I just haven't seen anyone confirm the source of this quote, I can't find it through any searches or videos. Does anyone have a link to this quote? Or has Hashinshin just overreacted?
In a theoretical sense, you don't need to play a game to be good at balancing it. Realistically, you would have to really, really over index on game knowledge (including not only the rules but also the player experience) to be able to do so. It's sort of like saying that blind painters are a thing that can exist. That's probably not the fastest route to being a good painter though.
I do play League of Legends all the time.
I also don't balance it personally. :)
I just haven't seen anyone confirm the source of this quote, I can't find it through any searches or videos. Does anyone have a link to this quote? Or has Hashinshin just overreacted?
To be honest you DONT need to play to balance.
Thats like saying you need to be a 5 star chef in order to judge 5 star food.
Or an award winning director to be a movie critic.
Etc...etc...
I don't play on that account because I post on it - here for instance. I play on the same LoL account I have always played on.
This one was 4 months ago. In 4 years of posting on the boards there is no record of him saying he doesn't play the game
Don't listen to Trashinahin on anything.
I'm not rewatching the talk to see if the quote (or more likely, something similar to it) is in it, but GC did a talk on balancing league at gdc: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024237/Balancing-League-of-Legends-for
Probably interesting to watch/listen to even if it doesn't directly have the quote in question, and is probably a much more fleshed out explanation than a single context-less quote anyway.
Well, that explains why the game is shit.
