When did the magic disappear for you?

When did the magic disappear for you?

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I remember one specific post by an user comparing DotA and LoL, one of the best quotes was

>"Playing LoL is like playing Annie vs. Annie in mid, if she has an advantage over you then there is nothing you can do, since she can do anything you can, but better"

>"Playing DotA is like playing Annie vs. Xerath, if she gains an advantage over you, you can still get her if you play your cards right, it is like having 1 bullet left in your gun vs. your opponent having 10 bullets, you can still get him with that 1 bullet"

After realising that, i stopped playing LoL, and since i already played DotA1 for years, i had no interest in DotA2. MOBAs died for me then

The magic was never there. It was always a shitty game for retards.

Season 3. It was just shit, to be honest. Although, I'll admit that the game started going downhill after season 1 ended.

Pre-season 1 was some of the best gaming I've ever experienced.

Exact same thing brah
I played a game with a few old friends a few months ago and it just isn't the same

around the end of Season 2. Lore got carved to shit and balancing not only locked the meta in stone but did nothing but ruin anything fun while continuing the never ending battle of mobility creep vs cc creep while old dashless champs are left out to dry or ruined by reworks

Dota
Pretty early into 6.

League
after s1

Dota 2
Shortly after TI 2

The magic disappears right after I ejaculate, when I masturbate to the excellent r34. I've never actually played the game, thank god.

As soon as they shifted from the colorful, rocky art style to the desaturated, metallic art style. The map reskin is where they totally sealed the deal.
I mean, the game was always shit and still continues to become even more so with every update, but I have some pretty good memories playing it at uni. I didn't have much choice if I wanted a social life.

Shortly before Rek'Sai's release. I noticed the meta is
>New champions
>Updated champions
>Eternally broken champions
Only less than a quarter of the ensemble are viable, the rest will never net you a win no matter how good you are. Nobody can win with a Garen of a Tryndamere.
It's basically more about who you play instead of how you play them.
That and them shoving their shitty e-sports scene down our throats.

That and playing every game FOR 50 MINUTES for barely any advancement.

I still watch Imaqtpie from time to time though, but that guy's just guilty pleasure.

This. I keep saying this. The game looked way more appealing and fun back when it looked like that, I mean, fuck, it makes me want to play League.

How it currently looks is fucking ugly and it has more or less zero personality.

When artists draw sona with tiny tits.

what magic lmao?

any "magic" mobas have ever had are directly a result of Blizzard not Riot or Valve

mobas from a purely mechanics focused perspective are nothing but fuel for a rage fire
everything else is not original to the genre

>you will never buy heart of gold again
>you will never buy philosopher's stone again
>you will never stack sunfire capes again
>you will never build metagolem again
>you will never play spell machine gun ryze again
>you will never burst heal on Soraka again
>you will never play on-hit tank killer teemo again
>you will never play sexy voice nasus again
>LoL will never be fun again

>you will never what bob's league stream again

The magic died after S2 when they started slowing the game down and nerfing Bot lane and made it harder for a good player to carry but still made it easy for a bad player to shit up the game.

Then they tried improving supports which was a step in the right direction and made it fun to play them and made me switch to a support for a while but it wasn't much more than proactive
money earning to buy more wards for the team instead of unique ways to support.

Then they made fuckhueg unkillable tanks with crazy dashes and mobility that can literally dive onto the ADC or mid and ignore crowd control with 99999 hp with one item and I stopped playing completely. It could be fixed if ADC's had like a blink dagger type thing or something so tanks had to think about positioning more than just going for a dive.

Then I tried Doter 2 but the additional RNG in literally everything and floaty movement just felt like bullshit so I dropped mobas altogether

When did the shitty forced 1/1/2/jungle meta come into play? Because that's where it died.

Magic? Where and when? If anything, it gave TONS of people cancer.

When I got a new GPU and was able to play Dota 2 max graphics ...

Kled's kit is absolutely fuck. What were they thinking?

It kind of crept up to me. Initially my brother got me in at the end of the beta. The winter before season 1.

