To be fair, old rune system was a good point for "no smurfing". Cause without the runes you were pretty fcked up in ranked queue.
ThePykeSon
Old League had something special. Something that was perfect. And those were my old axes.
dravendraven
1) They didn't make the runes free because the "codding didn't allow that". It did allow them to make it cost 1 IP/rune though, they just wanted to make as much cash as possible off the IP boosts.
2) The rune system in general allowed a lot of optimization with the only (but major) problem it being P2W (6300 for a page, ~12-18k to fill it with runes given you don't have any) and Riot's greed. Concerning the second - at least we didn't have the balancing around upcoming skins back then.
3) The infinite queue bug was pretty rare since like s2. It happened way less often than league client breaking for no good reason right before the loading screen giving you a free loss because it takes forever to repair. Legacy client since S3 was generally more stable than what we have now.
4) The only real good features new client had introduced was the knowledge of the side you're playing on and the ability to read the patch notes without going to the site. Both of those STILL are implemented like crap.
5) The old client wouldn't eat 80% of your CPU because some genius decided to render 12 WEBMs on your processor on the main page of the client.
6) During those times people liked Riot and were somehow proud to be a part of the community. Now? - even the most addicted players would scold Rito and call the game a complete crap.
Rubinrus
Though I am into modern graphics, the league client had dated graphics but those had something that still holds a place in my heart
aurorasdrawingcorner
It was better because of the community, at the time most people didnt even know what is a meta because most people didnt care, nowadays is all about following the meta and getting to x rank to prove how superior you are.
Most dont play for fun anymore which led to this horrible community, its evolution happening.
julianthegreat
Old league had an policy off "if everything is broken why bother fixing it?" and it quite worked well you could have done anything with barelly any concequenses now its pretty "play this or you will lose" which leads kinda the game getting bitter
misteriousgamers
Nah bro old client was too good for us that is why they nerfed it
makiskanyt
I still liked old runes and masteries more. At least I could fine tune my stats the way I wanted. And old school top laners remember the 1% crit chance.
And I'm hard pressed to believe this client is that much better. This one constantly breaks every patch too, just like the old one.
XAnnymousX
The old client was the best thing.
Remember when we had both clients and everyone used the old instead of the new one because it simply was better?
saitamaro
It is easier to buy any champion for new accounts that's true.
But there was that feeling of earning your champion with the amount of grind you did for them, the new blue essence makes me not want to spend those blue fragments all in one place because I can choose any champion and later be able to buy another one easily, but if I wasted it all I wouldn't be able to buy any champion for an eternity... wow, how boring.
shadnatic
The old League graphics were dated, but they were better. It was a unique style that fit League perfectly. The new client looks more like Dota 2
Also in old League it was actually possible to comeback. Nowadays if the enemy bot got fed, it's GG since the Miss Fortune or Caitlyn is just gonna one-shot everyone. No amount of assassins can even stop them.
taavidude
old runes were awesome, even if the client bugged (I don't remember it ever bugging) it wasn't as buggy as the current one.
miniboymark
You don't miss the old League Of Legends, you miss your old memories dude...
ataturschu
They got rid of old champion select music, that reason is enough
Powerate
Old League had me with enough friends interested in it that i could 5-man all hours of the day.
Man someone Ekko ult me back to season 2, i want to play my janky Mordekaiser mid...
SpookSkellington
Still, I don't understand why in the old honor system you could honor an enemy, and now you can't. It feels like the new honor system does not admit sportmanship.
ciccioflamer
Who else had forgotten how old league looked like until today?
garbomemer
Till this day i defend that we should have runes and talents BUT all runes are free so that it don't become pay to win but will allow players to tinker more like that time when u ran exp runes on talon to get lvl2 first and try for an early kill
BirdmanTCG
all the client sided things were worse back then, and runes and stuff yes, but the game itself was better, which is all any1 cares about anyway
jususi
New client is a whole circus, so buggy. one thing tho, it is so consistently broken that you expect it
