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You're doing the same mistake Blizzard did

Bears eat people·9/2/2017, 10:56:03 AM·42 votes·2,650 views

inb4 sorry for my English.

Blizzard tried so hard to invite and involve new players to the World of Warcraft so they waste entire game except raids and make everything simple for newbies. The logic was about "it's so hard for newbie to do X, Y,Z so we throw away these aspect of the game, made ability prunning and now fresh player can easy to lvl up in 5 days not even take any care about content and get to LFR fast". Blizzarrd absolutely destroyed world pvp as it was "toxic" for new players. Blizzard absolutely didn't care about their existing players who was in love with game. Many years passed, and as a result a lot of old players feels betrayed for a, actually, non-existing group of players ("newbies") and then old and loyal players just left the game completely but there is no new players come to the WoW because, you know, they don't exists. I as a hardcore player with 21k achievment points has a lot of players in my WoW roster. Non of them play WoW anymore. Russian PvP community is completely destroyed and the same thing with every region.

Funny thing Blizzard is trying to e-sports nowadays.

You know why blizzard's focus no newbies didn't work? Because they think atm that WoW is cool. It's hype. So many people wants to play WoW, but, what a shame, game is too hard for them! So they simplify the game. Where was new players? Why the only result they got was just losing subscriptions so much so they stop publishing them? Because WoW wasn't cool anymore. WoW wasn't hype anymore. Everyone who wants to play WoW already plays WoW. For a new generation of players WoW is "uhm no I have real life".

Same will happens with LoL. _LoL is not cool _anymore. It's not hot hype or anything else. You can rely only on your existing player base. They don't like emotes. They don't want to play LFT oh I'm sorry URF instead of the game the love before. Don't even try to focus on new players and don't ruin entire game for a playerbase which is less than 0.05% of overall.

[slayer-jinx-wink]

ty for your attention!

32 Comments

archerno19/2/2017, 11:01:18 AM23 votes

This is fallacy. WOW is still alive due to all those things Blizzard did. WoW is still thriving as MMO RPG genre where no other game does. And thats a lot to say considering they use subscription model in time where most games are F2P. Wow is 13 years old game, its expected that old players quit. If they started playing when they were 15,16, now they would be close to 30 years old. Busy with their children, jobs... WoW survived thanks to Blizzard actions.

13 years old game thats still dominating its genre is something to be proud of.

KokalePoika9/2/2017, 1:22:37 PM11 votes

Riot is just trying to make the game more friendly and easier towards new gamers who aren't willing to spent so much time as the people who have been playing the game for a long time. This is what is killing my interest towards the game..

DragonShea9/2/2017, 8:17:58 PM4 votes

Ghostcrawler, I swear if he has something to do with this, I will write a personal letter to riot, telling them to reel his control back or fire him.

But right now, making the game easy for people while forcing themselves on the e-sport stage is retarded. these things have to come organically and if they tryhard to cater to low level players and pro players. they are gonna waste their on a minority that will stay, while losing out on the majority of both loyal and newbie players that will leave because of disgust and newbie reasons respectively.

Rebonack9/2/2017, 11:17:35 PM4 votes

I just want Dominion back. [cass-cry]

LordGeovanni9/2/2017, 10:21:41 PM3 votes

Can some one say Nexon x Maplestory

7377069/2/2017, 1:18:39 PM3 votes

Have to agree with you on this one sadly...

Darkdemon6539/2/2017, 1:26:15 PM3 votes

In what way are the changes Riot is making catering toward casual players?

dont trust girls9/3/2017, 1:43:26 PM1 votes

Yes. Lets compare LoL to WoW. Games that are completely different. LoL is a game that is impossible to cater to new players in - because you're always going to be against other players. It's always pvp - skill vs skill. If you're better you climb and if not then you don't

deadlychuck9/3/2017, 5:27:51 PM1 votes

Idk when it became accepted that "noob traps" are inherently bad.

Noob Trap: A build/decision/approach to how you play, which isn't meta and doesn't have the highest average power.

These noob traps are what allow the game to evolve. The invested long term players get stuck in their ways, they get use to playing a specific way. So for the game to evolve naturally, it has to be done through these "noob traps" with new or adventurous players, exploring the depths of how to make such a strategy/approach work. Eventually it might integrate into the old system (creating a new viable play style) or it will overshadow the old one and "break the meta".

Riot has systematically removed this from their game, by exaggerating the disparity between optimal (meta) and non-optimal (noob trap) power.

Riot wants complete control over how their game evolves, but they don't have the capacity to make that evolution stable and encompassing, like a naturally evolved change in meta would need to be, which will eventually drive players away from the game and they've already reached their plateau of player interest.

AleksaTeemo9/3/2017, 5:34:02 PM1 votes

At least before,you did not have adcs that right click you 2 times(twitch tristana) with ardent cester+locket+knights wow+redemption to never die.You didnt have syndra pressing R and killing squishy but actually having need to hit full combo and R to kill you etc.