Showing posts with label League of Legends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label League of Legends. Show all posts

16 May 2012

League of Legends - Things your team members do that make you rage


We've all experienced it before, terrible team members that make you rage and want to quit LoL forever.

Riot has made games unnecessarily long, a game in Summoner's rift on average can take anywhere from 30-45 minutes to complete. That is a SINGLE game and a lot of time/ In the past players were able to do a surrender vote in 15 minutes, now it is 20 minutes. Why has this happened? Because of the constant nerfing of items, players, summoner abilities, we have to be dragged through this very long and sometimes boring fight. So much time and energy is spent on ONE game that it makes many players angry when one person starts to troll, feed, or not communicate with the team.

Here is a list of the things that makes me rage when playing solo que:

Communication
-Players that don't speak English
-Players that don't say a single word during the game. You might be stuck in a team with poor composition and at a disadvantage, however if you can communicate and move together as a group, winning in endgame is easy.
-It is a TEAM game, yet there are people that run off and do their own thing completely mindless or ignoring what the rest of the team is doing.

Game play
-Players that don't buy wards. Buying wards in LoL is a necessity,  not an option. Catching the enemy team off-guard while they are doing Baron Nashor, Dragon, buffs, etc. can be a winning move. Too often one person will be the only person buy wards, and worse no one buys wards. Losing a game because team members will not help pitch in 75 gold to buy wards is really stupid.
-Ping spam. Riot has limited the amount of ping spam, but it still happens. Trolls work around this buy doing a slow ping spam, or burst of ping spam.
-Players that only farm. Farming in LoL is a required, however there are some players who farm, and that is it. They do not help during team fights, do not attack enemy champions, they just sit there and farm all day. What is the point of farming if you lose the game? The objective of the game is to win, not to see how much gold you can earn. It should also be noted that killing champions, assists, and taking down towers earn much more gold than farming, yet some players do not see this simple fact.


Team composition
-Having no ranged AD. Absolutely stupid, you need ranged to win, unless you are playing against noobs. With no ranged they can kite you all day long, this is so obvious yet I see it happen all the time.
-All suishy. Teams that are all glass cannons are really stupid. Nobody can take the initiative or dive. All that happens is a bunch of running around scared where the enemy team can pick you off one by one.
-No Tanks. Similar to all squishy.

Comment below if anything about your team makes you rage in League of Legends.


28 July 2011

Why League of Legends is unbalanced


I found this post on this thread and it sums up why Riot purposely has champions unbalanced.

"Gameplay imbalances."

The reason for these, is quite simply to make Riot money. Look at how many people buy brand new champions as soon as it's released. If they describe it as overpowered, and show it as overpowered, chances are, people want to buy them so they can dominate as well.

If there's anyone who hasn't watched the latest Kayle spotlight, go do so. Look at how powerful they make Kayle look late game to the regular eye. It makes it look like she is an awesome champion. Until you realize she's level 18, and the enemies are mostly level 13.
Take any of the champions into perspective. They make them sound awesome to begin with. Ever so amazing in all of the champion spotlights. Most of them turn out to be far from it.

It's all a big marketing ploy. All of it. Everything Riot does, is to get money towards their game. Although, many who don't look close enough won't see it.

I've already put enough money into this game, so I'm afraid to put this game to rest in my computer. Then I remember all of the disadvantages of playing this game, as listed in the original post."
                                                                                                           
and also
      
"In an interview, a riot employee said that that don't keep ever champ balanced because first of all, it makes it is more interesting. And also, because the op champs sell more, making riot money."

This is quite disappointing because Riot is more concerned about making money short-term and looking good on paper for Chinese investors rather than caring about long-term customer loyalty and value. In Spring of 2011 Riot was bought by the Chinese company Tencent, which explains why Riot is always releasing boring champions and skins, but not improving the game at all. Riot is just another greedy company that uses League of Legends to make money. Will Riot change to a video game company that cares about its customers and providing quality game play? I highly doubt it, they are too greedy and care more about Chinese investors more than anything else. I finally got sick of how Riot was running League of Legends that I haven't bought a champion or any skins for a very long time. Riot lost a customer and I hope more people would realize this and quit playing LoL.