10-15-2010, 11:41 AM
Just a point of clarification - I'm fairly sure champs have been released around every 3-4 weeks lately.
No matter what they do, someone is going to claim they are doing it because they are greedy corporate whores who don't care about their game beyond the money they are allegedly rolling in.
That's why some champs are retardedly good on release (Xin Zhao, Vladimir) and some champs are a shit pile (Urgot, Swain), and some seem fairly balanced and viable (Sona, MF), which are always debatable as some people get very skewed opinions based on how much they play as or against said champ.
That's why they frequently have a set of character adjustments for damn near every character in the list per patch.
That's why they are ALWAYS hiring new people to try to improve their infrastructure.
That's why they haven't made it against the ToS and a bannable offense to use custom skins for non-tournament games.
That's why they frequently rework items and include new items and don't charge money for some special unlock to use new items.
That's why they actually DO play their own game AND STREAM their in house games REGULARLY while interacting with their viewers.
That's why they are arranging tournaments and its now surpassing HoN in tournament play despite "everyone knowing" that HoN is "superior" because LoL doesn't have denying and lacks spectator mode and replays, which they've "had MORE than enough time to add in by now!"
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Long story short, I get pretty frustrated by all the people that think "if its free, then you shouldn't ever charge for ANYTHING, even if it IS smart business! NEVER ASK FOR MONEY YOU SELLOUTS!" They have overhead to pay for as well as a goal to make decent profit, and they aren't going to do that as a consistent online game (as opposed to a sell per box method of making money) and expect to stay in business long if they are trying to simply roll in cash. This claim is ridiculous. Do people REALLY think that the average worker at Riot (or even Blizzard) is simply wiping their ass with $100 bills? I could accept an upper CEO of something large (possssssibly Blizzard, definitely Bobby Kotick) but people make this claim every time someone sees an opportunity to actually make a living on something. I'm surprised people aren't raging about the MineCraft creator yet.
They've recreated some champs multiple times in attempts to fix them, but in a lot of situations its about perception (we've been reamed by and even won alongside multiple, MULTIPLE Eves lately. This IS A REPEAT OCCURRENCE, not some once or twice fluke. Is she the best viable character on a team? No, that's how "best in slot/role" systems turn out. But that doesn't stop her, or Urgot, or even Jax, from completely carrying a game at times. This happens to good players, this happens to bad players. This happens to all players.)
Its not like they are getting slipped loads of cash to not push this Magical Christmas Land "Make all 51ish characters harmoniously in sync with each other so that teams for tournaments can literally be picked by all hitting the random button, as all are of absolutely equal viability in every situation and circumstance and this includes team makeup" button. Sad truth is, there is a lot more to this than any of us see happen, and its easy to sit back in our arm chairs and say "the answer is so simple! All it takes is this! Fix it this way and everyone will be happy! Because if they don't agree with me, then they are out of their minds!", as the common forum mentality tends to be for any such game at any location.
No matter what they do, someone is going to claim they are doing it because they are greedy corporate whores who don't care about their game beyond the money they are allegedly rolling in.
That's why some champs are retardedly good on release (Xin Zhao, Vladimir) and some champs are a shit pile (Urgot, Swain), and some seem fairly balanced and viable (Sona, MF), which are always debatable as some people get very skewed opinions based on how much they play as or against said champ.
That's why they frequently have a set of character adjustments for damn near every character in the list per patch.
That's why they are ALWAYS hiring new people to try to improve their infrastructure.
That's why they haven't made it against the ToS and a bannable offense to use custom skins for non-tournament games.
That's why they frequently rework items and include new items and don't charge money for some special unlock to use new items.
That's why they actually DO play their own game AND STREAM their in house games REGULARLY while interacting with their viewers.
That's why they are arranging tournaments and its now surpassing HoN in tournament play despite "everyone knowing" that HoN is "superior" because LoL doesn't have denying and lacks spectator mode and replays, which they've "had MORE than enough time to add in by now!"
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Long story short, I get pretty frustrated by all the people that think "if its free, then you shouldn't ever charge for ANYTHING, even if it IS smart business! NEVER ASK FOR MONEY YOU SELLOUTS!" They have overhead to pay for as well as a goal to make decent profit, and they aren't going to do that as a consistent online game (as opposed to a sell per box method of making money) and expect to stay in business long if they are trying to simply roll in cash. This claim is ridiculous. Do people REALLY think that the average worker at Riot (or even Blizzard) is simply wiping their ass with $100 bills? I could accept an upper CEO of something large (possssssibly Blizzard, definitely Bobby Kotick) but people make this claim every time someone sees an opportunity to actually make a living on something. I'm surprised people aren't raging about the MineCraft creator yet.
They've recreated some champs multiple times in attempts to fix them, but in a lot of situations its about perception (we've been reamed by and even won alongside multiple, MULTIPLE Eves lately. This IS A REPEAT OCCURRENCE, not some once or twice fluke. Is she the best viable character on a team? No, that's how "best in slot/role" systems turn out. But that doesn't stop her, or Urgot, or even Jax, from completely carrying a game at times. This happens to good players, this happens to bad players. This happens to all players.)
Its not like they are getting slipped loads of cash to not push this Magical Christmas Land "Make all 51ish characters harmoniously in sync with each other so that teams for tournaments can literally be picked by all hitting the random button, as all are of absolutely equal viability in every situation and circumstance and this includes team makeup" button. Sad truth is, there is a lot more to this than any of us see happen, and its easy to sit back in our arm chairs and say "the answer is so simple! All it takes is this! Fix it this way and everyone will be happy! Because if they don't agree with me, then they are out of their minds!", as the common forum mentality tends to be for any such game at any location.
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