On October 07 2012 10:35 Craton wrote: I think Riot's no LAN mode is that they just never thought they'd need it and might not even know how to implement it, although it doesn't strike me as that hard the way things are set up (basically you'd bring a server with you to function as the "LAN" and reconfigure things to point to it over the normal TR).
But I dunno. I don't know that you really make your plans for "well, we expect a catastrophic loss of Internet half a dozen times today."
That would be called a "contingency plan", Business 101
Rape victim should've had a gun on her. Contingency plan, obviously.
On October 07 2012 10:33 Kavas wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but Blizzard's excuse for no LAN is to prevent their game from being pirated (or something). What excuse does Riot have considering the game is supposed to be FREE?
why would you need LAN for an online only game?
AHAHAHAH
Shows how much game developers have already warped our brains. I have no hope for the future.
Oh come on. LoL isn't a classic LAN game. It's pretty much an MMO. Having LAN as a standard feature makes no sense.
are you trolling, if your serious dude you need to stop.
What? I'm not. From a business standpoint, LoL is pretty much an MMO.
Uh, you are aware that LoL spawned from DotA, which was played on WC3, which had LAN?
On October 07 2012 10:35 Craton wrote: I think Riot's no LAN mode is that they just never thought they'd need it and might not even know how to implement it, although it doesn't strike me as that hard the way things are set up (basically you'd bring a server with you to function as the "LAN" and reconfigure things to point to it over the normal TR).
But I dunno. I don't know that you really make your plans for "well, we expect a catastrophic loss of Internet half a dozen times today."
That would be called a "contingency plan", Business 101
Rape victim should've had a gun on her. Contingency plan, obviously.
On October 07 2012 10:33 Kavas wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but Blizzard's excuse for no LAN is to prevent their game from being pirated (or something). What excuse does Riot have considering the game is supposed to be FREE?
why would you need LAN for an online only game?
AHAHAHAH
Shows how much game developers have already warped our brains. I have no hope for the future.
Oh come on. LoL isn't a classic LAN game. It's pretty much an MMO. Having LAN as a standard feature makes no sense.
It makes sense when Riot are trying to make pushes for LoL being the biggest ESPORT. They're trowing in a multi-million dollar prize pool but can't get insurance in basic features of competitive games that allow them to run without these kinds of delays. Sure, LAN may never be used by people who don't play competitively, but that's no excuse (besides, I'd play LAN with friends when we're on vacation and have to deal with mountain internet).
On October 07 2012 10:33 Kavas wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but Blizzard's excuse for no LAN is to prevent their game from being pirated (or something). What excuse does Riot have considering the game is supposed to be FREE?
why would you need LAN for an online only game?
AHAHAHAH
Shows how much game developers have already warped our brains. I have no hope for the future.
Oh come on. LoL isn't a classic LAN game. It's pretty much an MMO. Having LAN as a standard feature makes no sense.
are you trolling, if your serious dude you need to stop.
What? I'm not. From a business standpoint, LoL is pretty much an MMO.
Wtf,
LoL's business model relies on your playing on their servers and paying for skins/champs. So it's pretty much like an f2p MMO. If you play on LAN you can hack champs/skins etc, which invalidates their business model.
On October 07 2012 10:33 Kavas wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but Blizzard's excuse for no LAN is to prevent their game from being pirated (or something). What excuse does Riot have considering the game is supposed to be FREE?
why would you need LAN for an online only game?
AHAHAHAH
Shows how much game developers have already warped our brains. I have no hope for the future.
Oh come on. LoL isn't a classic LAN game. It's pretty much an MMO. Having LAN as a standard feature makes no sense.
But it makes sense to have LAN for their own usage, for example whe they are hosting WC.
Shure, but I'm talking about LAN as a standard feature for everybody.
Only the skin/runes part are MMO.
But the crux of the game is 5v5 or 3v3 that ends in around 30 minutes. It is just like your old usual RTS like WC3/CnC/AoE. It is not one continuous long game spanning hundreds of hours....
On October 07 2012 10:33 Kavas wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but Blizzard's excuse for no LAN is to prevent their game from being pirated (or something). What excuse does Riot have considering the game is supposed to be FREE?
why would you need LAN for an online only game?
AHAHAHAH
Shows how much game developers have already warped our brains. I have no hope for the future.
Oh come on. LoL isn't a classic LAN game. It's pretty much an MMO. Having LAN as a standard feature makes no sense.
are you trolling, if your serious dude you need to stop.
What? I'm not. From a business standpoint, LoL is pretty much an MMO.
Uh, you are aware that LoL spawned from DotA, which was played on WC3, which had LAN?
this has got too f-ing far. This set started almost 7 hours ago, were WAY behind on schedule now. I mean come on riot, THIS IS A F-ING EMERGENCY. Let these guys finish their tournament and have no other people play league of legends for a bit.
On October 07 2012 10:35 Craton wrote: I think Riot's no LAN mode is that they just never thought they'd need it and might not even know how to implement it, although it doesn't strike me as that hard the way things are set up (basically you'd bring a server with you to function as the "LAN" and reconfigure things to point to it over the normal TR).
But I dunno. I don't know that you really make your plans for "well, we expect a catastrophic loss of Internet half a dozen times today."
That would be called a "contingency plan", Business 101
Rape victim should've had a gun on her. Contingency plan, obviously.
Not an appropriate comparison lol.
But she should have had something to defend herself! I mean, it's small investment of 600 dollars, and it only take a trip to the gunstore, and a background check.
On October 07 2012 10:33 Kavas wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but Blizzard's excuse for no LAN is to prevent their game from being pirated (or something). What excuse does Riot have considering the game is supposed to be FREE?
why would you need LAN for an online only game?
AHAHAHAH
Shows how much game developers have already warped our brains. I have no hope for the future.
Oh come on. LoL isn't a classic LAN game. It's pretty much an MMO. Having LAN as a standard feature makes no sense.
are you trolling, if your serious dude you need to stop.
What? I'm not. From a business standpoint, LoL is pretty much an MMO.
Uh, you are aware that LoL spawned from DotA, which was played on WC3, which had LAN?
But LoL's business model is much closer to the business model of an MMO. There's no point in having LAN for LoL for everyone.
Yeah, they should have tournament LAN. But from a business standpoint there's no logical reason to have LAN for everyone else.
On October 07 2012 10:33 Kavas wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but Blizzard's excuse for no LAN is to prevent their game from being pirated (or something). What excuse does Riot have considering the game is supposed to be FREE?
why would you need LAN for an online only game?
AHAHAHAH
Shows how much game developers have already warped our brains. I have no hope for the future.
Oh come on. LoL isn't a classic LAN game. It's pretty much an MMO. Having LAN as a standard feature makes no sense.
But it makes sense to have LAN for their own usage, for example whe they are hosting WC.
Shure, but I'm talking about LAN as a standard feature for everybody.
nice for you that you are talkiing about that, but we arent
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