

There’s now a season pass sort of option as well, something that we’ve seen in games like SMITE and other lobby games where you pay an upfront fee to access new cosmetic items and participate in a limited-time event. It’s also neat to learn how you earned said skins/icons and when that occurred, something that was missing from the prior version of the launcher. Now you can see your “collection” of champions, skins, icons, ward skins and more in a handy interface that is less convoluted than it was before.

I also earned a few icons that were applied to my account last year so I know I had to have logged in, but I didn’t play as my match history has shown. They redesigned the launcher at some point, and apparently I did log in sometime in 2017, as my launcher was already updated there were just the normal game patches to get through. But hey, my backlog thanks me for the break, I suppose.īoy, things have changed. And somehow or another, despite thinking about firing it up on multiple occasions, it took me til now to actual do so. It’s just at that point I sort of put LoL on the back burner after having played pretty seriously for years prior. That’s not to say that gaming has fallen by the wayside, as clearly I have been plugging away at my backlog along with trying new things since then. I met my girlfriend earlier in 2016, but we were officially “an item” by August, and from then on I spent less time gaming and more time with her.

I honestly don’t know where that time went, outside of the fact that I know what changes occurred in my life around that time. If you take a look at my match history, you’ll see that the last game I had played was in August of 2016, until the other day when I played, a full two years and a couple of months later. With LoL I played nearly every day for years, and then when I didn’t play for like a month I’d be sucked back in by some new champion or event. My most recent trek back to Norrath was through the end of last year into early this year and only lasted for that short amount of time. Whereas with EQ2, my only regular play time was from about 2006-2008, and then it was very sporadic and for only a couple of months at a time. If it isn’t, it’s a close second to EverQuest 2, but I imagine that I have spent more time playing LoL due to the fact that I started playing the game way back in 2011, and only took a couple of breaks here and there for short amounts of time outside of my most recent break from the game. League of Legends is probably my most played game of all time.
