Last time I played with GAF it descended into arguments and insults lol
As a rule: if you're not playing with your actual close friends, you only communicate with your team via pings and things like "Thanks", "GJ" and "mia".
Last time I played with GAF it descended into arguments and insults lol
When you make a great game and give it outstanding support for more than 5 years it pays off.
It's one of the best multiplayer games ever. It's surprising in a very good way that a multiplayer game with actual depth is basically the biggest game in the world. Too bad the community is filled with the worst kind of trash people, but that's hardly the game's fault.
I hope the rumored fighting game is real. Scammy Capcom tried forcing a F2P model into their 60$ uncompleted demo but it failed miserably, fortunately. The market for a true F2P fighter is still there, if they release it soon they'll take it forever.
The term "solo mid" predates LoL.I mean, their team name is based on LoL meta
They know that the system isn't prefect. We'll probably get a large scale rework after the new client is released.
I think what sucks about runes, mastery and summoner spells is they're locked with levels so you have to level up to get access to all of them, ideally you are pitted against same level players, but often they're either smurfs or teaming up with their higher level friends and you're at disadvantage.
But once you are lvl 30? the idea of customizing some stat bonus to accommodate my playstyle is pretty good.
Who are these people? What country are they mainly based in? What forums do they use? How on earth do I know almost nothing about a game 100 million people play?
I read Neogaf and Eurogamer every single day and yet I couldn't name a single LoL character. Couldn't recognise a screenshot. That's amazing to me. Is it it's own little bubble or am I just selectively blind?
I am glad I quit the game this year. Toxic community. Toxic patches. Toxic LCS.
People just stay with this game because it's like heroin. Once you are in this game you cannot play anything else. Also this game runs on toasters so of course with it's addicted effect it's the most played game. Doesn't cost anything, runs on anything and has goals and cool skins. And also so many waifus.
It's rare that I see something positive said about LoL in communites. Game was really fun from 2009 to 2014, 2015 was a shit year, 2016 is okaish.
I read Neogaf and Eurogamer every single day and yet I couldn't name a single LoL character. Couldn't recognise a screenshot. That's amazing to me. Is it it's own little bubble or am I just selectively blind?
Probably 70 million of those are in Asia, I would guess. Don't quote me on that.Who are these people? What country are they mainly based in? What forums do they use? How on earth do I know almost nothing about a game 100 million people play?
I read Neogaf and Eurogamer every single day and yet I couldn't name a single LoL character. Couldn't recognise a screenshot. That's amazing to me. Is it it's own little bubble or am I just selectively blind?
Gaf has it's own Community Thread on the game, pretty active, like many games with community threads, you will miss discussion of it if you never swing by the community subforum.
That's a shame, considering the extent to which they nickel & dime their players and how Riot shares, relatively, almost none of the wealth with professional players. Also, Dota is the objectively better game by nearly every imaginable metric.
Ah. I simply don't use the community forums, so that would explain it. I come here for news and discussions on news, not to make friends or whatnot.
It doesn't create many news headlines, though, huh? I just searched thread titles and it's only had a couple all year. That's amazing for a game with 100m people playing it.
fair enough. I mean as someone who doesn't follow games like Minecraft, Warcraft, Pokemon etc you still get a sense that they're a big deal. I just don't see this game anywhere but I can definitely accept I'm wrong.
I was really just fascinated that something can get that big without being on console or steam best seller or having a billion tie in products being shoved down your throat. It's impressive.
So is this the most popular video game of all time? That seems kind of hard to beat, even for free to play mobile games
It doesn't create many news headlines, though, huh? I just searched thread titles and it's only had a couple all year. That's amazing for a game with 100m people playing it.
DOTA 2 has Slark, he's the cutest.For example and comparison- Dota 2 only has ONE warrior waifu. Just ONE (Legion Commander)!!!
DOTA 2 has Slark, he's the cutest.
Well that just reinforces my original point Riot doesn't add any 'quality of life' content (besides new heroes, skins, and reworked heroes). So there's little reason to post a thread because there's no notable feature to mention
Maybe loot boxes? I guess that was a feature but not something that enriched the game for me. But LoL gaf seems to love the new boxes.
Oh right they are working on the new Nexus gamemode but I've yet to be able to play since its only offered during short windows. gg Riot
Slark pickers are Genji pickers. Scum!DOTA 2 has Slark, he's the cutest.
Teemo makes everything better, not surprise people play LoL. My favorite multiplayer gameglad it become a behemoth cause it means more Teemo skins for everyone to enjoy.
All time ? no. Arcade games at their peak were ridiculously crazy. They raked in billions of dollars but its hard to gauge their popularity in third world countries since there weren't proper metrics for them. And even games like Tetris which is on like a million devices , is hard to gauge actual numbers.
Currently it might be based on User activity. Some mobile games might have more users but they surely dont have this level of activity.
