@Riot: Ok, so got into the Heroes of the Storm alpha, and they've got replays

Cheesybox·Nov 19, 2014·2 votes·1,384 views

Come on Riot, step your game up. There's a friggin ALPHA out there that has replays. Why can't you implement a replay system after 5 years?

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Neon EmperorNov 19, 20142 votes

Because they even could not change engine of the game. Game is still running on Adobe Air which is laughable.

Sir ArmaMalumNov 19, 20141 votes

There's also the fact of capacity. Heoes of storm has how many people in the alpha compared to League's millions? (No, really I have no idea how many Heroes has)

Replays would either have to be stored locally (which really messes with low-end comps with little space) like LolReplay does. Or Riot-side, which would mean Google-level of cloud capacity. Heroes has the major advantage of recognizing the need for replays in it's early days and can let that feature grow with the game. League did not have that luxury.

DrCyanideNov 19, 20142 votes

It's not that hard to implement a system a la StarCraft 1, where the most recent game(s) are saved locally and will be automatically deleted. At this point, players don't even expect a replay system to work on old patches, we just want something!

CheesyboxNov 19, 20141 votes

It's not that hard to implement a system a la StarCraft 1, where the most recent game(s) are saved locally and will be automatically deleted. At this point, players don't even expect a replay system to work on old patches, we just want something!

Exactly, this would not be hard to do. Or at least implement something that gives us the option to save them locally, like SC1/2/Heroes of the Storm/CS:GO. The people who care enough to save every game to review mistakes aren't going to be playing on toasters, and for the people who are, even if it takes them a while to do so, I think they'd like the ability to save the pentakills, the outplays, whatever. It doesn't have to be every game automatically saved in the cloud.

OnegarionNov 19, 20141 votes

You know its also Blizzard who have a ton of extra resources that Riot doesn't have and a ton more experience through multiple successful games.