[Patch 3.12] (j/k) Jinx General Discussion - Page 103

On October 09 2013 04:53 jcarlsoniv wrote:


Don't be silly Roffles. We're talking about realistic scenarios here.

On October 09 2013 04:55 wei2coolman wrote:

So they release PR statement about how toxic % health damage is to the game, then next champion does %health damage?
Oh wa-

On October 09 2013 04:55 wei2coolman wrote:

So they release PR statement about how toxic % health damage is to the game, then next champion does %health damage?
Oh wa-

On October 09 2013 04:40 wei2coolman wrote:
Riot caved, hosting the 5x vs 5y aram games is no longer a bannable offense. Time to polish my spear dodging skills.

When you buy a champion, and you're waiting for that purchase to process--the difference between 1 second and 2 seconds is nothing. Who cares?

On October 09 2013 04:56 UniversalSnip wrote:


That's what I call interface design.

On October 09 2013 04:56 Sermokala wrote:

It was never banable and they said that they didn't overtly bless it beacuse they didn't know if it would cuase damage to the client peoples computers or their servers. I guess if they find out that it does they'll make it a banable offence.

On October 09 2013 04:56 UniversalSnip wrote:


That's what I call interface design.

Also of note. So many design decisions that would be bad regardless of whether bugs or latency were involved: examples include the way accept deny game readying locks out the entire client whether you press anything or not, the way desire to monetize keeps us from being able to edit rune pages in champ select, etc.

On October 09 2013 05:03 red_ wrote:


They also gloss over how their front end client being on Abode AIr has painted them into a corner regarding other functionality that people want(ed). Spectator client taking as long as it did to come out is almost certainly related, as well as the replay system(I know it's apparently ready and limited by bandwidth issues now, but it wasn't even ready until earlier this year).

On October 09 2013 05:02 wei2coolman wrote:

It was heavily implied cuz it violated ToS, and Riot was like "uhhh, don't host it plox". Can't wait to get off work and play 5v5 mirror ARAM all day.

On October 09 2013 05:08 turdburgler wrote:
maybe it mines bitcoins.

On October 09 2013 05:06 wei2coolman wrote:

It's a resource issue, they make more money selling champs/skins, than they do improving small tidbits of Adobe Air.

On October 09 2013 05:22 red_ wrote:


Or at least it seems so.

We're now years into the game's life, and they had said early on after launch that unfortunately moving to a different code base would probably take years of work. They could now be seeing the benefits of that labor, and you can't really know if they'd be making more money for having done it. Would they have missed that precious explosion of popularity as DotA2 crawled along in closed beta and HoN wallowed in shit? Literally no way of knowing the answer to that(and other) questions.

The thing is, I'm not offended that they do what is best for their bottom line, but I do get a little annoyed when they make up shit to try and pretend they aren't behaving as such primarily for financial reasons. This goes for far more than just this conversation about the front end client as well.

On October 09 2013 04:55 Fusilero wrote:

Don't worry they learnt their lessons from vlad and won't ever make a top with infinite sustain again.

On October 09 2013 05:23 wei2coolman wrote:

Yeah I agree, but do you really expect them to come out and say "WE WANTZ UR MONEYZ. NOT BETTER FRONT END CLIENT EXPERIENCE!"

On October 09 2013 05:27 xes wrote:
Its way way way way way way way easier to introduce new, independent features than it is to fix broken infrastructure.

I'd be willing to bet that Riot actually has more developers assigned to client/systems than champion coding.

Fixing things that were built broken to begin with because they were developed all at once to work as soon as possible is just an impossible hell hole that everyone who's been involved in the new "agile" paradigm has forgotten about.