Well Season 3 is a wrap for me. Just finished my 2500th ranked season 3 game, it was a loss after going on a 4 game win streak. Wish I could have ended it with a bang but oh well! I have the shittiest record at 1254 Wins, 1246 losses... a mere 8 games over .500. I was hoping to end at 10 games over but that last loss fucked me. I fed hard too which makes it worse. Oh well!
I achieved my goal this season: ended in Gold.
I started this game during Season 2 and hovered around 800-1200 Elo. I started Season 3 in Silver I and I managed to stay in Silver for nearly 1600 ranked games. I thought I would never see Gold. My peak was Gold I with 40 games over .500. I started to feel invincible and all of a sudden a switch flipped and I started losing a bunch, then demotion after demotion until I was at Gold V. Either I had a really good "lucky" streak to get to Gold I or I just started playing like shit again. I was ~20 wins over .500 just a couple days ago but after losing my promo for the 3rd time to get back to Gold 2 I started thinking platinum wasn't possible anymore with the time alotted and started playing some random champs/builds I always wanted to try.
I get a lot of flak about my 2500 games. It's kinda funny actually considering I probably do more in my personal life than most of the "kids" commenting about my number of games. I don't consider people on this message board in the same league as the LoL-kiddies btw, this board is generally an older audience, and more mature, people here have seen the MMO addicts and aren't as shocked with such things. I do play this game a lot, it is the ONLY video game I play. I don't feel like I have to justify my time but heck, I kinda want to at least once, so I will. Forgive me if I use this space to unnecessarily justify my playing habits.
I work a 50 hour week in addition to running a small business, married, house, dog, and running my 3rd marathon next Sunday. I squeeze in LoL between all the work/running and somehow accrued 2500 games. I figure it equates to about ~52 days played (using 30 minutes as an average game time). 2 months of playtime over the past year have been dedicated to this game - it is definitely a lot, but the time somehow flew. I tend to get 2 days a week where my wife's pulling a double and works ~14 hours straight and I'll typically play LoL the entire time assuming I'm not working.
My desire for Season 4 is to cut back a bit. I am going to start the Season very try-hard mode and see if I can make another run up to Gold I and perhaps to Platinum. Honestly Gold was my primary goal and I told myself I'd play this game until I got it, so I did, I still played a shitload more because somehow I got to Gold I and thought Plat was within reach. I really don't have as strong a desire to obtain Plat and if I find myself 100s-1000s of games into the Season and still floundering around Silver-Gold level I'll probably go super-casual mode. Basically I feel like Season 3 was a year for LoL and now it's almost time to move on. I do enjoy the game and without another "addiciton" to migrate to I feel like I'll be playing this game for a while longer, but I am going to cut back at the least and spend more time expanding my business and leveling up IRL. Kids may be soon and then it'll all be over anyway... until their old enough for me to teach them to play games at least.
If anyone around my rating wants to duo Season 4 placements, let me know. As far as I understand it ranked actually won't be reset until some later date. I'll probably take a nice break and play casually until ranked means something again.
