please stop writing short stories in ability tooltips

Toastey·Mar 9, 2016·3 votes·359 views

please

i don't want a billion extraneous adjectives and adverbs and unnecessary nouns. just tell me what the ability does, and give me full numbers.

6 Comments

TNHA BaritoneMar 9, 20161 votes

Get a thesaurus then.

ToasteyMar 9, 20161 votes

"too many extra words" =/= "i don't understand what this means"

there's too much useless information lying around the tooltips. tooltips should be concise and convey as much hard data as possible in the smallest possible space. they are not the place for trying to paint narratives or to stir the imagination.

TNHA BaritoneMar 9, 20162 votes

It's what Riot wants in the tooltips tbh and it does bring story (as well as understanding to the means of power that each ability holds)

It would be boring to review your abilities (while you're focusing on numbers, someone new to a champion might rely on those narratives to explain what it is actually doing)

ToasteyMar 9, 20161 votes

never thought i'd see the day that someone argued "extraneous descriptors provide valuable information in a tooltip"

TNHA BaritoneMar 9, 20161 votes

Never thought I'd see the day that someone was so hypocritical that they used the phrase "billion extraneous adjectives and adverbs and unnecessary nouns" when describing the **unnecessary ** narrative stylized tooltips.

ToasteyMar 10, 20161 votes

you don't seem to understand the concept of context. it doesn't matter what i write in a forum thread. it does matter what's written in a tooltip

need for word efficiency in one place =/= need for word efficiency everywhere