right. But you say everyone wants to be the best in competetive multiplayer games. What's wrong with that? Competetive games are about comparing your skill with other players and trying to improve yourself. So what is wrong with trying to be the best?
CaleoGaming I totally agree , i know i'll never be a pro , or even really good at a game because someday i'll stop
So all the improvement will be useless. So i just play for fun , if i don't have fun i leave , and then i come back.
That's it , fun is the most important.
Im just like u man
i got emotional from min 2:15 on. so true man. i love that game. its really a passion but no matter what elo the people are just horribly toxic. even if you meet a really nice guy who's always friendly. if your teammates lose even he gets toxic...
no :)
Danny Behm sometimes, i dont flame since season 5 got banned last month cuz i got 4 premades trolling feeding so i flamed them, havent flamed for about a year, they reported me i got banned just cuz of that game... even tho i didnt quit league i just restarted... btw my old acc had 200+ friendly honors... :(
the reason why theres so many toxin prayers in legend of leaguer is because they have been exposed for so long in bronze elo hell, i myself restrain myself from toxicity but i cant help it that i get tired of getting matched up with the same feeder troll afking toxin teammates that sony matches me up with because theyre too lazy to fix matchmaking, i deserve challenjour, gg
Go home vortic, you are drunk... enough of trolling
I feel like this is one of the few videos vvvortic shouldn't even bother commenting on. This video is trying to basically inspire others to stop being a douchebag about a video game, where the results of each game don't affect our real lives.
u think u good kid? i tell u i am diamnd in solo and gold in 5s my team is futrture worlds winer.
Are you just another vvvortic wannabe? You're not very original.
i am international korean league of legends student from korea i am here in na to take over , come at me kid
Riot, give this man your money.
7 years later and this is still true
I keep coming back to this video for years now... I have never played LoL. But it hits feels hard. This is online gaming as a whole, not just LoL. I miss the old days. :/
Sooooooooooo much truth in this video... I almost cried. Awesome.
Coucou :D
i did cry xD
Fukano a faillit pleuré :p
Alan Duret i cry everytim
Jesus fuck this is melodramatic.
kinda the point
and also its a spin off of "why I love Jesus, but hate religion"
You can now buy the background music on bandcamp, Jesse spent months itself just working on the track and that is why the production quality is so high.
Support him if you'd like by buying here : flexofficial.bandcamp.com/track/the-story-of-us-all
+GamerNear Amazing joob bro i lissten this song before evrygame and i get from b5 to b2 in 4 days
+Jos K LMFAO
yo so Albert Einstein didn't say that, it's a common misconception. It's actually anonymous. Great vid!
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Reason why i stopped playing, i remember playing MF mid back in the day...
You could still do it.
PowerLord83 Yes but prepare your butthole when you try to.
MultiStryx For what? It doesnt matter what you play in normals.
PowerLord83 well if you read Near's post on FB you know what i mean
MultiStryx I think its silly to say that. There is ragy people, but not just on League, every game and many people irl are like that. Its not implemented in the game :P
Not every game have ragers and not every game goes to shit.
Right in the feels...
I FEEL you bro,
These guys should definitely keep making videos.That one was awesome.
This dude is wise and a great poet congrats and nice words
Jesus i feel like shit. I flame people all the time in my games whenever i get mad and dont realize that when people do the same to me they just feel the same way i did. Im gonna take a break. For some reason this video was really touching. A video about league of legends made me cry. Im such a baby lol.
While we start the revolution to stop toxicity, I propose we couple that with a revolution to stop people saying your when it's actually you're. It's a proven fact, most people who use "your" in place of "you're" are toxic. Coincidence? You decide.
@@whitenoiserelaxationandpro2632 Lmao and then you have this dude ^ (oh shit i just noticted it's been two year ago)
haha same :D
Riot feature this video please.
This was good fun to listen to. Has a good message too, kudos.
Hi solwolf
My my my look who it iis! #bigfan
The One in only SolWolf ladies and gentlemen! BREAK THE META!!!!!!
Heeeey the meta-breaker :D SWAIN AD PLZ
#breakthemeta
still gives me chills, great video man. loved it from the day of the upload
U made me cry
U are still righ we have to be the change
İ'll allways remember those wise words thanks!
