League of Legends is honestly wasting Riot's talent.

Scrimshäw··14 votes·1,559 views

League of Legends is likely as good as it's ever going to get... Riot can afford to work on a side project. Why not just something small.. like a single player RPG? Riot has creative, artistic, and musical talent that rivals Bethesda... But they choose to continue dumping resources into a very shallow game. I've shelled out over $1000 on League, so don't get me wrong, I obviously like it. But it wouldn't hurt to have something... else.

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Rew7112 votes

I say, make an MMO based off of FusionFall. That game was my childhood, and seeing it fade away made me sad. It was the perfect MMO (but you had to pay for the rest). It was somewhat free allowing players to stay in the past and play together. I'd love to see something of those standards be taken on by Riot. I believe in you guys.

FusionFall had great mechanics: – Guns made you aim to hit targets – Swords dealt good damage – Only 3 power-ups at a time – Easy conversations between friends – Nice combat with friends – A huge world to explore

Now, image all this, but in Runeterra.

Rigbum1 votes

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I say, make an MMO based off of FusionFall. That game was my childhood, and seeing it fade away made me sad. It was the perfect MMO (but you had to pay for the rest). It was somewhat free allowing players to stay in the past and play together. I'd love to see something of those standards be taken on by Riot. I believe in you guys.

FusionFall had great mechanics: – Guns made you aim to hit targets – Swords dealt good damage – Only 3 power-ups at a time – Easy conversations between friends – Nice combat with friends – A huge world to explore

Now, image all this, but in Runeterra.

Actually once they hit 1 million players they got rid of the "pay to play" and made the entire game free giving exclusive armor to people who were actively paying at the time.

Rew7111 votes

But only for about a year to 3 years later, it was shut down. You can't play it anymore.

Rigbum1 votes

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But only for about a year to 3 years later, it was shut down. You can't play it anymore.

Yeah makes me sad, although there are some people who are bringing it back with fan servers. Its called "Fusion Fall Legacy" you should look it up!

LICENSED HOOKER1 votes

holy, fusion fall was the shit. That was back in the days where cartoon network was decent before the rise of stupid t.v shows

Ouroborous HD4 votes

what talent are you talking about.

their balance team sucks their lore team is nonexistent. their community connection is a one sided exercise in masochism

the only recognizable talent in riot are their visual teams cuz hot damn the rift looks better than ever and the champs look great too.

The Lexer8 votes

good visuals good music doesn't blow up computer always adding new things to keep us interested and they actually have a fairly decent balance team They main bad thing they have is players like you trashtalking them

Rew7111 votes

my computer did "blow up (the hard drive lost its juice)" do to too much League of Legends, but its cool. its just that ping makes my computer have to run like crazy and heat up to try and still run the game.

Dusty Rodgers1 votes

This man is the truth.

Rew7112 votes

They have the game idea that follows Sona, Miss Fortune, and Hecaram to a video game world, ruled by Veigar.

WhaiSoSerious1 votes

The game is dying out. Not sure if it has to do with their insane amounts of bans or just cause the game got old.

Time to move on. Honestly wouldnt be surprised if they were already working on another game. They see their numbers dropping dramatically. I dont even have to look at the numbers. Just look at how long it takes to get a game now compared to last year.

Buttigieg 20201 votes

LOL league dying? It is increasing year by year. And idk what you are talking about when you say finding a match takes a long time. It takes me 10-20 seconds unless it is a bot or dominion game. It takes an hour in super high elo but that's just master/challenger.

WhaiSoSerious1 votes

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LOL league dying? It is increasing year by year. And idk what you are talking about when you say finding a match takes a long time. It takes me 10-20 seconds unless it is a bot or dominion game. It takes an hour in super high elo but that's just master/challenger.

You are dillusional.

Lich My Ashe2 votes

You're dillusional if you think delusional is dillusional.

WhaiSoSerious1 votes

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You're dillusional if you think delusional is dillusional.

Shocking.. we have a grammar nazi.

Lich My Ashe1 votes

Get your vowels and consonants straight man! This isn't Iran!

IcyPepper1 votes

You both have differing opinions.

But you can't call him delusional if you can prove your point. Maybe you had experiences with queue times, but you need to provide actual proof before outright calling someone delusional, or you need to disagree on a subjective level if you cannot provide it.

WhaiSoSerious1 votes

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You both have differing opinions.

But you can't call him delusional if you can prove your point. Maybe you had experiences with queue times, but you need to provide actual proof before outright calling someone delusional, or you need to disagree on a subjective level if you cannot provide it.

lol not gonna upload a video just to prove a point. Honestly I don't have to. Try getting into a game and compare the waiting time to last years or 2 year ago. Thats if you were even playing at that point.

It's not really that difficult to figure out. Some people may want to deny it and that is fine, this is their favorite game but the facts are there inside the game.

supes the lost1 votes

My queue times usually sit around 40 seconds in normal queue, the longest I've ever waited for a game was about 28 minutes, but that was a 20 min low priority queue game as Garen mid on teambuilder.

Scrimshäw1 votes

i'm sorry but you're kind of wrong... riot counts players per year, who do you think those players are?

spoiler: smurfs.. the game is a turn off to new players because of how expensive champions are and how slowly you earn IP

Colgate Gator1 votes

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The game is dying out. Not sure if it has to do with their insane amounts of bans or just cause the game got old.

Time to move on. Honestly wouldnt be surprised if they were already working on another game. They see their numbers dropping dramatically. I dont even have to look at the numbers. Just look at how long it takes to get a game now compared to last year.

Of course you don't have to look at numbers, you don't want to because they'd prove you wrong.

WhaiSoSerious3 votes

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Of course you don't have to look at numbers, you don't want to because they'd prove you wrong.

You are in denial, buddy.

When i first started this game it would take me not more than 30 seconds to get a game in 3v3 or 5v5. That was consistent for a good 3-4 years. Since the end of last year it generally takes me 4-10 mins and late at nights it will take me 10-15 mins to get 1 game.

Those are the numbers. So idk what your talking about them proving me wrong. If anything that proves me right. Now if you want to sit here and argue some more about it being otherwise then so be it but honestly.. I dont care what you say at this point because you are obviously in denial.

Keep telling yourself that the game is still active as ever. Doesn't affect me at all. There is no game that becomes more active as time goes by, it just doesn't happen. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Buttigieg 20201 votes

Wtf. The longest queue time I have ever had for a normal game was 2 mins. And that was at 3:00am on Christmas.

Supp Hero1 votes

I think LoL is great, but I agree it's kind of maxed out its potential and they should start working on other games on the side. The biggest improvement they could make to this game right now is add map skins for Summoner's Rift so people don't get bored of playing the same old 5v5 SR.

ARAM/Crystal Scar is good but not having another 5v5 map like SR will stifle this game eventually. The least they could add is new skins for SR or TT, or add entirely new 5v5/3v3 maps that are essentially the same as SR/TT with different appearance

Eleshakai1 votes

I would bet they ARE working on other things on the side, they're just not ready to TALK about them yet.

Xx420n0sc0p3sxX1 votes

Riot GameS

I mean, they kinda have to.

Kürama1 votes

It's actually getting better. The new Butcher's Bridge map is an example of this, as well as the consistent updates to pretty much everything. League's not shallow, it's the most popular game in the World, has been for 4 years and will continue to be for years to come. It's also the best MOBA in the World.

What we need to probably increase the potential some more is a completely new permanent game mode, with a new map.

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