League of Legends Topples World of Warcraft as Most Played PC Game
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I never had this sort of problems with Lol, HoN, and Dota.ASnogarD said:
Story time.
My friends made me play Lol (Lol was my first Moba) fist thing i did was, go to the forums, look for guides.
I read at least 3.
"Ok, this game sounds neat and has a nice gameplay." I thought.
I played some matches, and then bought my first champion, Annie.
"Ok" I thought to myself "now i need to know how i play her!"
That's when i found Solomid.net (That's why i'm a TSM fan today)
That's ok, i read a guide about her.
I play her the way i should and have fun, no one get's mad with me. That's nice!
Of course there will always be the douchbag, or people will get mad at you when you get outplayed, but that's normal, and i don't give a damn about these situations.
The problem here is that Lol, is a free game, Most people, just want to play, they don't want to GET better at the game, they are the casual gamer, get in, have 1-2 matches, get out.
Most people get angry at those people, other are just idiots or kids that get angry at anything.
After Lol, i played Dota and HoN a little. You can guess what i did before playing the games.
I'm not saying that you did that, and people got angry with you because of that.
I'm just saying a fact.
Most people on FREE games don't give a damn about the gameplay, or about trying to get better, etc. They just want to play the game and have some fun.
Reporting in LoL doesn't work like that. Reports don't instantly do anything. You go up for peer review, and then if another player says you did something to get banned or whatever punishment for, then the report goes to the staff at Riot to look over before anything happens. You won't see any punishment until several hours after.Torrasque said:
Now, if you're in a lobby for a game and quit(, the game adds a wait timer on you until' you can join a new game to prevent people from trolling by joining and quitting at the last second(queue times can be long at higher ELO). If you disconnect from the lobby, the game will auto-select your champion and you can still get into the game, though it might screw your team over. Also, if you go AFK in the middle of the game, the game itself may temporarily ban you. Again, this is to prevent trolls.
*edit* Oh yeah, and if the game ended before he tried to reconnect, he would've gottena temporary ban for that too. Again, it weeds out trolls.
"Cole notes that Diablo III "is still doing quite well and may surpass World of Warcraft in usage over the next year."
Yeah, right. Every huge gamenerd I know stopped playing within weeks.
(Got Special Editon game AND Strategy guide on day one, camped out at the store for NOTHING)
Yeah, right. Every huge gamenerd I know stopped playing within weeks.
(Got Special Editon game AND Strategy guide on day one, camped out at the store for NOTHING)
I am not getting casual players... I have been on LoL for quiet a while, got a pack of champions, spent money on RP. It was much nicer when I started, the community as a whole was more friendly but for some reason it had degraded sharply in my experience, perhaps due to more publicity, perhaps due to some wanting to play DOTA2 but its not out yet ?carnege4 said:
I do know that I am meeting some very unfriendly players more these days than not.
4 out of 4 games last night, ragers trolls leavers whiners...3 out 3 today, a whiner ( claimed a kill was stolen, went on a QQ binge )then a rager ( didnt gank till late then suddenly went for ganks and got counter ganked, raged at me for the rest of the game ) , finally a AFK'er ( a Lee Sin , died once at level 3 AFK since... but we won because 3 of the enemy went AFK after trying beat us for 20 min , then the rest surrendered).
I dont mind losing, I just hate being raged on or players raging on others... its pointless and it doesnt help at all, just the opposite actually. I lose all interest in the match when a rager starts, then I am sort of meh in fights. Ignore doesnt help because when you want to ignore its because a rager has started... you know its a messed up match , even if you ignore.
Interesting that a DotA clone, particularly one as poorly done as LoL, is so popular. From what I played of it, it seemed to have no appeal to public gamers at all due to the imbalanced permanent skill tree (the old 'unlock blink, cannot be beaten by teams that haven't yet' trick).
I tried LoL but couldn't get into it. The community was very rude to me and, not that I haven't played RTSs before but it was rediculous how degrading the community was when I was learning. I didn't even know what hero to be so I picked one I found visually appealing but apparently it was not the right one. I don't know. I suppose I'll stick to SC2 and Civ.
Oh my. I've been playing that game feverishly for the past few months. Even dropped some coin to get some nice champions. I'm a statistic! AHHHHH! I'm actually sort of happy I'm playing a popular game that I also happen to like. Having been in plenty of real life losing teams with real life sore losers. Braggarts. And other such dreggs I find league of legends to be small potatoes. It's almost fun how it's really no different than other team game in that respect.
Now that it's the most played MMO(ish) game ever knocking World of Warcraft off it's throne of all things. That of course means that means the game should start exploding with content. Riot? How about it? New map for PVP? I think yes. The magma chamber. It wants a second chance. It would have told you herself but she's very shy. You gave her up for dominion I hear. Broke her heart it did.
Now that it's the most played MMO(ish) game ever knocking World of Warcraft off it's throne of all things. That of course means that means the game should start exploding with content. Riot? How about it? New map for PVP? I think yes. The magma chamber. It wants a second chance. It would have told you herself but she's very shy. You gave her up for dominion I hear. Broke her heart it did.
Just wanted to say I already read this but just now when I got back on I thought it said League of Legend Topless...
WoW is basically free to play as well (up to a certain point). And I'm pretty sure WoW has private servers as well, which are not accounted for in this (but I'm pretty sure that's reasonable).SecretNegative said:
Oh, I played it as well. In fact, I've been playing it for years, with breaks every now and then...still, it somewhat surprised me. It's notorious for a lot of bad things, but I still thought it had more of a niche audience. Then again, I've only ever been able to play MapleStory Europe...Charli said:
Ah you have been fortunate then.Bloodstain said:
Before MS Europe existed the 'Global' (Now North America only) was for everyone who wasn't playing in Korea and Singapore/Malaysia, it seems all the dregs got mixed into that pot and formed the douche-bag clan.
I played Europe a little bit but it was lagging behind Global for a very long time when I did so I didn't make the transition permanent, back when getting to level 60 was an impressive feat it would have been extremely annoying to loose my character and start over.
My account on Global is still valid and I could pick it up again if I wanted but... egh. No.
I'm past that. Too many people with artificially extended E-Penises.
There's alot of players on Maple South East Asia, Maple Korea and Japan, and Maple US.
Europe... well I haven't been on it since launch but it didn't blow me away with the amount of people on it.
It's a charming game it's just, covered in so much crap.
Glad to see the free to play games doing so well on the list. Looks like I'm not the only person who decided they want to get away from paying to play a game every month even if you only played a few hour each month.
More exciting was that World of Tanks made the list. I've been having a lot of fun playing the game and the game play has been good enough that I don't mind paying for some extra stuff in the game. It just seems better to plan out when I want to buy the extras instead of having to deal with a monthly bill for the game after paying a good deal for a copy of the game in the first place.
Hopefully this moves the market even harder to the free to play model instead of the monthly bill model.
More exciting was that World of Tanks made the list. I've been having a lot of fun playing the game and the game play has been good enough that I don't mind paying for some extra stuff in the game. It just seems better to plan out when I want to buy the extras instead of having to deal with a monthly bill for the game after paying a good deal for a copy of the game in the first place.
Hopefully this moves the market even harder to the free to play model instead of the monthly bill model.