+Egemen Birol game is fcked up beyond fix .. it used to be 1 retarded per team which u could handle.
Now is 3-7 (7 are the retards) and the team who gets the 2 good player wins
+Dimitris Xose Armando Ikr :/
chill down Uber quote
I know the feeling. Pre season 1. ashe mid. no designated roles. no jungler. only fun
I LOVE S1. Dude, go cho'gath yi bot and no one cries over it. S1 is either you win or lose, kill or get killed ,or ashe mid. Best Season ever, not as toxic as now
"I've already got five enemies on the other side, why should I deal with four more on mine" I'm not sure why, but that really hit me hard..
Yeah same
same! it's not always easy to time a smite and this happens to me quite often but i just reply "bad luck"
***** fucken deep
1 963 people are toxic players.
+PieguseK 1963 + few more millions
+GlášaTV 1 of each 1000 persons is toxic
+minecraftpepemaster you mean 1 of each 10
+TheRealRed I mean "isnt toxic"
you have literally said everything I have been feeling about league I congratulate you on your quest to find decent gameplay once more in league
RIOT FEATURE THIS VIDEO PLEASE I WANT MORE FRIENDLY TEAMMATES WHO DON'T GET PISSED AT EVERY MISTAKE Q~Q I WANT MY FREE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY BACK.
:D You will have it
At the time of this post, this video has over 96.6% approval rating.
It's been up for only a few hours and by my estimate has over 200,000 views.
This is going to be big. Rito will certainly reference it. All of the community will be afforded the opportunity to see it. This may have started something.......
Looking forward to it.. I'm probably not the only one that's quit the game after so long. I love the game, but I can't play without being put with a toxic team or against high level smurfs. Both need to be cracked down on
I became toxic and I admit it. From season one to season four I've been the role model that every teammate would've wanted. I was truly calm, always wanted to calm others as well. Never said a thing to anyone. I got criticized a lot and slowly started to break. Even though I've never trolled in ranked matches, and I never start complaining nor bash anyone first - I can't stand when someone starts blaming me. I know my mistakes, and I always accept them but I hate, just like in the video, when I, for example, miss the smite and suddenly find myself with 9 enemies in a match. I've never ever in my life said anything that would make my teammates tilt FIRST, but once I do start... it's a roller coaster.And I can't stand it, the dissemblance. For example if my teammate misses the smite I won't say jack, I promise you that. I still haven't had a chat ban but I felt the change inside. My own friends are in ow when they go duo with me. But they find it funny: "Hahaha take a look Jacen is flaming, the hell man, what happened?" because they still do not believe that I'm actually doing it. Nor do I believe. This game is a disease. Hateful comments inc, but this is my confession.
P.S. It might have to do with me always climbing the ladder since season one. I hit my peak at season four (diamond III) and didn't climb a single division eversince. It might be the cause, or the result. Thoughts?
break your boundaries. you're almost d1. thay means you're one of the best players in NA. you can almost go pro. that's why you're probs toxic. you're fate of becoming pro is decided upon by 4 others
+Luka Markač "This game is a disease"
THANK YOU.
Thank you for appreciative words.
I was reading through the comments and right when I read the 9 enemies makes this comment way more powerful than just the words
Man.. you are so right.. This game is indeed a disease.. That's the reason I stopped.. In this "speech" you said everything, you didn't need to say anything else.
This was beautiful man, I agree 100% with everything you said. I hope we (including me) can change this game around for the better.
Good Luck on the Rift Summoners
People desire to win? HAHAHAHA. Sure doesn't seem that way when I queue up.
People play for fun. And losing is fun to a lot of people.
How do I know this? Because I've seen teams go 3 - 28 and still refuse to surrender.
People love losing.
i'd really love to play with the people you play with because the senario you speak of is something I can only dream about.
agreed. unless I get drop hacked.
still refuse to surrender.... maybe because 2 of the people on there team don't want to surrender and the other players have to playe or get reported
YES i agree...I can't stand surrendering...been through plenty of surrender calls where they try but lose the vote then rage and leave and our team 4v5 even 3v5 still win.
