Just wondering about gold income after watching Sky's new video...

Johr Dinh·Jun 9, 2016·2 votes·345 views

He said games of LoL are draining and are much longer than other games out like Overwatch, CSGO, etc. I personally don't mind, I like it after playing games like CoD/Halo/etc for so many years. I know Riot was trying lots of stuff to shorten games earlier this year (like death timers) but why didn't they just increase the rate of static gold income across the board so people just reached items faster by default? Kinda like ARAMs, but probably not as fast...actually maybe as fast cuz you're doing way more stuff and moving around a bigger map fighting less so it'd prolly still be ok. Idk just wondering if this was even looked at as an option, or did they do it slightly and I just missed the patch notes?

6 Comments

MrBuffingtonJun 9, 20162 votes

They could also cut item costs across the board. I haven't seen it suggested but if I had to guess, it wouldn't really add gameplay, just make games end faster. Death timers aren't fun, but at least there's the argument that it's based on how well you do in game. I think one reason ARAMs have higher passive gold is because CSing isn't a big part of that game mode (partly because it's difficult with 5 people in a lane).

JbelsJun 9, 20161 votes

It's....not great, man. Most of it comes from ad revenue and network deals

Johr DinhJun 9, 20161 votes

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It's....not great, man. Most of it comes from ad revenue and network deals

Don't know why I expected a serious discussion on here in comparison to r/lol haha

JbelsJun 9, 20161 votes

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Don't know why I expected a serious discussion on here in comparison to r/lol haha

Sorry xD

IcyPepperJun 9, 20161 votes

Probably not just static gold income. Maybe just increase gold gains around the board?

Johr DinhJun 9, 20161 votes

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Probably not just static gold income. Maybe just increase gold gains around the board?

I suppose that'd work too. As long as everything in the game just got a boost it probably wouldn't be detrimental to the game in any way, but definitely just the static gold amount people get from even being afk in the game would be an even safer bet. Either way i'm surprised this wasn't done or talked about as a way to make games quicker. I do believe they did it for supports after a certain amount of time in game so they can keep up, should just do it for everyone tho.