Played it for a long time and had a few friends I would always play with. Soon my brother and one other dude stopped and I just played with one other guy for years. Was a blast but in the end Riot kept destroying more and more shit I liked.

As shiity as the game was I still have some fond memories. Anywhere from retarded shaco to screwing around with teemo to exploiting rumble in combination with old karma. And lets not forget stacking sunfirecapes and jungle eve

The new map definitely hurt me. The washed out map might look nice but everything just blends on the background. Couldnt read the game clearly anymore. I already played the game very little at that point though

Died when they brought in Dynamic queue.

The high elo (D1+) ladder is absolutely fucked. Every challenger / pro just plays on smurfs all day and there's just no integrity in the ladder anymore. No one gives a shit once you get that high up. It's a complete shit show now.

There really is no reason to go above D2/D1 now.

>the champion pics are already crops from the champion art
newfag.

you will never play magic pen gangplank ever again

>you will never ever play AP master yi again

We here at riot games only allow ONE BUILD per champion. If you ever think you'll get a champion you can build AP or AD, then you're a dumb retard because we'll never let that happen again!!!

Man...fuck. What a bummer.

This is half true in the case of human players because people make mistakes

when they started streamlining builds and lanes

ITT bronzies

damn, he was the most amazingly relaxing streamer. I donated to him after I started working as a thank you for the great years.

he still streams but it's mostly just hearthstone or hots

jeah, and hots just isnt my cup of tea and hearthstone bores me after 2-3 matches. Also now I'm having less time so I almost never watch him. The memories are great though and thats all that matters.

Everything that was stated in this post is the truth.

When they decided that summoners controlling the champions as the lore was something that needed to change.

>>you will never burst heal on Soraka again
Don't fucking remind me.

I never asked to be a shitty health battery. There was nothing wrong where Soraka was pre-rework. Now she's all sorts of fucked up. She's not a toss-up of either being half-decent or complete trash. Fuck Riot. Fuck Guinsoo.

I remember all sorts of fun shit you could do. Riot just needs to enforce their stale meta. RIP MONEY MAKIN'

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The beginning of the end was when they stopped trying to balance Flash and balanced the entire game around it instead.

Season 3 was the harbinger of death. Season 4 hammered it home. Everyone I played with stopped caring at Season 5. I still play. Not as much. Don't really know why I play anymore.

>game is called League of Legends
>said league that housed the legends was retconned out of existence

There was that one period of time where they were releasing a new fucking champion every two weeks and they all sucked.

Not long before overwatch came out. It was well timed, I had something to jump ship to. Overwatch still has its flaws but they're not as glaring as League's. The balance in league is some of the most abysmal I've seen in any game ever, the variance between characters and roles is almost negligible outside of certain ults. There's almost no counterplay to anything your opponent does outside of basic kiting mechanics. It's just a really fundamentally flawed game and I think they'd have to pull an Evolve-tier Re-release to get me back into it at this point.

>tfw Ionian boots got their name because a streamer nobody remembers abused an item that nobody remembers in a showmatch nobody remembers

newfags will never know

When you make your game and in-game universe more of a spore instead of a, you know, VIDEO GAME

The first guy that came to me saying "Hey have you seen that new game thats like dota ? " Years ago was a fucking normie without any game experience and shit taste.

That was enough to go all torch/pitchfork on that piece of shit thats responsible for the word "moba" , the most autistic term in history.

Like, 5 years ago when I quit highschool?

When I stopped playing 2012-2013 and got my ass hand each game.

Wasn't it Stonewall playing Udyr? I still subscribe to him on YouTube.

>you will never body VideoGameDunkey again

Yep, "that game genre where two teams fight to destroy a nexus" just rolls off the tongue.

>"moba" , the most autistic term in history.
Pretty autistic thing to sperg out about. What do you call it then?

When I got permbanned for calling people niggers, sometimes jokingly and sometimes unironically

Bye Sona, you're the only part of this game that I miss.