I have had many a game where I was on that losing side, ready to call it quits... but that One end game ace that enabled us to push down 4 turrets an inhib and the base for the win.
Score shows the clear advantage, it isn't over until it is over.
And yeah, I've been on the other end too, on a game that was something like 58/12 (our favor) and the enemy team gets an ace or backdoors a secure victory. :/ Undeserving? Losing? Perseverance.
750/750 tear fully stacked.
would stack again
BibleThump
I've watched this countless times, such a beautiful and inspiring video :))
+Holy fucking shit this username is so god danm long. I didn't know usernames can be this long! Great Username XD
soooo fuuuucking EPIC watched this a year ago and now it's even more epic love this video you have done a great work man :) thx
Welcome to the League of Feels
Missed it by that much.
Goosebumps since the first second of the video...This is amazing and the message even better. *thumbs up*
Shaclone brought me here. You are all lucky not playing on my country's server.. PH.
this video is really good .
Baron StealerPH what do you mean by lucky?
Is it a bad thing or a good thing?
Is it a challenge because your a good player?
does that mean your country's server is the best?
Please explain.
Watching it again so many years later. On my favourite videos list. Classic, everlasting
I do understand that people take ranked seriously. But I never understood people taking normals like it's life and death.
+Elvathar People take casual more seriously than ranked. All that is required is picking a summoner ability not according with the meta and everybody explodes.
Thats why I only play ranked, its actually more relaxed and quiet than normal, ironically
Seriously. The community fucking sucks
I came into this video thinking it'd just be a commentary on why you in specifically hated League, but this... This is powerful.
the message he actually was trying to get across was:
"fix euw"
the lyrics went deep everytime again
oq You Dont Know Jack po the ultimate league of legends playlist 3.... also hi
As young as Overwatch is, I already begin to feel the same for it.
Overwatch is too easy, too casual, it will never get to LoL level
I 100% disagree. At a pro level, I agree, but let's face it, Solo Q is so predictable and boring and the meta just encourages repetition and just doing the motions instead of re-inventing. Snowballing leaves so little room for someone suffering from a feeder to do anything. Overwatch is a new game every time. If you fuck up and die, you might get flamed, but at least I can respawn and charge back in knowing that I still have a chance to make a change. I can also properly strategize with VoIP. League will never be as competitive as Overwatch, I can't even talk to my teammates, how am I supposed to strategize? Pings? Not the same.
We need to stop treating esports as purely mechanical skill-based. They are and will always be more than that. Almost every diamond player can hit 90 CS at 10 min no problem but none of them know when to call for Baron, or to call the right rotations. Overwatch is easier to play, yes. But everyone gets the same benefits, high elo Overwatch isn't any less competitive, all of that extra shit I don't have to worry about in LoL lets me do more in Overwatch. Communication and Leadership aren't skills you need in League, but the real question is how much do you value those in other games?
Remove the "League will never be as competitive as Overwatch" and you have a sound opinion there. Competitiveness is only influenced by teams involved in a game. In esports a competitive tournament is determined by how many teams are similar in strength, and teams are only similar in strength when pushing the boundaries of gameplay, which leads to metas. Before when Winston comps were a thing it was definitely not a different game every time, and the comps picked on most map were the same for rush 1 point capture,chokes, open fields, and end pushing. Even in solo casuals games pretty much flow the same way every game, considering theres only 1 way you can go, which is forward. All games are played within its limited space, they arent real life and even real life games are constrained by the boundaries of rules and reality. When we play a game we can pretty much predict what will happen because in a game having everything be random is not ideal, we play and watch for the controlled outcomes that lead to wins.
Dragynn999 yeah your right it's gotten so bad
I may be a Dota 2 player (which I know, you guys hate) but I must say that I can totally relate to this video. All MOBAs start as fun but when you come to the point where the matchmaker sends you to play with the pros, that's when you find out how horrible and judgmental the higher community really is. It's really sad.
We don't all hate dota. I don't. I personally started out playing dota in wc3 so i will always have respect for the players and the fanbase. It really sucks we have to distance ourselves so far from each other when our interest our so similar. Kind of like the people we play with as the video illustrates.
