Is this the fastest video game death of all time? Not even Lawbreakers died this fast.

  • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I mean sometimes it works. Pubg was the big Battle Royale in town until Fortnite (as a battle Royale) came along. League of Legends too. The problem with Concord is it took about 6 years to come out so it couldn’t draft on the hot trend.

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      2 months ago

      League of Legends is a pet peeve of mine, since one bad person took down DotA forum, stole ideas from it, created LoL, and acted like a big shot. He wasn’t alone, but you know what I mean.

      To this day I think that Blizzard hates esports, because they left DotA with 0 support, and only after many years of Dota 2 they created Heroes of the Storm, which was even more watered down than LoL.

      And LoL is such a simple game, which is OK, but once you actually understand Dota, it doesn’t come anywhere close. It brought nothing innovative. Which is sad.

      Source: I played hundreds of hours, and put hundreds of dollars into LoL back in the ~2010.

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        2 months ago

        Conceptually, LoL filled a hole. DotA was DotA, complicated, hard, lots of nuance. Some people wanted an even more complicated DotA. Heroes of Newerth filled that hole. Some people wanted a simpler DotA. LoL filled that hole.

        I personally preferred HoN, but I can’t fault people for preferring LoL.

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          2 months ago

          I bought HoN like two weeks before it went free, and I haven’t played much.

          How was it more complicated?