THEY NEVER FUCKING BUFFED SINGED
(or shitty champs for that matter|)

"Not DOTA"

Not him, but the technically correct term would be "ASSFAGGOTS"

The term "MOBA" would correctly be defined for a game like Bloodline Champions since it's, you know, an actual Arena combat-oriented game.

Couldn't have said it better

Nope, it was GuardsmanBob on Udry tearing everyone a new asshole

Innervating locket was removed the next patch.

Btw league threads should be considered normie shitposting and get deleted

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Untrue. He has received nothing but bugfixes and buffs since 3.11. We are in 6.16. Best one so far:

Fling / Mega Adhesive

Root duration increased to 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 seconds from 1 at all ranks.
New Effect: Laugh sound effect added.

Anyway, you can't buff people like Singed or Heimer who basically freeze lanes, but can never be left alone. Their stupid carefully crafted meta would never allow that.

It's not true tho, I mean it would be true in silver but most of the matchup, especially in midlane can be overturned.
Tho bot / top is where the snowball is real.

when they made trundle some generic ice giant

It's a video game, fuck off sperg.

You know what isn't DotA? Everything that isn't DotA. Even Dota 2 isn't DotA. Has to be a bit more specific, you know? That's how language works.

You said it. You said the thing. Here's your (You).

At the end of S4, with all the stupid changes in the jungle in pre-season5 and making the whole game even easier by adding timers and range indicators for literally, everything, it was in that one when the tank meta became SS+ tier and everything else was B tier.

farmville is a video game too

the only way for me to have fun in this game anymore is to run heimer+blitz botlane

yes it is good job

are you fucking retarded? singed has at best 500health to begin with while his passive is great yeah it doesnt scale more than most other tank champions
the mega adhesive passive is what seperates the boys from the men
braum,sion,darius,vlad and even leona have more health throughout the game than singed
plz gtfo singed died when they dropped his poison range

It was never there. I played HoN during the moba craze. Stopped playing when it went partial f2p because of all of the foreign shitters. Tried again after it went full on f2p and it's even worse.

That was my second guess. Also, he was already posted earlier in the thread. Someone remembers him! He streamed late July, actually. He's on Facebook. No more Boblights though.

He's streaming right now too

When i got bored of the game being won disproportionately by champions that use stuns to essentially render the game temporarily unplayable for a person with an activated-on-click spell that results in you getting wailed on with no defence.

I'm bored of slapping the controller out of my hand being a legitimate game mechanic.

So bored of it.

Yeah, it is. I never said anything about the quality of said video game, just that it was, in fact, a game.

>present nothing but facts
>"are you fucking retarded?

Health is the only thing that matters, right? Not skill, mitigation, lane pressure, or anything that might help your team in the long run vs "I have to have my high k/d/a fix and Singed isn't getting pentas! FUCK him!". Play someone else if you don't understand how to use him.

...

Yeah keep getting carried by your teammates
you fucking know im right about him and his scaling you're just in denial of the fact that you have to try so hard to win each and every game when hes simply unbalanced anyway
whatever your loss

To be honest, the moment the game became a "big eSport". I hate eSports culture with every fiber of my being. Not competitive gaming as a concept, but the entire cancerous community and culture surrounding it. Complete with behavior that makes football fans look sane and well adjusted, turbo-cringe and online drama cranked up to eleven. League of Legends started this, and Valve put the final nail in the coffin of competitive gaming by putting literal gambling and microtransactions into the mix.

When damn near every hero was either an unkillable monster that shit tons of damage or was completely useless

can you trade skins yet?

I got bored of this game back when it was called Aeon of Strife.

What were they thinking?

>tied for #1 MR at level 1
>#11 armor at level 1
>middle of the road hp because if it was higher people would abuse his passive
>always build tanky with some ap thrown in

No. You're not even right about his "poison range". They dropped how long it lingers by .25s and that was in season 01.

