@Riot How can you claim LoL is a competetive game or an 'eSport'?

Essorance·11/20/2014, 3:25:53 PM·2 votes·958 views

Changing the game mechanics so drastically every season, not to mention every few weeks for the patches, you make changes to such important parts of the game, will not give consistency of competitive ranking across the board of teams and players. The pitch size does not change in football, the ball size does not change in tennis, pieces do not change in chess, other games that are played competitively for over ten years (e.g. Street Fighter 3rd Strike) are left untouched and unpatched.

What is your reasoning for claiming this game to be competitive or some kind of 'sport' when the game is effectively different every year?

5 Comments

Cinguin11/20/2014, 3:50:17 PM1 votes

The pitch size does not change in football, the ball size does not change in tennis, pieces do not change in chess

Would you rather play a game so much that it feels stale? The problem with this analogy is that you are forgetting the amount of strategies/players are available in those sports. League has a finite set of champions and roles which gives it far less room for innovative strategies. (or it used to) There were roughly 5(?) different strategies if looked at broadly and each was given a clear counter. Unfortunately certain champions made specific strategies defy that rule without much effort or skill from the player (I'm looking at you Ziggs , Nidalee ) Changes needed to be made to keep the game interesting to play ad to watch without getting stale.

xFeelsbadx11/20/2014, 7:40:59 PM1 votes

Are you serious? You are going to compare other sports that have been around for hundred of years to a game that has been around for just over 5 years?

Football didn't always have fricken helmets with face guards on them, baseball wasn't always played with helmets on, basketball players don't always run the same plays each and every season.

Sanshoku11/21/2014, 3:26:43 AM1 votes

The pitch size does not change in football,

Except that it does. Pigskin football is 110 yards in Canada, and European football is often played in stadia with varying dimensions. Rules might not change at the pace you see in League, but they do change.

Expecting a static game item 3087 to be played is unrealistic: what is important is that whatever changes are made are communicated equitably among professional eSports teams prior to them engaging in their matches.

DrNova11/21/2014, 8:45:37 AM1 votes

I only follow football, but it has changed A SHITLOAD in its long history. Passing used to be illegal, then later you could pass but not more then like 10 yards. Ect Ect. Granted I agree LoL changes too rapidly, but still most sports have actually had quite a bit of growing and changing.

And to be fair even to LoL's rapid changes, regardless of whether good or bad at times, everything in the digital era must adapt and change much more rapidly, just a byproduct of the era.