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So, I hopped back over to WoW, and it got me thinking.

Dr Clueless PhD·1/9/2015, 4:57:44 PM·1 votes·1,100 views

I gave in and went back to WoW since Warlords launched. Figured it would be fun for a while, and I was right (so far, at least). Then, I made the mistake of checking out the community. Forums, fan-sites, what have you.

Man, I thought we were bad over here with the attitude of "It's different, therefore I hate it." If WoW forums are any indication, that's part of the agreement you sign when you install the game over there. I mean, we get stuff in League like "I'm leaving after X years because this isn't the game I love anymore" and "This Champion is not the one I bought! I hate you!", but it's WAY worse in WoW, it seems like. NO change goes by without the community erupting into back-in-my-day's and threats of unsubbing (especially good changes).

I can't believe the WoW devs can handle talking to the playerbase at all. I thought we were bad over here. I really did. Every time a Champion gets reworked or a system gets overhauled, we get the same stuff, but the WoW playerbase sits on that platform all day, every day. Hell, I just saw someone on the official forums asking for the ammo system back for hunters, and he got upvotes!

It got me thinking: why is it so much worse over there? Why are the players so attached to old things, even if they're terrible? Why are they so afraid of change, relative to LoL players?

I'm not sure exactly, but it's a little scary. It could simply be a function of game age. Which, if that's true, I FEAR for what the playerbase turns into after a few more years of League.

7 Comments

Mahnigguh1/9/2015, 5:32:15 PM2 votes

games are better in the vanilla stages...only thing to it...the games are still fun and the devs haven't had a chance to mess them up yet.

Mahnigguh1/9/2015, 5:41:26 PM2 votes

think when BC came out...Everything people worked hard to get became vendor trash and people got butt hurt...Same for LoL. People worked hard to learn meta's and mechanics then it each season everything they learned gets butchered and shifted and it was all fro not. playing today is COMPLETELY different then season 2 when i started. half my fave items aren't even in game any more lol. just part of playing a game for longer then 3 months...changes happen and it usually sucks.

asktiks1/9/2015, 5:53:25 PM2 votes

back when I started playing LoL , I wasn't worried about picking any champ and having it not work on the current meta, there was no meta, glorious old days where I could take mages top or bottom instead of just mid

these days the meta seems so enforced that I hardly feel like I have choices sometimes even with all the available champs at my disposal I feel I am forced to pick one that fits a certain role/comp because of the almighty " meta" and player mentality that you cannot deviate from it, frankly I hate it and its really starting do drive me off this game again riot seems a good company but the playerbase ...ugh..

anyways, dotas 2 community is looking less whiny than this one lately and that's saying something

D0nC1/9/2015, 6:46:26 PM1 votes

Hah, you know nozing.

You have been under a spell in this game by Lyte and pals, there are games that make this place look like a church.

Try the BF forums if you think you can handle actual outburst and trolling.

Ask uncle Greg Street aka Ghost Crawler about his days there and how he was sizzled to a crisp when he did not listen, poor guy and he was such a nice person too.

Drunk Rummate1/9/2015, 6:53:22 PM1 votes

maybe they're just sad because blizzard was like a diamond in 2001 that has slowly rolled downhill and accumulated a ton of shit smears for the last decade. they can thank activision for that. all they do anymore is make stuff look pretty, they dont care about actual gameplay.

everything new is just an unoriginal, washed up version of it's former self with tons of WoW design values behind it because "hurr durr, WoW was susccessful." they should probably go into the movie business because their games suck. they're all homogenized since WoW.

Riot on the other hand clearly cares about their players and fans and they communicate and release content much more frequently. Hell, they're even creating their own network infrastructure to correct the server issues in NA. It's been a long, painful road but can you honestly say any other company has ever addressed this problem in the past? Riot is cutting edge here.