Can someone explain why we CANNOT have a custom HUD?

Proelium·Jul 23, 2015·1 votes·454 views

I keep getting told that on the PBE Riot said we couldn't move the position of stuff... is there a good reason for this?

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Mat7itanJul 23, 20151 votes

This is a comment I made on another post about a customizable HUD.

This is good on paper, but would be bad in practice. Having a customizable HUD would be good because like you said people could play with a layout they wanted. However, there are really only two options that could be implemented for a customizable HUD, and both have their problems.

(Least amount of problems) - Riot makes a default HUD in which each piece can be moved around (this could lead to a few visual bugs). The problem with this is that the default HUD riot makes might not work with everyone regardless of whether or not they can reposition everything. For example there are people complaining about the friendly champion icon/info being too small right now, so even if they could reposition everything they still wouldn't have the HUD they want.
Riot makes it so every part of the HUD can be customized and changed by the player (Size, look, color, etc.). While this would allow people to make the HUD they want, the amount of customization options they would have to implement so everyone can be satisfied would call for a lot of what could be some pretty complex code (the more complex the code the more bugs you are likely to have). With numerous options for customization it is very likely that this would cause many visual bugs which could take quite some time to fix (complex code). And even after all of this mess there would be limitations on what you could do.

So in reality it would honestly just be a waste of time to create a customizable HUD.