Is League is trying too hard to appeal to kids and not its core RTS fanbase?

GreyfellD··4 votes·1,141 views

League used to be a fun game about strategy. I think the decline of League could me traced back to the release of Overwatch and that game's popularity (since Blizzard is one of Riot's main competitors and where a lot of the employees originally came from). The game changed its focus from a strategic slow-paced MOBA where pentakills were a rear occurance, to the game it is today with every character having the ability to one shot another champion in one ability rotation.

Now I ask myself... is it me? I will be 30 this month, am I too old to play this game now? Am I too old to enjoy it because Riot want to cater to a new generation of "Instant Power Now" kids and the game has radically increased in pace. The same is currently happening with the Card Game Yu-Gi-Oh, older players are feeling displaced by the much faster and combo based the game has become and a part of the community, a much older and more mature part has been lost.

Is there are place for people like me now? An older generation of gamers that feel displaced because the game we once loved is being changed before our eyes into a much faster and less strategic experience?

Am I the only person who is feeling this way at the moment?

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ChargeItDownMid3 votes

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GreyfellD1 votes

I would love to see Summoner's Rift become longer and more enjoyable again, will less one shots and tower dives and more strategic gameplay. I have hoped for this before but I doubt it will happen.

ChargeItDownMid1 votes

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GreyfellD1 votes

As I've said, they've lied before, thats why I remain sceptical, but I do hope for the best.

rawiazam12 votes

#IT'S A MOBA NOT AN RTS!!! thank u

GreyfellD1 votes

It BEGAN as an RTS and in Season One was massively more strategic and games were a LOT longer then they are today. MOBA's EVOLVED out of Defense of the Ancients, a mod for WARCRAFT III, an RTS. MOBA's HAVE RTS elements by their very definition.

rawiazam11 votes

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It BEGAN as an RTS and in Season One was massively more strategic and games were a LOT longer then they are today. MOBA's EVOLVED out of Defense of the Ancients, a mod for WARCRAFT III, an RTS. MOBA's HAVE RTS elements by their very definition.

ummm no, it's layout can't even be an rts, games that are rts: starcraft. comand and conquer. age of empires.

in league, you don't command units and build and stuff, it's a moba not an rts

GreyfellD1 votes

You still have a top-down perspective, with buildings that you need to protect. I think you are splitting hairs. Moba's evolved from RTS titles, the two are intrinsically linked.

Beatrice falls2 votes

They want what makes money, aka dumb kids stealing their mothers credit cards

ChargeItDownMid1 votes

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Beatrice falls1 votes

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Wouldn't targeting 18-34 demographic be more profitable?

Nunu

GreyfellD1 votes

Would be if they weren't losing the 25-35 demographic by making the game so vastly different from what it used to be and what brought people here in the first place. I doubt they care about North America or Europe at all, Korea and the Asian Market is where the money is at the moment.

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