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    27 days ago

    It’s like those black friday sales, gotta change the number before you change it again and then brag about the second change as if the first didn’t happen!

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    27 days ago

    The company that is being struck because it tried to sneak around the union contracts by making a shell company to do casting calls below the contact rates? That Riot Games? I’m not shocked.

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    27 days ago

    So hire more artists to churn out cosmetics, mtx content while milking existing code that will change less?

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    To say I could care less about league of legends is an understatement but I am anxious about legends of runeterra’s future, it demolishes hearthstone or magic the gathering in its core gameplay mechanics and is genuinely free to play friendly.

    Ugggh

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      I could care less about league of legends is an understatement

      Couldn’t. Couldn’t care less about league.

      But the burning fires of my grammatical pet peeve aside its a damned reasonable choice to not care about it. My worry is how other esports companies will react to this. It’s still such a tenuous sport even with the crazy viewer numbers the League world championships bring in, and if the biggest name in esports is about to start jettisoning actual production staff from the biggest title in the room… Idk, I can see other companies overreacting.

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        26 days ago

        You understood what I meant, please don’t assume I am interested in being corrected for silly grammatical mistakes : ) :) :)

        That is a really good point though, and in general I think this is a dark time for video game fans seeing so many devs that made our favorite games be tossed away by the corporations that profited off them.

        For one this bodes terribly for growth and innovation in gaming for the next 10 years, why go into the industry if creating one of the most sucessful esports games ever isn’t enough for a corporation to decide you are worth employing consistently? The state of things is a joke and a very destructive one at that.

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      27 days ago

      Is LoR still alive? I used to play it for a few years until I just got tired of CCGs in general, but the Arcane season 2 trailer made me all nostalgic again. Back then (before the Reddit exodus) it seemed like the game would be taken down anytime soon.

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          26 days ago

          Good to hear! Is it still fun to play?

          I burned out because of the constant pressure from battle passes and meta changes, so a more stable meta might not be all that bad.

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            I play singleplayer (I LOVE the mini roguelike mode) and co-op for the most part so I can’t speak to that authoritatively but take a look at the runeterra reddit, it is active and vibrant and it isn’t full of complaints about the meta or anything.

            I mean, I don’t know active playercount stats or anything but there is clearly a solid community around it that genuinely loves the game (for very good reasons) and that is all that matters to me!

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              26 days ago

              Thanks for the insight! StarCraft 2 is in a similar state (remaining healthy and fun despite the lack of developer support), so that’s a good sign :)

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        It’s in maintenance mode with further development mostly focused on expanding the single player mode last I checked. But yeah was a great game!

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            Huh really? Makes me kinda want to get back into it now. Kinda Itching to give mah Demacia Elites deck another drive :>

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            Too bad there isn’t an active LoR community on Lemmy.

            build it and they will come!

            … tho maybe a generalist ccg/card battler lemmy would be a better place to start, I wonder if one of those exists yet.