Sandbox Mode

TheDarkinLegend·Aug 25, 2016·1 votes·322 views

"We were wrong to completely shut down the possibility of sandbox mode. Full stop. Our initial argument - that training mode makes for an even higher barrier to entry - makes some behavioral assumptions that many rightly called us out on. Your passionate feedback and sound reasoning, along with a lot of internal conversations around this vision of League as a global sport have made it clear that our concerns only have the potential to become reality if we’re not doing our job. Providing competitive experiences at all levels of play also means we should be providing the right training tools at all levels of play"

Here is what I think: They fear this because it will give players the tools to prove beyond a shadow of doubt that certain champions are much more powerful than others and often quite broken. Then they will be forced to, ya know, actually try to balance the game for once.

3 Comments

AcidTheWarlockAug 25, 20162 votes

I hope it's a thing where you can test out all of the champs and not just screw around with item builds

Mira Arya EntheAug 25, 20161 votes

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"We were wrong to completely shut down the possibility of sandbox mode. Full stop. Our initial argument - that training mode makes for an even higher barrier to entry - makes some behavioral assumptions that many rightly called us out on. Your passionate feedback and sound reasoning, along with a lot of internal conversations around this vision of League as a global sport have made it clear that our concerns only have the potential to become reality if we’re not doing our job. Providing competitive experiences at all levels of play also means we should be providing the right training tools at all levels of play"

Here is what I think: They fear this because it will give players the tools to prove beyond a shadow of doubt that certain champions are much more powerful than others and often quite broken. Then they will be forced to, ya know, actually try to balance the game for once.

Oh jesus christ. As if they don't do their best to balance the game literally every single patch. Do you even read patch notes? Balancing hundreds of items, 132 champions at multiple levels of play, with runes and masteries. Yeah you try it. They do balance the game.

TheDarkinLegendAug 25, 20161 votes

IF they really wanted to balance the game they wouldn't patch it every 2 weeks--they rush changes which make them have to make other changes etc etc.

They don't balance the game. Nothing about it is balanced. You literally see the same handful of champions every match