Comments on: League of Legends an MMORPG?

By: bitmouse

bitmouse — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:14:53 +0000

If you want to download League of Legends click HERE. This is a reference link that the developer gives to gamers to allow them to refer friends, basically it gives me crap in the game.

By: Realist

Realist — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:48:40 +0000

I would like to point out to John (February 20, 2010 at 10:20 pm) that it is a **FREE** game.

Get over yourself.

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league of legends download — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:03:04 +0000

plz dl link?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:58:54 +0000

LoL is still a great game…although I think Riot can fix on a lot of simple quality of life things to make the game even better.

By: John

John — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:20:30 +0000

To those of you in the gaming community which are avid users and/or fans of various online-based games, I come to you with a report on the abuses of users/fans of League of Legends (LoL) by RIOT Games.

While promoting their product, they asked each and every one of those who are active members of the LoL community to vote multiple times daily at MMOSITE. If RIOT achieved top seat in two of the three categories, we would each be rewarded.

The community responded, and the achievement was so. Since LoL became public, however, the reliability of the servers has been horrible. Downtime for up to 12 hours at a time, glitches throughout the client and in gameplay, etc.

Today, during our reward period for voting LoL as the top game for two categories, the servers have been mediocre at best. Additionally, the server crashed within the last few hours removing any and all benefit of the reward given.

Poised as a company that is for and by players, RIOT has now reduced its standing and has caused many people to just give up. When issues are reported, there is little or no response. Due to the frustration by the LoL community, hostility has come toward RIOT Games. In response, RIOT has completely disallowed any user to login to the site to post anything.

I am posting here so that some of you may read this and make your own decision whether to play LoL (it is a really fun game – if it is working). But am also posting hereto attempt to “go to the mattresses” and get help in resolving this issue by outside pressure.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

By: Xan

Xan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:12:26 +0000

Definitly not an MMO, heck even Guild Wars wasn’t an MMO but rather just a COORPG (co-op online RPG).

The thing they both miss is a large persistant world with alot of player characters to really make them “Massive”

We just need an official MOBA classification to list this game under, and a lot of others that are coming, such as Bloodline Champions.

And for those defending it that it’s an MMO, what makes it massive? The community? By that logic Diablo and FPS games such as Unreal or Quake are MMO’s

By: jpwoo

jpwoo — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:06:40 +0000

Having never played DotA, it doesn’t conjure that image for me. This would be like calling all MMO”s Ultima Onlines, or whatever the first one was.
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And it isn’t quite an RTS, the S part implies strategy, and while there is some they are definitely more team based than strat based. It feels more like a game of soccer than Command and Conquer.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:03:07 +0000

@psycho
You’re absolutely right when you say LoL is an RTS and DotA is as much of a “genre” as MOBA. The thing is though when you play games like LoL, Heroes of Newerth, etc. you automatically associate it with DotA. I mean the way I see it is DotA has kind of evolved into its own “mini” genre under RTS.

By: psychodude

psychodude — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:31:51 +0000

Eric: DotA is as much of an existing “genre” as MOBA is. DotA is just the name of a mod. If we were to stick to the defined genres LoL should be classified as RTS, nothing less, nothing more. After all, an rts is what it is.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:44:52 +0000

JP:
Yea, I never really heard of the term MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas) until I started playing LoL. I don’t like the term because I feel that people are going to start making up their own little “genres” for games. We should just call it a DotA game and leave it at that because that’s what League of Legends is at heart. And yes the game is great and very very addicting.

Callan:
I never really got into Diablo because at the time I was playing Counter-Strike like a mad man so I can’t really comment on that.
As I said in my post I never considered LoL to be a MMO until I saw that news article on the LoL website. After thinking about it I had to admit it did have some MMO/MMORPG qualities. Are those qualities enough for it to be coined as a MMO? I don’t know but there are a lot of people and many sites that label League of Legends as an MMO which I found to be very interesting because like I said I don’t think LoL is a MMO.