As an ex top 20 WoW player I can tell you that any high level community is horrible and toxic
I don't hate you, I actually want to get into DOTA 2, but right now it just collecting dust in my Steam Library.
Why do you say "I may be"? Are you one or not? ...
Most Dota players hate LoL because Guinsoo and Pendragon betrayed them.
This should be required of every League player... Even me.
I get goosebumps every time I listen to this. The lyrics are very emotional to me. I listen to this every time I get tilted and I just egt sad instead, and I get inspired to be a better player in terms of attitude. I just wish Riot would feature this video, we could need it. This is easily the best video on the internet. Thank you for this.
This speech... is absolutely amazing man, well done!
Speechless...
omg u commented on this vid what up brofesco im a pimpson player
Its not even ingame only, its all over the place, sportsmanship and respect to others has to be developed, and it will prob take a while for community to grow up
HI RF I WATCH YOUR STEAM ALL THE TIME
xKnetic hello, thanks for your commitment and support :)
im sorry for inability to stream all the time, I wish, but this video describes my reason behind that
RF i to watch your stream a lot :D
***** He said steam not stream, cmon RF get your shit together
Redmercy Hi Redmercy big fan ^_^
Came back to rewatch this, to remember why I am still playing. There needs to be more motivational speakers like you when it comes to games, hope you continue to inspire others.
As someone who strted in 2020 and my friend swnt me this today i feel it so much ... conveying your toughts is realy nice to see in the world
so Much Feels.
Riot must spread this video , they must put this on the menu screen.. not fucking the new rumble skin if they want to game to improve !!
The part of when you said I know you can remember your first victory, I had some kind of chills that I never had. My entire body was shaking for a few seconds... Wow.
Every year since September 2014 I'm coming back at least once to this video.
Thank You man.
RIOT PLEASE UPLOAD THIS ON MAIN PAGE OF CLIENT AND FACEBOOK. PLEASE. THIS WOULD MAKE THIS GAME BETTER THAN ANY PATHES THAT HAS CAME OUT
"That person we've been labeling toxic is something we created."
Lost it. Broke down in tears since its so true.
i subscribed just because of this video. I love this, I totally understand thank you for caring man. this is how i feel during any solo que game. i love this game so much that its come down to only playing with friends. never just for a fun game on my own time. beautifully done. GamerNear
saw this years ago, and found it again... this is what i needed, the inspiration that everyone needs to have. thank you for doing this
Playing premade 5 is the only reason I keep playing League of Legends. This way, I can have fun. And this is also why I'm still in my placement matches for Season 4. Fuck Solo Queue.
Well im a dota player but this is awesome proud to call myself a gamer !!
Man, im crying right now, so much truth in so little words, appreciate your video, your wise words, i know it's just a game, but we learn a lot even if we don't notice. Love you bro...
MO-TI-FUCKING-VATIOON!
+CHILLZONE How are you verificated, you have 16k subs?
+Milos Arts his dad owns youtube
Je Suis Hulk Yeah and my dad is allah
Milos Arts
mine 2 we are bro's ???
Je Suis Hulk ...
Im copy pasting this on every single end of ever match win or lose. Its time to spread this around. You inspire me :)
Every*
Same bro if u want u can add me im silver 5 and iv been through the fire of bronze and i fought through it "Haymaker666"
Sure man. Im getting so many trolls though xD Bronze elo .-. But I try to get along.
Tristan Malo LOL you are quite funny if you think that in silver or gold there aren't flamers
the sad thing about this song. is how true is is
is this a song or are you just drunk :D
or maybe both :D
i want to be but i'm underage
haha where do you live and i can buy to you :D
Jakob Hyldgaard i live in israel. but thanks anyway.
What if I told you, that I love League of Legends, but I hate playing the game? That one of the game that I love most slowly turned into my bane and came so close to almost driving me insane. The game that could give me hours of enjoyment a day slowly faded to gray and on occasion made me question why I even played?
But I never stopped.
Albert Einstein once said: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the results to change" See, for a long time I believed my actions in a community so large I couldn't even begin to fathom wouldn't have a butterfly effect on the other players in my faction.
We never saw it coming.
