League of Legends Muscles Past World of Warcraft
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I have several problems with LoL.
First off, as in DotA, you have to have played with all champions in order to counter them, but in LoL you don't get to do so. You get several a week. If you don't buy any champion you'll need several months to experience every champion. Which is a problem when you get decimated by a champion you don't know in almost every match in weeks one or two.
Second, first game I played I was the best player on the team. It was a spectacular loss. DotA players usually have at least basic understanding of the game. Even if they're bad, they're never as bad as a first-time player. Solo queue in LoL is terrible. http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20111118
Third, and this is a personal opinion, it just feels more sluggish than DotA. Kills have less impact, last hitting is more important, but denying is impossible, barracks grow back, towers don't target heroes as readily, so tower diving at early levels is not as risky. Maybe it's the fact I've grown accustomed to DotA. I do like that there is more than one map.
First off, as in DotA, you have to have played with all champions in order to counter them, but in LoL you don't get to do so. You get several a week. If you don't buy any champion you'll need several months to experience every champion. Which is a problem when you get decimated by a champion you don't know in almost every match in weeks one or two.
Second, first game I played I was the best player on the team. It was a spectacular loss. DotA players usually have at least basic understanding of the game. Even if they're bad, they're never as bad as a first-time player. Solo queue in LoL is terrible. http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20111118
Third, and this is a personal opinion, it just feels more sluggish than DotA. Kills have less impact, last hitting is more important, but denying is impossible, barracks grow back, towers don't target heroes as readily, so tower diving at early levels is not as risky. Maybe it's the fact I've grown accustomed to DotA. I do like that there is more than one map.
ionveau said:
You haven't given a single counter-argument. All I hear is "A FREE TO PAY GAME IS RECOGNIZED AS AN E-SPORT AND IT MAKES ME MAAAD".
In competitive play, Ranked games and Tournaments, runes, leveling and everything that makes your blood boil and taste copper isn't an issue. At all.
Apple, meet Orange?Kroxile said:
They are very different games, and WoW has all 10 million plus people paying $15 a month while LoL has maybe 1/3 of the people paying money, 1/2 at best. As other have mentioned, it's not surprising that a Free to Play game has a larger number of active accounts as WoW, but what matters is how much money the company makes off the game.
There's nothing to compare. LoL has already been tested against HoN which is, from a gameplay perspective, a copy-paste of DotA(2). HoN has a superior infrastructure, but LoL was designed from the ground up to appeal to a broader audience than the "traditional" MOBA games in terms of mechanics, the success of which is made clear in this very article.Evil Alpaca said:
Those who preferred LoL over HoN will prefer LoL over Dota2. They may feel a slight dent in their userbase, while HoN is REALLY going to struggle with this one.
As a LoL player I'dd be the first to ay that the community is no better then a CoD game...
But I played HoN for a while and... well... I wouldn't be suprised if HoN was shown to have the worst userbase in the world...
I was in a match where first blood wasn't till 10 mins in, a person got ganked, their entire team then started raging at them, spammed the chat with "FUKIN UNISTAL HON!" and then refused to leave the base for the rest of the match, even though we'd almost won.
And something like this happened every match.
At least in LoL theres a 1/3 or so chance to be matched with a good team.
And at least in LoL there are AI... newbies need to train on AI, HoN doesn't have AI and you can't create your own match till level 5.
But I played HoN for a while and... well... I wouldn't be suprised if HoN was shown to have the worst userbase in the world...
I was in a match where first blood wasn't till 10 mins in, a person got ganked, their entire team then started raging at them, spammed the chat with "FUKIN UNISTAL HON!" and then refused to leave the base for the rest of the match, even though we'd almost won.
And something like this happened every match.
At least in LoL theres a 1/3 or so chance to be matched with a good team.
And at least in LoL there are AI... newbies need to train on AI, HoN doesn't have AI and you can't create your own match till level 5.
I can't fucking believe that a game finally took down WoW, and it's another god damn medieval fantasy game. I'll go cry under a fort of Terry Pratchett books now.
I've never had an interest in this game's gameplay, but it's interesting to see it become so popular.
