How long is the client gonna be this jenky?

DiveAlive·May 11, 2017·3 votes·534 views

Clarity, efficiency and functionality were sacrificed for aesthetics why?

7 Comments

SlythionMay 11, 20171 votes

I mean, it was also so that the game would be running on a system capable of handling millions of players at a time. The old one was inefficient and initially designed for only a few thousand

I have very few problems with the new client tbh

DrCyanideMay 11, 20172 votes

so that the game would be running on a system capable of handling millions of players at a time.

The new client, just like the old client, was only ever made to handle one player at a time.

SlythionMay 11, 20171 votes

what do you actually mean by that? Neither client was made to only be able to support 1 player lol

DrCyanideMay 11, 20172 votes

The Client only ever allows 1 player to log in and play at a time, thus it only supports 1 player. You can't log in as 2 players in the same client, much less millions.

The Servers are what handle the 100 million monthly players of League, and they were handling that many with the old client.

You were mistaken on every front.

SlythionMay 11, 20171 votes

except the client interacts with the actual system, and they've been updating both and the client does indeed interact with both the system and multiple people through that system. Lobbies and Chats are a clear example of the client interacting between players.

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-2017/client

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/community/q/ask-riot-league-client-update-and-death-recaps

Read those for clarification. I suppose I could've explained further when I was suggesting the old client was old and outdated, incapable of handling the current things that League has. I just never expected a smug ass to be arguing when there are several statements by Riot explaining the matter already

DrCyanideMay 11, 20171 votes

Neither of those articles even implied the back end changed.

Lobbies and Chats are a clear example of the client interacting between players.

Interactions that are less available in the New Client than they were in the Old Client, since Chat Rooms are gone.

While people do interact through the client, you're still wrong on the client being able to "handle" different amounts of players. Neither client cares if it's been installed on hundreds, thousands, millions, or trillions of machines, it's the Servers that care about that.

Yes, the new Client opens the way for Riot to get around problems and limitations that existed with the old Client. But those problems weren't the number of players using the Client.

HethaleanMay 11, 20171 votes

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Clarity, efficiency and functionality were sacrificed

I'm not sure that I personally agree with this statement in any form.

I think the client is pretty clear and easily figured out, even moreso than the old client. I think the client runs a ton smoother with less resources (at least on my machine) than the old one. Besides itemsets, the new client has just better functionality than the old client which was a decade old, and they're even adding itemsets due to community feedback.