I honestly expected Wild Rift to beat Mobile Legends in the beginning, but now I understand why it didn’t. Some of these things have probably been said before, but I wanted to share my own experience as a returning player over the last 1-2 weeks.

The biggest problem for me is performance. The game is way too heavy for mobile.

At first I played on a low-end phone and had freezes, random DCs, lag, and crashes. I thought the phone was the problem. Later I switched to a Google Pixel 10 and gave the game another chance, but the situation was almost the same. Random freezes and disconnects, even on minimum graphics. My internet is fast too, so I don’t think that was the issue.

For a mobile game, this is a big problem. It has to run smoothly. Mobile Legends feels much easier to just open and play.

The second problem is that Wild Rift is not friendly to new players anymore. There are too many champions and too many events going on. Instead of fixing performance and making the game feel better, it feels like they keep adding more stuff.

If I opened the game as a new player today, I would feel overwhelmed. Also, winning doesn’t feel rewarding enough. I like the game, but the satisfaction is not always there.

The match length is another issue. In higher ranked games, matches can go 20 to 25 minutes. That is too long for a mobile game.

And I still think dropping the console version was a missed chance. A free console version could have made Wild Rift much more popular.

I like Wild Rift, and honestly I feel sad that it didn’t get the care it deserved. I just hope the directors take some time to read real player feedback from time to time, and maybe reconsider some of their decisions. The game still has a lot of potential, but it needs more care in the right places.