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S5 Will Kill League

Nimmer··1 votes·613 views

Now that I have your attention, S5 won't entirely kill League. It'll get the WoW treatment. The entire reason that WoW "died" is because they introduced too many changes too fast with Cataclysm's release. Cata really wasn't even all that bad (it was worse for sure) it was just too different. My friends and I all found ourselves annoyed with all the changes and it kind of felt like they tried to change too much at once resulting in a bunch of features that didn't really work great. They mostly all worked just fine, just not like the old system used to. Which is what I fear is going to happen to League in S5. It gets a shiny new coat, but they're changing a lot. I haven't played the new settings yet, so take what I say with a grain of salt. But after reading all of the negative things people have to say about it (a decent amount) I decided I might as well make this prediction. Just my two cents. Give me your feedback in the comments; especially testers I wanna know what you have to say about S5 changes.

TL;DR Too many changes too fast in S5 pre-season will kill league like Cata killed WoW

P.s. everyone says WoW "died" but honestly it's still pretty good. It just lost a lot of it's player base really fast. It still had and still has a ton of subs. It's just not #1 anymore

6 Comments

Hayaishi2 votes

I actually believe Riot's shitty designing will kill league.

Sailor Mint1 votes

What exactly changed in Cata?

I've heard that every expansion killed WoW (on top of Battlegrounds and the removal of World PvP). But nobody actually has a list of features.

I was done with Heroics after three days and raiding on the first Sunday of the expansion.

Nimmer1 votes

What exactly changed in Cata?

i've heard that every expansion killed WoW (on top of Battlegrounds and the removal of World PvP). But nobody actually has a list of features.

You can look at dropped subs somewhere on the internet. And the battlegrounds and world PvP were possibly the first misstep. I loved Battlegrounds but they took away from World PvP which was awesome. The biggest thing with these kinds of games is immersion. If you wanted to PvP, you went to their areas and fought. It was cool. You felt like you were fighting a real war. Up until Cata World PvP still existed somewhat. You could fight outside of raid areas and Northrend/Outlands was honestly just a great area to fight in. Not to mention the old World PvPers would go and do it for fun anyway. It wasn't as good, but it existed. Again with immersion, you had to fly to raid entrances. You had to form your own group for raids. In Cata you could queue for raids. In essence you could stay in the capital city and queue spam until your character was complete. Really lame. A TON of class changes that they couldn't balance right for like, two seasons of arena. Gearing was entirely different. The world PvP immersion concept doesn't apply to LoL, but it was a big change. Jungle changes kind of fit there. I haven't played the new jungle, but it only takes a brain and a youtube video to see it's WAYYYYYY different. Completely new experience. Not everyone will hate it, some will love it. But again, there's no slow adaption. A fair amount of people are going to hate it. Items are supposed to change really drastically as well. That ties in with balance changes. It's honestly just too much all at once in my opinion and they aren't going to be able to fix everything people dislike or are having trouble with fast enough to stop the bleeding imo.

Sailor Mint1 votes

Well, here's the biggest difference between WoW and LoL.

Slaying Internet Dragons was the main WoW attraction, PvP was a small sideshow. Summoner's Rift (PvP) is the main game.

Nimmer1 votes

Well, here's the biggest difference between WoW and LoL.

Slaying Internet Dragons was the main WoW attraction, PvP was a small sideshow. Summoner's Rift (PvP) is the main game.

I agree with you in part. It still has significant application though. I pointed WoW out because it's also a video game, but people hate change. It's just a fact of life. Some are good at it and some are bad, but few like it. Good changes can happen and people can like them, but again too many changes too fast and a lot of people are going to find something they hate. And with so many changes, Riot will struggle to address things people hate.

Ishikawa goemon1 votes

for me is like you go with you friends to play football,and when you are about to start they say that the rules have change and you end up annoyed by all those changes, and in the end you and your friends didn't enjoy the game, the whole point in a game is have fun, and enjoy it with other.

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