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DJ Sona - Why not actually DJ?

Boxed Wines··3 votes·715 views

Well, everyone's on the hype train for the DJ sona skin. I'm deffinately one of those. I really adore this skin to the sky's and above. Now, the concept of her music is really cool and all - I really do love it. The way her skins stick with the theme of each song when it changes and all that. Well Riot, what about letting us jack in and actually do some awesome DJ'ing? I think it would add to the skin even more if you could open up your music player of choice and start spinning some tunes of your own through the league client! Maybe i'm asking for too much out of this skin - but that'd really push this skin to an all time high in development riot. DJ sona with the ability for the player to ACTUALLY DJ? I mean really guys - think about it. People go into a game and decide "Hey, this song is pretty good. Maybe my team might like it?" so they switch to "custom DJ" mode where the skins cycle as normal, but the music you have playing through something like Windows Media player, WinAmp - Hell, Google Play Music for crying out loud - would start streaming into the game. Now that would really make something of this Skin.

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Circuit Bear2 votes

Lord Dusteon already gave one reason, the second reason I would say is because that is a much much much larger technological burden.

So in DJ Sona, everyone has the music installed already, so telling them to switch songs can be anywhere from a line to five lines of code. The actual conversion to bytes is a bit harder for me to do but I can say this is a very small data transfer, compared to, say streaming the music across the net to Riot, then having Riot broadcast it to five other people, overriding the fact that the game only plays music it has installed on your computer, which means updating the game to handle much more burden then originally intended on the network. This can also cause a greater amount of lag for the user and players.

Then you have the possibility of embedding viruses in such a transmission and securing that would require some solid code or constant scans which would add to the burden of Riot significantly. I can't say exactly how feasable this is since I work in system administration mostly, but I assume it would cause a greater amount of security risks.

Boxed Wines1 votes

While I do understand these concerns, I do think that it's much easier than you're making it out to be. While we do use Riots Servers to play our games - it's not that difficult to embed a streaming service inside of the client. The lag though wouldn't be an issue on the listeners side. the real issue would be data constraints as you had pointed out - based on input and output. As for virus transmission - that's the same with any game. Our internet connection information is sent to riot servers - which encrypt them so others can't access them. It /is/ possible for someone to hack riot servers and get someones IP from someone while they are ingame. It's difficult, but possible - though again, adding a streaming service ingame can cause security issues.

This is the board for concepts though - it's only a concept. :)

Circuit Bear2 votes

Cool I lost my post.

Alright take two.

First, I was referring to embedding a virus in the music so the people receiving(not riot's distribution) it caught one on their computer. It is possible to have very small viruses, many embedded in a simple banner ad. With this in mind, the delay caused if Riot were to scan every song would be noticeable. Much less if they could handle the resource utilization.

Second, I think the burden on the listener is a bit bigger of a scenario then you give it credit for, but since you can disable it, the burden is alleviated mostly so I won't bother with most of my thoughts on this side.

Since my networking experience leaves me a bit limited on the software side, I can't really speak to it. I still think the data flow of the music would be notably larger then most the game data leaving the computer since the majority of the files are already on the pc, but this is a bad assumption I can't really make. But this would usually imply to me a much larger consideration.

I guess the practical person inside me had to comment though. The idea is nice, but I just don't see it being practice, or time effective to make a server side large scale coding change to allow for streaming of music. I suppose you could argue that it could be utilized for other things, but i can't see that technology being used for much else.

Rozzeta2 votes

As cool as the idea is, there are three issues: 1- It would imply messing with the client, which has ecome a big no for Riot (in LAS you can no longer alter it to get english voices, for example) 2- Since the skin lets you share your songs to teammates, some people could take advantage of this for, let's say... kinda nasty purposes. 3- Riot could be sued by music companies for allowing distribution of material under copyright.

Lord Dusteon1 votes

I don't think Riot wants the possibilities of tuning in to DJ sona having a chance of tuning in to, say, someone screaming curse words for 5 minutes.

Boxed Wines1 votes

This is true - but you can always turn it off. It's not something /have/ to listen too. Just like you can turn off the EDM sona, you can turn off Asshat McDumboPants too.

disregardable1 votes

Now I actually want the skin to have this. I'd love to inflict that on my teammates that refuse to focus objectives.

Doofs1 votes

Did you hear the guy on Reddit who hacked into a school's PA and cameras? Spoilers, the whole video was offensive racist jokes and orgasms. They can do the exact same. Having Riot to approve certain songs for a skin some people will have isn't worth their pain.

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