League of Legends hits 5 million peak concurrent players.

no, not that. It's just that intentionally feeding is not nearly as punishable as for example, calling someone a "noob".

The line between intentional feeding and playing poorly is one that requires a judgment call, going off of what information the tribunal reports provide. Determining if someone insulted other players during the game is a lot more concrete, since it's right there in the chat transcript.
 
Dota2 is a better game in almost every way possible than League of Legends. The only thing League has going for it is its ranking system and its hook (winning games - getting points - unlocking shit).

It has -

Worse art direction
Worse graphics
Worse sound/sound effects/limited sound clips
Worse Hero Variety
Worse Meta (which will never change)
Worse strategic options in matches (No tp supporting/ganking as long as wards are up)
Worse Competitive Scene (there are about 15 competitive heroes in League as of right now)
Worse hero balance (you can straight counter pick enemy heroes at top/mid/jungle lanes)

With that last one; Sure there are bad matchups in dota2 as well but League puts an emphasis on getting gold over levels which means a bad matchup in League is REALLY bad. A bad matchup in Dota2 can be overcome by skill/ganking/tp support with your extra levels.

But you know - congrats on 5 mil concurrent.

Wow...

I cannot disagree...but what did LoL ever do to you to make you this bitter...?
 
I think there was an interview/statistic that said only about 1% of users actually spend money.

Right. Imagine the PS4 does well, and three years from now has a 40M user install base.

Now imagine a game is a ridiculous, gigantic hit, and 50% of the total PS4 install base plays the game.

...now imagine 1% of that spends money. That will be a total of 200k paying customers. I'm not saying you can't make money that way on consoles; I'm just saying it's not an easy fit compared to platforms which have hundreds of millions of users like PC and iOS.
 
well i would find it odd if youre doing so well + doing all the right things that youre still at low elo
maybe you should work on game impact, but lets take that to the league thread

just did another ranked where I went top with Zed vs a Darius. Poor darius was constantly under 50% health and got ganked 7 times. 7 times he got ganked but they never killed me. I would always get away barely touched.

All I needed was to ulti on darius at level 6 and he'd die. So here comes my jungler. He targets malphite instead of darius. He turret dives them both. I try to ulti darius but the moment I click on ulti, malph placed himself in that spot and I ulti malph instead. I kill malph and move to finish darius. My jungler, with 400 health left, leaves me alone there, let's darius escape and the turret starts targeting me. At that point I had neither flash nor my W. The turret kills me. Fiora then comes back and gives another kill to darius... No biggie I can turn this around. Once again I put darius with 40% health. Fiora comes again. So does malphite. Fiora again targets malphite. I ulti darius but malph ulties me thus making me waste my ulti. Fiora dies to darius. I'm 1v2. Darius gets me too.

This in a game where I put a lot of pressure on darius, he couldn't engage me solo and I have 70 cs more than him at minute 10.

My mid laner lost hard vs a Lux and bot lane had a tristana with 30 cs at minute 25 and a Nunu with 1/7.

...

How is it possible that I constantly get these kind of people in every game I play on ranked?
 
Ya its not racism.

Brazilians are a serious problem in dota 2.

Its not fun to play when your teammates aren't communicating, feeding, constantly farming/not participating in team fights, and playing incorrectly (wrong build).

If only it was communication problems with Brazilians, that is the least of the problems.
 
The line between intentional feeding and playing poorly is one that requires a judgment call, going off of what information the tribunal reports provide. Determining if someone insulted other players during the game is a lot more concrete, since it's right there in the chat transcript.

when I ping them to back away and they still keep going after them only to die a certain death...

but I do make sure the tribunal knows what happens.
 
It's really weird because I honestly think League is one of the worst balanced MOBA's out there..

and I'm saying that with 2500 games played. Oh well, still play it (not nearly as much) with friends and such.
 
I don't play it anymore, but I had a lot of fun with it for at least a year. Good for them.

I will admit to being a little worried that it's going to be very hard for a game in the same genre to enjoy anything like the same success. It's like the WoW of mobas at this point.
 
They must be making a lot of money. I wish they would put more into bringing all the content in the game up to the same level. There's a lot of inconsistency in terms of champion models and art. Part of the reason why I was using the Chinese pack although they have been replacing some of the older models and arts. I just wish they were faster with it.

:(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

I'll be ready to buy her. Seeing chocolate heroes in Mobas is a rare sight so for me as a black guy, I feel obligated to support the endeavor.

