When Rito says they are not building a Sandbox mode

Laughing Fish·Mar 11, 2016·80 votes·3,328 views

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20 Comments

BârdMar 11, 201639 votes

Would be too big of a buff to Azir , won't happen.

AMYS GRAVEMar 11, 201635 votes

More of a buff to Nidalee or Rengar because they could finally relieve themselves.

iainB85Mar 11, 201630 votes

Then you remember the cringe worthy explanation they gave of why they won't do it.

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TacoTheKittenMar 12, 20161 votes

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Pentarina OnlyMar 12, 20168 votes

People would be having too much fun.

yay nibbersMar 12, 20162 votes

Having fun is toxic

Jeddy017Mar 12, 20169 votes

As stated here:

We’ve heard a number of player requests for a Sandbox Mode, with two main reasons: the first is trying out new content – which is something we value too. We want players to know what they’re getting and to be happy with the things they’re unlocking (we may investigate other ways to do this). The second is that players want to practice very specific skills without the constraints of a regular game. For this point, our stance is that sandbox mode is not the way to go. We want to make sure we’re clear: playing games of League of Legends should be the unequivocal best way for a player to improve. While there are very real skills one can develop in a hyperbolic time chamber, we never want that to be an expectation added onto an already high barrier to entry. On an individual level, we know this isn’t always true – some just want a space to practice flashing over walls without having to wait at least 3.6 minutes in between – but when that benefit is weighed against the risk of Sandbox mode ‘grinding’ becoming an expectation, we just can’t accept the tradeoff. We never want to see a day when a player wants to improve at League and their first obligation is to hop into a Sandbox. We do want to support your ability to grow in mastery, and there may be other avenues to do so, but not this.

Many disagreed with this because,let's be honest,Sandbox mode would be used more to dick around & test out dumb stuff rather than "train".

RuyMar 12, 20161 votes

I remember some other Rioter said it was pretty much because of the spaghetti. A lot of stuff would have to change (in the code) to make it possible, and yes they have been trying to fix the spaghetti but is a Spaghetti god.

TacoTheKittenMar 12, 20163 votes

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RuyMar 13, 20162 votes

New skin: Code Vel'koz. Velkoz

Monkey D LuffyMar 11, 20167 votes

Normally I downvote every single one of your posts but I'll upvote this because The reason Riot gave was absolutely ridiculous and completely ignored other points, they said something along the lines of " We want people to get better at league of legends by playing league of legends, not some inaccurate mode that isn't relevant to the game"... Something like that... Which is stupid, they ignore the fact that it would be fun, they ignore the fact that sometimes people only want to practice one thing in particular... They're just making excuses not to make it when honestly it'd be the greatest possible thing this game could receive.

ralseiMar 11, 201616 votes

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DrCyanideMar 11, 201611 votes

Their unspoken reason could be more accurately like this:

We don't want to make a sandbox mode because exists. is just too powerful, allowing you to get over walls, dodge abilities, and fire abilities part way through the animation of the ability. Right now these things are slowly learned over time, but if there was a way to quickly test them over and over again it would result in too many players feeling like mastering is a requirement to play the game.

kile147Mar 11, 20167 votes

But mastering flash is a requirement to play the game at any sort of competitive level. To not make players feel like that is just lying to them.

I am PacmanMar 12, 20166 votes

Because either a sandbox mode would require massive servers (and all resources required to run them) to handle everyone's individual games or you would have to allow the client to download the program and code that runs league on to everyone's computer and open up the code for everyone to see (this means easily coding hacks and exploits based on existing code which can bypass the actual server).

Neither of these are plausible. Those servers could be used better to host rotating game modes every weekend (oh look at that, something the community wants!)

On top of that the barrier to ranked would be raised due to the expectation that you have mastered everything about your champ and the game in general in sandbox mode already. (Also increases toxicity when ever someone fucks up litterarly anything, "wtf go back to sandbox mode and practice scrub")

There is not enough benefit to be gained from a sandbox mode to outweigh the problems it would cause.

WhatAGeiniusMar 12, 20161 votes

On top of that the barrier to ranked would be raised due to the expectation that you have mastered everything about your champ and the game in >general in sandbox mode already. (Also increases toxicity when ever someone fucks up litterarly anything, "wtf go back to sandbox mode and >practice scrub")

By the exact same line of reasoning, bot games should be removed entirely. Hell, people actually do say "go back to playing bots" sometimes.

Blue Moon WolfMar 11, 20162 votes

Now someone needs to take this gif, remove the sandbox and we will have an all purpose Rito pls gif :D seriously though, wtf Riot? I wish to fine tune my items, runes and masteries, but I can't get a good idea how they will do cause no one ever wants to go support or jungle in bots. hell, most of the time I'm stuck going support if I don't feel like fighting over cs's (which is 95% of the time). The only plus side to this is that I'm great in the support role now T_T

Beast BrawlerMar 12, 20161 votes

but it is a Spaghetti god.

So then, we have the Flying Spaghetti Monster as well in this here League of Legends.

ltmetalMar 12, 20161 votes

Bump. Rito pls.

Head ConnoisseurMar 12, 20161 votes

They said it's because they don't want people to feel like putting hours of time into sandbox was a requirement before you played actual games........but really...it's just because sandbox wouldn't make them any money.