More like anything posted would be locked and promptly shunted to community? Does Dota get patchnote threads here? Do hero releases get much time on the front page? GAF is a VERY core centric community, and really does a good effort to shun the hell out of anything out of that model (f2p, mobile, mmo, much of PC gaming...).
There are a few factors.Who are these people? What country are they mainly based in? What forums do they use? How on earth do I know almost nothing about a game 100 million people play?
I read Neogaf and Eurogamer every single day and yet I couldn't name a single LoL character. Couldn't recognise a screenshot. That's amazing to me. Is it it's own little bubble or am I just selectively blind?
You're right. He also forgot about the heroine with best curves.Did that poster you quoted forget about the purest of waifus PA and TA. Maybe even CM she is total virgin bait.
Also tru slark is 2qt.
https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/c/c4/Slark_attack_12.mp3Slark pickers are Genji pickers. Scum!
More like anything posted would be locked and promptly shunted to community? Does Dota get patchnote threads here? Do hero releases get much time on the front page? GAF is a VERY core centric community, and really does a good effort to shun the hell out of anything out of that model (f2p, mobile, mmo, much of PC gaming...).
It has by far the most waifus for any game. One day game devs will realize this is an essential ingredient to the game. I literally joined that game due to the waifus and maybe Ekko (cause he's afro american which is super rare in MOBAs sadly)
For example and comparison- Dota 2 only has ONE warrior waifu. Just ONE (Legion Commander)!!! Heroes of the Storm only has two waifus (Sonya & Johanna). Smite has a small handful of female tank waifu (but they have a decent number tho now to think of it with the new Terra hero)
Most MOBA only let waifu be caster and Agility heroes. Rarely do they empower women to be warriors. kinda narrow minded if you ask me. LoL has made great strides in this area
pokemon go had over 21 million active daily users in US alone. not sure bout now.
I don't recall that being the case since I started (which was after Ekko was added)
LoL usually gets new patches weekly, so it would be tiring to have a new patch notes thread every week, specially since most weekly updates just do minor balancing.
League has more players than Candy Crush, makes more money than Call of Duty, and gets tens of millions of viewers through E-sports.It's amazing to me that a game can have 100m players and yet have no mainstream appeal. Not a knock against the game (I'm sure they don't care) but it just seems like an odd phenomenon that something that big can still be so niche.
LMAO
To be clear, if you want League threads for new heroes or other major new additions in Gaming, by all means.More like anything posted would be locked and promptly shunted to community? Does Dota get patchnote threads here? Do hero releases get much time on the front page? GAF is a VERY core centric community, and really does a good effort to shun the hell out of anything out of that model (f2p, mobile, mmo, much of PC gaming...).
You'd think for having good a game that large they could afford slightly larger prize pools.
To be clear, if you want League threads for new heroes or other major new additions in Gaming, by all means.
I'm not mad about it. I just notice that basically 'legacy' game thread tend to get locked, so I made an assumption. Thanks for the clarification.
It probably wouldn't be a terrible idea to have threads for character launches and the major patches they make post Worlds.
Outside your bubble.I... don't actually know anyone who plays this... where are all these people?
Last time I played with GAF it descended into arguments and insults lol
Why are people in this thread talking about esports?
Who are these people? What country are they mainly based in? What forums do they use? How on earth do I know almost nothing about a game 100 million people play?
I read Neogaf and Eurogamer every single day and yet I couldn't name a single LoL character. Couldn't recognise a screenshot. That's amazing to me. Is it it's own little bubble or am I just selectively blind?
TBF this happened to me with both LoL and Dota 2. Although in Dota 2 it was more in-game banter and flaming while the LoL crowd was full on audio chat insults and slurs.
That was a few years ago tho. Probably not even the same people playing currently.
The LoL community is notoriously toxic. Every online game has toxic players to some degree, but LoL is just sort of known for it. I am a big fan of LoL though, and enjoy watching the NALCS, to which I've watched nearly every NALCS game since 2012When people bring up LoL they like to pretend toxicity is a problem exclusive to it and now, you know, rampant in ALL popular competitive multiplayer games.
all my little nephews play LoL.
i once went to their house and they had this setup upstairs where it was 6 computers in two rows back to back, pretty sick setup. they were having a lot of fun, no anger or anything that you might think of for everyone who thinks that younger people who play these games are full of rage and immaturity.
i watched a little bit over their shoulders and something cool happened and i asked him if he could show me that in a replay after the game, i wanted to see it again
blank faces from all of them like they had never heard of replays in a competitive esports game haha. just messing with them a little bit.
so yea i think if you don't know many high schoolers or college kids those are most of the people playing LoL i'd say. just watch the LCS streams and look for who's in the crowd. do you have regular contact with anyone in that cohort? if not then there's your answer for why you don't know anyone who plays LoL.