If you're looking for black champions you could play Wu... *shot*
 
I tried playing LoL once.


It ended with me buying a bunch of skins for champions I don't play.
 
TF2's conversion rate is 20-30%, and apparently the industry average is 2-3%.

World of Tanks also has a similar conversion rate.

I have no clue what LoL's conversion rate is, but I'd wager its in the same neighborhood as those two games.

whatever it is, it's ridiculously high. i'm not even that good and you won't find any players at my level who don't own at least one skin.

It's really weird because I honestly think League is one of the worst balanced MOBA's out there..

and I'm saying that with 2500 games played. Oh well, still play it (not nearly as much) with friends and such.

it isn't that bad in 5v5s, but the other 3 modes are god awful. especially 3s.
 
Is Blizzard makes an amazing MOBA, people will forget League exists.

If there is one thing crazier than League fans, it's loyal Blizzard fans.
except league has a ton of newer blood, i really wonder how many of them are loyal blizzard dudes

you know, modern young blizzard fans
 
AFAIK Dota 2 has servers in Oz. And South Africa, too. Plus no restrictions to what regions you can play in, unlike LoL. Want to play on American servers? Go right ahead.

Slightly Wrong. The Korean Servers can only be played on by Koreans Citizens, due to Nexon being Nexon. Though there is nothing stopping the Korean players from playing on other servers.
 
woah woah take it easy sport
youre wrong about a lot of the game related stuff btw
its almost like you dont even play the game/follow it
:OOOOOOOOO
who woulda thought

hear hear!

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Are innocent players still getting banned by the tribunal system? Never did like the idea of possibly getting grief banned.
 
Archie said:
The second highest peak concurrent count I know of is a shooter called CrossFire which had 4 million peak concurrent back in September.[/url]
That number is for China only (which is its biggest country - but not the only country where it makes money).
 
Ok I'll bite... what else is wrong with Brazilians as a people?

Long running joke that Brazilians like mordekaiser, was actually ironic as some Philippine team used him at first world championships and destroyed a EU team with him (at that point EU was viewed as 2nd best region after NA due to CLG fanboys).
Lost the group though.

reflecting I think it is racism, we saw a similar thing in the LOL community when alex ich dissed hotshotgg about 1.5 years ago. Basically came okay in the NA community to insult Russians for 6 odd months.
 
Only 7 posts before the dota- guys insults started to pour in, pretty good for one :)

Big congrats to Riot. They've really started to add non-champion content more frequently later and their interaction with the community is as great as ever. My biggest worry is that they'll grow too large and crumble under their own weight, not too uncommon a thing to see...
 
Judging purely by twitch streams it seems like LoL is far more popular with female players than Dota 2. Sure it's anecdotal, but it does seem to point to LoL probably being more popular with females. Anyone have a solid opinion on why that would be?

Because it's more popular with everyone.
 
Good on riot, i hope they continue to be successful.

Personally i don't care for the game, the community is full of childish assholes, or at least every game i have played i have ran into childish assholes which immediately put a bad taste in my mouth. That and i didn't find it all that fun, i never saw the appeal back in SC/WC3 (in the UMS/Custom "Dota" or "moba" )and i still don't see the appeal now.
 
The false positive rate is apparently very low.

Eh...they shouldn't be letting players ban each other in the first place in a game you can spend money on. That shit just shouldn't be legal. If I put money down I don't want there to be ANY chance I could get banned because someone feels I was "feeding" or anything like that.

I need links to LoL "champion" skins with cleavage for " research purposes".
I use this.

http://lolskinviewer.com/#Thresh
 
You need a lot of reports to show up in the tribunal.

I'm not very good at the game, that probably wouldn't take very long to get a lot of "feeding" whiners. I stopped playing for the most part when this system was revealed to be as broken as it was because I bought heroes/skins and I'm not going to put that on the line.
 
Hey, Riot, are we ever gonna see your internal champion selection statistics? You sure seem a lot happier to talk about players rather than who they're playing.
 
I'm not very good at the game, that probably wouldn't take very long to get a lot of "feeding" whiners. I stopped playing for the most part when this system was revealed to be as broken as it was because I bought heroes/skins and I'm not going to put that on the line.
I don't think you should be so worried. You won't get banned for not being good at the game.

On a more unrelated note, all permanent bans are controlled by riot before they happen.
 
I don't really trust this number, to be honest. It seems insane to me and it makes for good marketing.
 
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