From the moment we downloaded the launcher and typed in the summoner name we thought of and chosen. Little did we know we opened up a world that would cause us to feel like we're going through the motions. None of us knew when we started that very first match, and I know you will remember it, I know you can remember this how that match would start something did spark something embedded inside of us.
That desire to win.
Victory was something we'd strive for and we logged on every night for. The game was beautiful, magic, and it just so happened that there wasn't any META, no team compilation that was better, because every player was innocent, and we didn't know the difference between who uses attack damage and AP, so daily we'd see people failing
cause they tried playing Swain AD.
But we didn't care, that we could ignore, because we were too busy trying to get that Infinity Edge on Annie we've been saving for. So as a result, they'd feed, and we'd feed. But somehow, eventually after was seemed like an eternity we had that one game were we got our first VICTORY and it made it
all worth it.
All the frustration, the lack of team communication and the times we lost our patience didn't matter because that one victory was the defining moment signaling that we have improved and we savored every second of it, we'd come out on top somehow nothing could stop us now the battle was won, it was over,
DONE
We were so happy.
But through this hardship, is where it all started, even now I can't grasp it, because I don't know where we went wrong but somewhere along the line we decided that scoring a win was more important than our teammates. Playing this game went from an uphill struggle to improve to a downward spiral of abuse. At what stage did we decide that we were any better, like we haven't made the same mistake or gone outside the meta, but instead of showing some patience we become filled with hatred, now if I ever see a player raging at someone failing I can feel my heart breaking because I know that that person we've been labeling as toxic is someone we created, and I hate it. And recently, I can't seem to get a single game where a team will treat each other decently, it's eatin me knowing when I log onto league just to see people teasing and criticizing each other just because someone had a disagreement.
I've already got five enemies on the other side, why should I have to deal with four more on mine just because of that one baron fight I mistimed my smite. People talk about this community like they're not a part of it, but we are and there's not masking it, if League of Legends were a living thing, we'd be a heart of it, and our heartbeat has stopped, so right now I'm jump starting it.
I love League of Legends but hate playing it.
You want a reason to change? Take a pick, my reason is plain as this: I wanna get that feeling back, playing a match with complete strangers but feeling like I'm playing with people who are the exact same as me. So let's bring that back, I miss feeling that.
You have to be the change you wish to see in the world, so change
It's like we watched the same video, crazy
thanks for transcripting it bro.
Thank you SO much for this! I’m Mexican and recently my pals and I got to a point when we just play with each other, and never alone, out of lack of motivation and fear. When I found this video I wanted to show them ASAP but I can’t because there’s no subtitles...
Now I can go to google traductor.. (I hope that’s ok) Thank you!
I absolutely love this. The message, emotion and delivery is perfect. Great work, thanks for the inspiration! =)
Thanks CollectivePOV, appreciated.
This video isn't about using the mute button.
It's about not needing to......
After like 4 months not playing lol i want to play it again because of you ;) you reminded me old times that were just magic first wins, all hard games and loses. After listening to this i want to feel this pleasure from winning game with my mates.
Thank you ;)
I only just found this a few days ago and every single time I listen to it, I look back to when I first started playing League. It was exactly how you described it. Now I look at myself and wonder why I am the way I am. It actually opened my eyes up to a point where I physically and mentally feel bad when I start flaming people who are doing bad, or aren't as good as me.
Thank you for opening my eyes and reminding me that I have to be the change.
Why are people saying we should just 'get thick-skinned' about league? You wouldn't let some random stranger insult the crap out of you and harass you in the street or at home, the internet is no different, you shouldn't have to mute people, it should be just a game where people have fun, like any other sport where people treat each other with respect
Nikola Tomic I think that the real problem is the lack of respect. And it's happening everywhere. Instead of just passing the idea of respect to the next generation to come we've been doing too much "thick skinning" and it's becoming out of control!
This Video should be put into the Client so People see it and understand that they have to stop Flaming and all that Stuff. This Video is sooooooo good pls Riot.
