Any developers on this board? Let's make a new LoL

Luigi Tortellini··1 votes·755 views

TBH the devs throwing this game in the shitter isn't the only reason I'm so dissatisfied with this game any more. Coin flips and unwinnable games and mindless stomps have ALWAYS been a part of Mobas since the first wc3 mod. The difference is now I work 8+ hours a day and I can't do my work properly if I don't get 8+ hours of sleep. Couple that with my commute of 45 minutes each way and various adult responsibilities, I have at MOST 4 hours to myself each night on a weekday.

Having an unavoidably shit game of league used to be something I could brush off when I had all the spare time in the world, but when I just used 1/4 of my free time accomplishing nothing in the real world and just frustrating myself in time I said aside for leisure, it's infuriating...

Don't get me wrong, I still think the Devs are doing everything humanly possible to make this game as awful as possible, but I also think many of us who play it are in the same age group (1990 - 2000) and are simply growing out of it.

I still like video games and remember all the good times I had on lol. I work with and hang out with real people everyday that I met on LoL, but I can't bring myself to play another game.

I'd decided to channel my enthusiasm for the genre to make my own Moba, something that I know I would enjoy playing. The setting is going to be different, a military themed moba aiming for a very real theme. Sort of like company of heroes but a moba. As an ex sc2 player the thing that drew me to League in the first place was that it was like an rts but your army is split of across 5 different players. Also I hated the idea of macro management (aka keyboard chores) being more important than actual strategy.

If you're interested just add me on League and we'll exchange contact info in the League pms. My personal skills include a programming and dev ops background, and some experience in Unreal 4 making VR and AR demos. I've always had my friends do the modeling, but I'm picking up blender pretty quickly. I'm looking for artists, modelers, and other coders to help me out. Lets make something we'd like to play and who knows, maybe one day it'll be as big as Leauge!

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ADC Yuumi3 votes

You would enjoy it. Done. That's it.

Nothing else said.

Luigi Tortellini1 votes

I know weebs don't enjoy anything without half naked lolis, I can live without their business though.

The Bad Touch1 votes

Can we remake old League? You know when the game was good back in season 1 and 2?

Luigi Tortellini1 votes

Yeah I miss it, we'd need a completely different aesthetic to not get our bootys sued off by Riot. Or we could just move to China lmao.

Luigi Tortellini1 votes

Teemo would have to be a Vietnamese rice farmer and Tryndamere would have to be King Arthur. Caitlyn would have to be Chris Kyle etc. Xin Xhao could be kept the same.

Crispy0Snake1 votes

If you make it then power to you and I hope it does well.

The problem that League is having right now is that people generally don't want to spend more than 30min in a game where not a lot of action occurs, so they have to cater to that kind of audience or less people play the game and invest time and money into it. Less people will watch esports and then they won't get as many sponsors. They need sponsors and they need players to play so the pool of players that buy LoL content is as large as it can be.

You will need so much money to get a game like a moba off the ground with League, Dota, Smite, HOTS etc. all in this same market. You'd need money to market it, money to pay people to make it and if your moba isn't free to play... who's going to play it? How would you intice players to get micro transactions? On top of that how will you make unique characters and balance them all? You'll face the same balancing problems and criticisms that Riot is facing today.

My advice is to not play League in the week when you have a full work week, just spend the time resting or whatever. League isn't a fun game to lose in right now and it is an absolute coin toss if you're in an elo where you have a 50% win rate. Maybe watch youtubers play!

And if you want changes to occur, post to lol reddit and make a good point, and if it's good it'll get upvotes and a change will happen.

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