League of Legends (Old)

[ortolan]

stop feeding

[ortolan]

I toyed around with LoL for awhile and enjoyed it, but I hate the communities around DotA games so much. LoL isn't quite as bad as DotA on WC3 used to be, but I've never understood why people's first response to someone on their team dying a few too many times is, "YOU SUCK, YOU MOTHER [insert explicit sexual act]ING [insert racial slur] [insert gay slur]." Why not be a decent human being and offer some suggestions so they can actually improve? I understand. It's frustrating to play with a feeder, but that's no excuse to be a horrendous bigoted jerk to another person.

I reserve my venom for leavers, those mother-loving-whore-sons.

EDIT: My favorite hero was Kayle. I didn't get a ton of kills with her, but I did save a lot of team mates with her ultimate and helped chase down a lot of enemies with her heal/speed boost and slowing attack.

Um I'm pretty sure the whole point of most online games is just abusing people incredibly hard

but DotA variants are the only games I've seen where a single person is often targeted for an entire 40 minute game.

um, LOL? I doubt you've played many mainstream internet games then.

[ortolan]

I've played plenty of mainstream internet games, but now that I've thought about it a little bit more, the only other game that I can come up with where I've seen people get as routinely belligerent as DotA and team RTS's is, strangely, Hearts on Yahoo games. Christ, those people would get mad if they felt like you weren't playing correctly. Admittedly, there are FPS servers that might approach the same level of ugliness as a DotA game, but it's pretty easy to find servers where it doesn't happen or isn't tolerated. MMOs can sometimes get ugly, but it's a lot rarer and usually doesn't last as long since either the aggressor or newb gets tired of the situation and leaves.

Well I can't comment as I haven't properly played either of those games (I'm actually not a DotA/HoN/LoL player) but I do find talking shit in games quite amusing in general, to be honest. Especially when you know the people in question.

[ortolan]

u pray reague of regendddd?

[ortolan]

the whole DotA/LoL phenomenon is an example of guys taking a game (sc,wc3,sc2) and dumbing it down sufficiently that the unwashed masses can indulge their compulsion for tedium on a nightly basis. It's an example of making obscene amounts of profit from the Lowest Common Denominator. It's what Mumford and Sons are to the music industry.