Sounds like until players stop giving them buckets of money, they can keep doing whatever they’re doing.
And to the younger audience, this is from the first Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Modern Warfare 2
Give me dedicated servers, or give me death!
Getting rid of the client and merging it into the game would be a start. The issue is League is toxic by design, and it gets worse because the developers keep trying to milk it for more money every year. Add to that the fact that its got spaghetti code like no tomorrow.
League has so many problems that it would be better for Riot to just develop a whole new game with all the fixes built in than for them to keep using duct tape on the current one.
I still contend the old “Adobe Air” client was more usable and organized than anything that came after…
In the last year that I played it, they added the Riot Launcher, which was nothing but a massive PLAY button that really only functioned to launch the other ‘new’ client. It was mind-boggling how dumb it was…
The new client was better until Alpha Patch 5
It was never designed to carry as much bloat as they’ve put into it since
Those were the days
they added the Riot Launcher, which was nothing but a massive PLAY button that really only functioned to launch the other ‘new’ client
Don’t forget that it also got rid of the individual animated splash pages and theme music that used to play for every champ release and event (eg. Worlds). Used to be so hype.
I always see people say it’s got spaghetti code but I’ve never seen much about it.
Do you have a source?
There was a devblog a while back a developer talked about how much technical debt the game has because its coded in LUA, like the second oldest programming language known to man, and modifying literally any of it will break other parts of it because everything was built on top of the old stuff. Basically, the code has never been refactored.
That’s not really what that blog post is talking about. Lua isn’t actually particularly old as far as programming languages go and one of the most commonly used scripting languages in game development, due to it’s easy embeddability. And it’s a perfectly fine language in that regard.
Their problem is that they built their own visual scripting language on top of Lua called BlockBuilder. And that comes with quite a bit of overhead, since the way they’re doing it needs a number of additional heavy operations. And Lua is a full blown programming language that comes with a lot of functionality that they don’t need for that use case, but still need to account for.
So the complaint is, that they used Lua instead of using a simpler and constrained language
I love Arcane, but these half-baked video game tie-ins to movies and tv series are usually awful, so I haven’t touched this.
I remember playing that game many years ago when I got Tristana for free for following them on Facebook. She was the only hero I ever played and I only ever bought items that increased her attack speed. I lost interest somewhere around the release of I think it was called Dominion. Does that mode still exist?
Dominion is dead, same with twisted treeline and alternative gamemodes are on life support.
They still follow the seasonal tradition of revamping jungle for shits&giggles and item builds have been severely restricted in the name of build diversity, yeah go figure that one out.
So even if I came back I couldn’t build a gatling cannon Tristana?
Even more reason to never return
I still have my physical copy of the game. Never plan on playing ever again since it changed after the China $.
I think had to download it over a day and a half
Season
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213I mean they still have a huge amount of players so this seems pretty empty really.
League hasn’t really been good since season 4. Maybe 3.
That said, League can go fuck itself for swapping the cosmetic I paid for with Chinese government propaganda. I won’t touch that shit with an 11ft pole. Any company who will manipulate audiences like that is straight evil, let alone charging me for shit and taking it away after.
what did riot do about chinese propaganda?
They made all the skins and splash arts the same across every region and since the rest of the world has no backbone, the Chinese versions took over. Groovy Zilean stopped being a magnificent psychedelic hippy grandpa and became a cranked out meth head.
I’ve played since S2 and am currently Emerald on my main (top lane). I agree that S13 didn’t feel super great but we have the item rework (the undo lol) and the map changes so I’m hyped currently. Hopefully it shakes out well.
