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Lock the 'Play' button in the client until the Patch Notes have been clicked

Silven·2/4/2016, 1:01:01 PM·1 votes·960 views

Another champ, another random who has no idea that the big cheese everyone has been talking about for the last, what, three weeks, has a really long range ult.

I see this all too often. People queue up without reading the patch notes (and this was a big hitter during the preseason) and their jaws drop into the basement when they hear that Graves now has a new Q and different auto attacks.

Which is why I suggest a teensy tiny change to the client (or the patcher, if you want) that would lock the Play button and grey it out until the suggested link leading to the newest Patch Notes (or Champion Spotlights, even, if necessary) has been clicked once. It'd open up a new tab/window in your browser and at least suggest the player to take a look before they hop into the game so they at least have a general idea of what's coming for them.

Games are fast-paced. I have neither the good will nor the patience to explain to a random teammate in the middle of the laning phase exactly everything the new Champion can and can not do, what his strengths are and which abilities are most likely to take you from behind harder than a prostate exam conducted by a train.

3 Comments

TheThundersRoar2/4/2016, 1:52:06 PM1 votes

Would accomplish nothing. Just like the Terms of Service that requires you to scroll to the bottom. You just quickly scroll without reading crap, and then you hit 'Accept'. People would do the same to the patch notes.

Anyway, even if this somehow worked, I guess it would require everyone to read the Wikia page on every champion? Because it's a lot worse to have a teammate who doesn't know what Volibear's passive is rather than one who doesn't know Rengar got his scalings shifted on his Q last patch.

Trust me, it takes years of experience to know the little things about all the champions. Not everyone has this experience. Even if a player had to learn what the new champion does before playing, this does not mean he knows what the old champions do.

Oleandervine2/4/2016, 2:16:10 PM1 votes

They'll figure it out quick enough. All it takes is one button press for them to see the skill is different, and a minute or two to read the skill tool tip. After that, they'll be floundering about getting their bearings with the changes in the same way they would be doing if they'd read the patch notes and started a match. This would be an unnecessary change. However, I read the patch notes out of boredom while waiting for the client to patch simply because it's in bright friendly letters right on the launch screen.

legionnaire992/4/2016, 2:23:26 PM1 votes

well don't play ranked the day of a new champ and if it normal's stop crying