On February 11 2016 06:37 ticklishmusic wrote: but it's really riot's fault that it dropped by not providing any meaningful support for the game mode and letting it go into a death spiral.
So true. How can you expect the players to care when you won't care yourself? Everytime they can, they shove Poro King/All-For-One/URF down our throats, they could have done more for Dominion.
You have an odd definition of "shoving [___] down our throats". It sounds like a lot of stuff gets shoved down your throat pretty regularly, if all you mean is that someone is providing you optional access to them. If you know what I mean.
Shove down throat is wrong. It just generally feels like Riot has been more excited talking about those modes over Dominion. All I remember hearing for Dominion is one or two item updates over the 4 years its been live (I'm sure there is more but I never followed Dominion).
And there's a pretty good reason why: those modes were fun and refreshed people's enjoyment of League in the two or so weeks they were live. By comparison, Dominion was objectively shitty, as measured by the fact that no one played it. Sure, it did have some fans, as all objectively shitty things do. Some people liked vanilla Starcraft over Brood War, too.
Dominion stopped being popular long before Riot stopped supporting it. I agree that Riot's not supporting Dominion didn't help. But people made it clear very early on that Dominion could not and did not hold their interest. At this point, a 5% improvement in the Summoner's Rift experience will mean a lot more to a lot more people than even a 50% improvement in the Dominion experience.
Today's announcement isn't sad or tragic or depressing. It's overdue.
On February 11 2016 08:41 kongoline wrote: so whats general consensus over new champion select, i just played my first game and the fact i can choose my role is great but everything else seems like a downgrade, harder to see more confusing and seems like a chore to sit thought entire champion select
the whole interface is crap and needs to be redesigned or reverted
On February 11 2016 08:41 kongoline wrote: so whats general consensus over new champion select, i just played my first game and the fact i can choose my role is great but everything else seems like a downgrade, harder to see more confusing and seems like a chore to sit thought entire champion select
TL;DR of an exchange: "Yeah, this new champ select sucks. The way they moved stuff around and changed box sizes actually reduces "clarity" as they say and they even shoved the chat box in a corner while saying it's about communicating. - I don't get why you guys complain. It's so cool and great! Everything's super slick and shiny! - Well. Do you mean "great" from a graphical or a functional viewpoint? :> - Graphical of course, I don't care about the rest. Wow it's so pretty!"
(She's the one who only posts about new skins to comment on whether she finds them pretty or not and will buy them or not, so it's kinda cliched, but hey, she's representative of a good portion of the playerbase too. )
On February 11 2016 08:45 dsyxelic wrote: now that they cut the wait time a lot more I like it alot.
only wish they would make it so first 3 picks got to ban since going first sucks (counter pick).
or just add more bans l0l
Everyone should have one ban I feel.
i think that everyone should be able to vote for 3 champs, and the top 5 vote gainers are banned. if eveyrone votes the same three than first pick gets 2 more bans.
unless they actually want to improve Pick/ban and intersperse the bans with the picks.
Problem is riot want competetive to have same ban system as soloq. There are a lot of better alternatives to what we have now. But honestly I don't want bans inbetween picks for soloq. It already takes wayyyy too long to actually get a game. I am only d1 and already spending half of my game time in queue+select if not more.
On February 11 2016 09:56 nafta wrote: Problem is riot want competetive to have same ban system as soloq.
when i get to queue up as coach and direct pick bans instead of the players in the match then it'll be the same. -.- Riot really has a chance to adjust the queue toward improvement when solo queue gets implemented finally.
On February 11 2016 08:41 kongoline wrote: so whats general consensus over new champion select, i just played my first game and the fact i can choose my role is great but everything else seems like a downgrade, harder to see more confusing and seems like a chore to sit thought entire champion select
Only thing I dislike is bans. Feels bad for the people that pick early that have to lobby for bans to avoid hard counters.
I mean, considering how bad professional pick/ban is currently with simple front loaded bans I can't imagine the scene with interwoven pick/ban, except more clown fiestas.
So is the overall consensus that Duskblade is OPieOP and if you aren't playing an AD melee assassin, you're doing it wrong?
It certainly seems that way from the number of games (and people building it first) I've played. Zed, Talon, Riven, Kha, and Fiora have built it first and proceeded to dumpster their lane or jungle opponent once it was finished... And then proceed to dumpster the rest of the team, because the passive resets.
On February 11 2016 12:20 Kinie wrote: So is the overall consensus that Duskblade is OPieOP and if you aren't playing an AD melee assassin, you're doing it wrong?
It certainly seems that way from the number of games (and people building it first) I've played. Zed, Talon, Riven, Kha, and Fiora have built it first and proceeded to dumpster their lane or jungle opponent once it was finished... And then proceed to dumpster the rest of the team, because the passive resets.
it only kinda resets. it only resets if it was useless.
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