I've heard the trailer of Arcane 2 came out, three years after the first season a second one is finally arriving.
So I wanted to tell you a story, regarding why I can't fully appreciate this show and why I will never be able to.
As many of you surely know Arcane is the TV series based on the successful video game League of Legends made by Riot Games.
A game which I have been and hardcore player for over a decade.
I've been playing for 12 freaking years since Sept 2012.
I've peaked Emerald in Season 13 and Season 14 (11% of best players of Eu West server).
But now I am finally done with League of Legends, I managed to stop playing and I don't plan to ever come back. But its not really a great win, since I've stopped only thanks to the fact that all, literally every single one of the friends I've played with are no longer playing and have now a job. Which helped me realize how irrelevant my in-game progress were, and how little my real life had progressed because of the fake self-realization feeling, the dopamine this game was able to produce in me.
I do have a lot of regrets looking back at these years I wasted time playing.
Back in the day, around years 2014-15, I started to play more and more because I felt lonely, and I felt I could not be liked by people. But playing the game only made me even more lonely and isolated, because I was focusing on the game instead of focusing on overcoming my own problems and flaws to become a better person.
As I used to say: "When I enter in the Rift (the Summoner's Rift, the main map of the game where players clash against each other), all my problems remain outside of it".
And this is exactly what happened, because the game was able to alienate me completely from the real world and from my real, miserabile life.
And I was saying that as if it was a good thing, but it was absolutely not. You can't run away forever, or nothing will change for the better.
Everytime I felt stressed, there was a difficult situation, instead of dealing with it I would have simply ran into playing some games of League. And to make it worse these games would often be over-competitive, over-toxic and would simply results in creating in me even more stress, but an unneccessary and only harmful kind of stress, because not related to real life problems but only to the game. Fake, irrelevant problems, only existing to harm the brain and disconnect it further from reality; like a game that went terribily wrong, or a random player I had a verbal fight with.
If you are suffering like me from League or any other video game's addiction, remember that you too can become a better person, you too have talent, you too can be appreciated. Stop wasting time on video games, focus on yourself, focus on the game that matters the most: the game of life.
Sorry for what some of you may see as an unnecessary rant, but I wanted to share with you my experience. An experience that I share with million and millions of other players whose life were partially (at least) ruined by this game. Players that game after game, buying new skin after new skin, made it possible for this show to exist.
This is the reason why I will never be able to fully enjoy Arcane, no matter how good the show can be.
Post scriptum
This doesn't have much to do with the thread but I think is an interesting fact and maybe some competitive player/former competitive player can relate with it.
One more reason I can't fully appreciate the show is that, because of all these years I've played the game with a toxic competitive mindset (like all the other players you meet in 99% of games) I will never be able to see characters like Jinx or Jayce as actual characters with personalities and emotions, but always as Champions: tools of destruction with a certain moveset, picked to try to stomp your opponent and play to win the game, while everybody is insulting each other and his mum.
So I wanted to tell you a story, regarding why I can't fully appreciate this show and why I will never be able to.
As many of you surely know Arcane is the TV series based on the successful video game League of Legends made by Riot Games.
A game which I have been and hardcore player for over a decade.
I've been playing for 12 freaking years since Sept 2012.
I've peaked Emerald in Season 13 and Season 14 (11% of best players of Eu West server).
But now I am finally done with League of Legends, I managed to stop playing and I don't plan to ever come back. But its not really a great win, since I've stopped only thanks to the fact that all, literally every single one of the friends I've played with are no longer playing and have now a job. Which helped me realize how irrelevant my in-game progress were, and how little my real life had progressed because of the fake self-realization feeling, the dopamine this game was able to produce in me.
I do have a lot of regrets looking back at these years I wasted time playing.
Back in the day, around years 2014-15, I started to play more and more because I felt lonely, and I felt I could not be liked by people. But playing the game only made me even more lonely and isolated, because I was focusing on the game instead of focusing on overcoming my own problems and flaws to become a better person.
As I used to say: "When I enter in the Rift (the Summoner's Rift, the main map of the game where players clash against each other), all my problems remain outside of it".
And this is exactly what happened, because the game was able to alienate me completely from the real world and from my real, miserabile life.
And I was saying that as if it was a good thing, but it was absolutely not. You can't run away forever, or nothing will change for the better.
Everytime I felt stressed, there was a difficult situation, instead of dealing with it I would have simply ran into playing some games of League. And to make it worse these games would often be over-competitive, over-toxic and would simply results in creating in me even more stress, but an unneccessary and only harmful kind of stress, because not related to real life problems but only to the game. Fake, irrelevant problems, only existing to harm the brain and disconnect it further from reality; like a game that went terribily wrong, or a random player I had a verbal fight with.
If you are suffering like me from League or any other video game's addiction, remember that you too can become a better person, you too have talent, you too can be appreciated. Stop wasting time on video games, focus on yourself, focus on the game that matters the most: the game of life.
Sorry for what some of you may see as an unnecessary rant, but I wanted to share with you my experience. An experience that I share with million and millions of other players whose life were partially (at least) ruined by this game. Players that game after game, buying new skin after new skin, made it possible for this show to exist.
This is the reason why I will never be able to fully enjoy Arcane, no matter how good the show can be.
Post scriptum
This doesn't have much to do with the thread but I think is an interesting fact and maybe some competitive player/former competitive player can relate with it.
One more reason I can't fully appreciate the show is that, because of all these years I've played the game with a toxic competitive mindset (like all the other players you meet in 99% of games) I will never be able to see characters like Jinx or Jayce as actual characters with personalities and emotions, but always as Champions: tools of destruction with a certain moveset, picked to try to stomp your opponent and play to win the game, while everybody is insulting each other and his mum.
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