Needs way more viewers and does a really sweet message. Gj
Damn this hit me right in the feels because I have been with this game along time i have over 1.2k wins witch means it have played for a long time and I haven't seen the community get any better but I hope many of us strive to change this community and the game
I'm quitting League today. I'm done with the trolls, people raging against each other (including myself), quitters/afk, anyfuckingrole or feed. I'm really tired and I feel like I'm failing myself just giving up. So, I remebered the day I saw this video and I'm watching it again, and I'm crying so bad. I'm still leaving, but thank you for that message. I really love this game, but nothing is worse or painful than play it.
Peace.
I hope you find the right people to play with. That's what changed it for me. Having friends make the game 10 times better
Find team mates, don't let the toxic people beat you!
Its sad to hear that some people never use teamspeak/curse voice.
Empty aryan Aryan, I used to play in the main source of trolling in League: BR. I don't like to read they fucked my mother, and I wouldn't be glad to hear that, also.
Erick Costa Ah i playd in br server one time and i got called gringo cause i dont speak portuguese, Just mute them or play with friends but yea brazil server is proboly one of the worst ones.
God dam ninjas chopping onions in my room.
Lol
Amazing, I miss the time that I used to build BT to Annie, since you uploaded this video to now, nothing changed, this make me so sad
6 YEARS LATER GOING INTO SEASON 11 THIS STILL HOLDS SO TRUE
Ignore the fact that he is talking about a game. Think about it, he is pretty much saying be good to one another. Respect people and their lifestyle. Reminds me of a poetry jam, very well done. Bravo
I'm was toxic, but after watching this I felt like being more toxic.
Still toxic.
***** Copy ok why are u toxic, ask your self that then take that answer and apply it to your next game or for something in real life.
I realised that 90% of the players that I play are toxic, so I should also join that 90%. It's common that humans like ourselves like to join the dominating team.
Most of the time it's troll.
***** lol. Lame. Don't you know its always more fun to route for the underdog. That way, when the underdog catches up with the overbearing majority, people's feelings shift. I play games for enjoyment and to take a break from day to day grinding. Life has enough struggles on a day to day basis, why make more in something your doing for fun?
I dont play league Anymore but i come back to this video periodically because the message is just so strong
You my best sir, deserve a cookie, you know what you deserv the whole cookie plate. You are now my new idol and this literely almost got me to tears, this is really inspiring and I think that if all lol players out there, toxic or not, would just sit down and watch this, it would lead to a huge improvement in the community. And I hope that riot have recognized you in some way, because after watching this video I can say that me myself have acutely improved both as a player, also as a teamplayer. I feel like I can't express hove awesome this is, but I can say this, it's the best league related video on the whole internet. Pretty much all other videos are for your personal enjoyment, you watch it, you appreciate it, and you forget it, but this one will stay with you
No one realizes this is a "remix" of Why I love Jesus but Hate Religion? It's a spoken poetry, that's what he's doing. K.. that was all I had to say
i do :> even the way he talks
why isn't everyone upvoting this
Rob Reinholz
Because not all of us are Christians or Catholics. I for one am atheist and think religion is all just a way of seeing someone as different.
But it still send us a message. No matter if it's a remix, a parodie or selfmade. This video shows us what WE had done to League and it's up to us, to change it.
So? It's still good. Plentakill does the same thing and they're still amazing. Just go with it man :-)
So true everybody must like this video to see a change.
I really thank you,
Because of this video i realized that im to emotionaly implicated in the game,and u kinda made me cry cuz u remembered me of the old times of league and i decided to focus on real life more then on league,i will still play the game but instead of playing it 10 hours a day i will play as little as possible,and i hope i can pull this off at least half a year cuz in 2 mounths and a half i have a rly important thing to do and i really need to prepare for it,
I thank u
Sry if i misspelled words
One of the most touching spoken words I've listened to. No words come to mind other than beautiful :') this. is. truth. the instrumental is amazing, the typography on point, the words... the words like the oxygen we breathe.
good ass video, really shows the toxicity and reason I think twice before logging on to play a match
WHAT THE FUCK, SO MANY FEELS, made me feel like crying dude jesussssssssss
Wow, that was so deep.
really made me think about my actions in game.
thank you Near!
that... was beautiful dude, you made me change my mind about playing league... from now on i´ll be like a puppy, and try to improve the comunity as well... thanks man, now im going to listen to ir again. bye :´)