HotS stability vs LoL stability

Xolo·Nov 9, 2014·1 votes·1,166 views

HotS is in alpha and I've never encounted a bug on it.

LoL has been out for years and half of the time my game crashes immediately when the loading screen starts, on a freshly formatted hard drive.

Hmm...

9 Comments

Dv4ntNov 9, 20142 votes

LoL has been out for years and half of the time my game crashes immediately when the loading screen starts, on a freshly formatted hard drive.

Riot can't fix your crappy hardware, or make sure you keep your drivers up to date.

Just wait for HotS public beta or release; Blizzard servers are always overwhelmed and unstable.

LegostrikeNov 9, 20141 votes

Blizzard V Riot. No seriously, blizzard is just overall better because they have the money and the knowhow to deal with such things, not to mention they are constantly in pursuit of quality (before you mention WoW, don't until WoD).

Riot, on the other hand, only has this game as far as I can tell from their site. And while it's a great game, they seem to only have a small team, especially in the development department. They just don't have the behemoth resources and experience of Blizzard. If HotS overtakes League, i'm probably going to switch. If it doesn't...meh.

OnegarionNov 9, 20141 votes

HOTS is to simple for competitive. If you've played it you know its very objective based and those get bonuses that are extremely OP. Its not healthy. One of the maps make all enemy minions HP go to 1. Making them ultimately useless.This is unhealthy for a true competitive scene where skill suppose to be the deciding factor. TO me this bonus alone is beyond powerful. Another map has it where you can fire on a tower and deal a massive amount of damage to it.

Its really hard to foster true competitive nature when there are no items, but The improvements to heroes is kind of interesting not sure how effective it will be overall. I see it turning into another X path is best with Y path ok, but Z path is troll.

I think the game is interesting but atm I don't really see it breaking into a competitive monster like League or Dota2

XoloNov 9, 20141 votes

HOTS is to simple for competitive. If you've played it you know its very objective based and those get bonuses that are extremely OP. Its not healthy. One of the maps make all enemy minions HP go to 1. Making them ultimately useless.This is unhealthy for a true competitive scene where skill suppose to be the deciding factor. TO me this bonus alone is beyond powerful. Another map has it where you can fire on a tower and deal a massive amount of damage to it.

Its really hard to foster true competitive nature when there are no items, but The improvements to heroes is kind of interesting not sure how effective it will be overall. I see it turning into another X path is best with Y path ok, but Z path is troll.

I think the game is interesting but atm I don't really see it breaking into a competitive monster like League or Dota2

This topic has nothing to do about esports or competitive gaming in general. I don't care about esports.

OnegarionNov 9, 20141 votes

But it does matter about it. In the effort to make esports better League has gone through many patches and updates that have inserted more bugs of which HotS hasn't. That and overall time has caused it both of which HotS doesn't have.

BronzeMastermindNov 9, 20141 votes

Maybe because Blizzard has a clue what they're doing? Everyone at Riot is criminally incompetent.

Rustling BushNov 9, 20141 votes

its probably because the server is outdated, i'm not sure if they changed it over the years or not but theres really something wrong when you have 1 person lagging everygame.

Commit SudokuNov 9, 20141 votes

League is going through rapid changes for season 5 there are bound to be some mishaps, no company is perfect. I am sure within 2 years of HotS people will be complaining about the same thing. HotS has x amount of bugs/crashes over 2 years but X moba is in alpha and I have run into no problems. You can't compare the experience of a game that has been out for a couple months to one that has been out for years.

OnegarionNov 9, 20141 votes

This is a clear sign of the OP not understanding how programming, patches, and time all make it worse.