You don't need to try hard to win as Singed. All you do is your main job. Make them pay attention to you. If they do? Farm. If they don't? Push while farming. A gank incoming? Waste as much of their time as possible. It's a zero sum game. The more people and more time they waste on Singed, the less they will be involved in gold/exp gain. Junglers love Singed because they never have to come top for them.

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You and everyone who says shit like that is so incredibly wrong it makes me laught.
The only terryble champions league has are probably urgot and teemo. Everybody's else can still make it work. Sure they won't be tier 1, but they're not completely useless either.

What the fuck kinda Augsburger Puppenkiste is that?

Early Season 02^

the magic died for me when A: it became apparent that 90% of their resources go into pumping out skins instead of improving the game and B: when they made that blog post about how they're never bringing back solo queue and said something along the lines of "We want to remove the emphasis on individual player skill"
absolute garbage
i even started playing dota 2 for a while but that game has its own horrible flaws
HotS is fun but absolutely nobody i know wants to play it and it's pretty boring to play alone

During the beta, game has always been shit

when they hired this ugly dicklet gook and he turned it from a fun internet video game into a hellish orwellian nightmare

>we have to cure le internet toxicity guys sticks and stones may break your bones but text in our faggot game is a no-no

nobody has ever given a shit about malicious voice shit talking in games, let alone text. league was so much fun in beta and s1 before this shit really took off.

they literally made one of the funniest people to ever exist, dunkey, quit their game due to these cuckold tier policies, and they've infected a whole new generation of games with this passive-aggressive, feminine attitude where you can get banned for MEAN WORDS, and by a fucking robot no less (see paragon, HoTS, overwatch, most modern websites with chatboxes etc)

>Summoners retconned the fuck out
>Champions, Riot and other stuff still refers to summoners

>"Our braindead fans have eaten all of the shit we've put out so far... They won't mind some retarded gremlin riding a clear shitty ripoff of Toothless from HtTYD. Also, we should be like Blizzard more, because we are retarded."

boo hoo you can't call people niggers in videogames just like you can't call them niggers in real life.
You knew that this was coming. You knew that internet was not going to be this special place, separated from reality, where you could act as you want and it made no difference.
Why are you surprised? Torrents are dieing, anonimity is dieing, it was all inevitable,

>le quirky yordle meme xddd
>dashes
>double-use abilities
>max health % dmg

could it get any more flavorless and boring

season 1

their "balancing" is aids

>he unironically believes his

I choose Teemo faster than lightning against some top champions who rely heavily on autos. Teemo is Nasus' worst enemy.

Urgot is a given. I'd throw Yorick in there. Poor guy. Not even allowed to be on free week.

wait what, this guy actually works at riot? I met him at valve several times. he was working on some game research or something. what's he doing there?

nigger

I miss playing the beta.

Dodge runes Jax.

Honestly it felt out of my control whether we won or lost. I enjoyed playing support and healing/CCing enemies en-mass but if the mid/top/jungle were fed, you basically lost no matter how well you did bot lane. Sure, maybe I could have just "got good" at other roles but I don't have the amount of Adderall to compete with these twitch-reflex champs they always seem to be putting out.

he left recently

at riot, he was head of several failed projects, most of them to do with banning "toxic" players

prove me wrong.

wow that's very offensive user, you shouldn't be saying stuff like that, someone might get offended :((((((

Yeah it's a pain but with a decent jungler you'll have a really bad time. Yorick functions as a giant cockblock for aggressive toplaners who want to 1vs1 all day. Try dueling that shit. It's a shame he falls off horrendously late game

why isn't yorick allowed to be on free week? is this cause he's getting reworked soon

you made the initial claims; prove yourself right

dumb cuck

When i realized that it was made by jelous cucks that like pissing on their own old work and that i need to grind in order to play "better" via the cancer rune system
And when I realized that expermineting with builds will get me banned
And when I heard a champion's voice lines are just "hu uh! ok ok, yes hm ok!"
And when I saw no replay save/watch sistem
And when the game runs on WCIII engine edited for weebs
And when the launcher is ADOBE
And when the saddest cucks play this game and say Numbers>> QUality
Dota for life

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