Kanye West wrote:
Well, why is dota nearly perfectly balanced then? And a game being marketed to casual players isn't an excuse for bad game balance.
i cant judge dota since i only played like 5 games or whatever there,but from what i know it seems vastly different from how league works in terms of ressources and stuff. also it wasnt an excuse,its a reasoning. riot cares about money,not about players. they make the most money of the casual players who sit in the lower ranks and not from the good players,so its a smart decision to do what is the best for the masses.
Vulf wrote:
Except that I am a game designer while reddit isn't? Kinda offended you would compare to that mess.
You can market a game to casual players without ruining it for the rest of the player base. I mean that's what league has been doing since pre-season 1. LOL. Any veteran player can tell you the balance of the game has progressively gotten worse every season except for season 2 which was actually pretty good. No one is asking for perfect balance, but the choices riot has made lately have been really really stupid.
With all that aside I was recently flown out to Santa Monica and interviewed for a game designer position at Riot. Whether I got the job or not is unknown. Then again it's only been a few days . LOL
How can you take that serious? It's an analogy to all your posts in here. I agree season 2 was the best but it was also almost as unstable as right now? I remember blazing my way into highest ranks with jungle skarner/maokai when I didnt even play them before but couldn't do shit with my best champs. The game has been meta-focused from the very beginning,idk what makes people believe this can be turned into a game where everything is equal? It won't happen,it's literally impossible now that we are this far. It's not like I like everything riot does,but for me it's whatever and I just cope with it. The game isn't bad for me or it feels super unbalanced,I can deal with a game that has a changing meta,that makes something stronger and something weaker at certain times. Obviously I would love for my favourite champions to be OP so I can play them and win but who cares,if you can't adapt you suck. It's just pissing me off people rage at Riot when this is literally always like this,but now there's so many more people in this game that the voice is becoming louder and louder. Also,if whatever you say about getting a job at riot is true,do you really think it is the smartest decision to talk badly about them? As you said,riot game designers dont know their shit so yeah,enjoy working! :^)