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10/22/09
[beta.leagueoflegends.com] #leagueoflegends
10/22/09
Fresh blood.... #leagueoflegends
10/22/09
10/22/09
P.S.-When exactly does this beta end? 27th? With "Season One" in early 2010? Or sometime before/after that?
10/22/09
Is the game community any better than the DOTA/HoN community? I really enjoy HoN, but the community enrages me to the point of not wanting to log in.
10/22/09
Logged in last week and saw they added a bunch of heroes. #leagueoflegends
10/22/09
There are a ton of champions each with unique abilities. So whatever your playstyle is there is a champion for you.
The game launches on the 27th. #leagueoflegends
10/22/09
So far it is. There has been a smidgen of elitism by a small number of people that I saw in HoN, but for the most part everyone has been pretty civil and works together (for the most part).
I'd say it's easier to get into the community in LoL, and nicer to newbies to the genre. #leagueoflegends
10/22/09
It's quite decent. Still some things to be worked out (it is a brand new game after all). Trying to move the genre forward (forgot what they dubbed the genre. Something like multiplayer online battle arena or something) which is a good thing.
I'm mainly intrigued in the rune system and masteries (skill trees). #leagueoflegends
09/01/09
09/01/09
09/01/09
Send him (making a gender assumption here) on one of those sex tours. Since if you're beta testing this you probably have a burning need to pay to get laid by an asian.
08/30/09
09/06/09
Around ~100,000 people across the internet who downloaded AION's so-called Open Beta client would like to know how to logon without having pre-ordered or won a key as a FilePlanet subscriber.
Is NCSoft just scamming us for free publicity as many are beginning to suggest?
08/27/09
08/27/09
08/27/09
08/27/09
Either way it was a stupid way to handle an open beta.
08/17/09
Second answer is the one it wants. Enter your email. Worked fine last night for me, and quite a few others.
Patcher is totally broken, and so on. Haven't heard much good about the game - nothing good actually, but I'd like to see for myself. Good luck.
08/17/09
Forgive me, this is my first time at the rodeo.
08/17/09
08/17/09
Requiring to pay money for a beta is a "Payed Beta" not closed because anyone can get in but not open because it still has a requirement that is not free.
Please, stop calling this an Open Beta, because it is NOT.
08/17/09
And I wouldn't call the majority of your playerbase not being able to download the PATCH let alone try the actual game "minor snags". I'm a WoW player, I've seen worse. But let's not pretend this is going smooth. My official Champions Online patcher has idle disconnected me five times now... and I tell you with no hesitation that my connection is NOT the problem.
08/17/09
08/17/09
Perhaps once the wheels are back on, the car will run fine, but it sure doesn't promote confidence.
08/17/09
08/17/09
I'll give you that if by "not-quite complete" you mean, missing a racing stripe and license plate. After 2-3 years of work, how much do you think they'll get done in 12-14 days?
What you are playing is basically a demo that's missing a bit of polish.
That's not to say that the game can't improve significantly after launch, and in truth, it is more like a completely unfinished car, but it is the product their going to be shipping all the same.
08/17/09
I think a proper analogy would be that this is a highway, and we're trying to pile on as many cars as possible.
The gameplay was tested in closed beta. This is a stress test to see how well the servers hold up under pressure. Apparently not so well, it seems, but that's exactly what they wanted to find out before the real launch.
08/17/09
Well, we can continue to exchange analogies all day, but the crude truth is that the problem today was not merely a gross underestimation of the required bandwidth.
I'm not blaming any specific person, but the preparations they had made to expedite the launch completely failed.
A summary of the problem is as follows:
- They had people download a 2 gig "preload" to avoid the problem that occurred today.
- The preloader didn't work, presumably due to some issues with file structure.
- The workaround they offered hours after this problem surfaced caused people to actually delete the 2 gigs they had already downloaded.
- Now it seems the way to go is to re-download a new client from fileplanet entirely, follow a workaround posted by a user on their forums, and still have to suffer a patcher that is notorious for disconnecting half way through.
And there you have the unbiased facts, draw your own conclusions or metaphors.
08/17/09
...
BUT I AM WEAK! Best 6 dollars I'll spend. I'm downloading it right now with great anticipation.
08/17/09
Can't believe I skipped out on a trip to the beach for this. Ugh.
08/17/09
That said, yeah, I'm gonna agree with you and say this launch is a fucking train wreck.
08/17/09
08/17/09
I don't think beta testing is for you.
I have also seen you do nothing but complain. If you want to do that then that is fine. But I think it is a load of BS for it to be rewarded and given preference over other commenters.
08/17/09
In any case, I don't complain all the time. Look deeper. It's easy to assume I complain all the time because I don't buy into publisher hype and expect results instead of promises, but I do make good points a lot of the time. :P
08/17/09
I am on Windows 7.
08/17/09
As stated before, I don't think my problems are because of Windows 7, but because Cryptic shipped a broken beta. Windows 7's instability just isn't HELPING.
08/17/09
08/17/09
It doesn't help that I installed Win7 32bit on a 64bit system, so it's slower than it should be. D'oh. When I get a new hard drive, I'm going to install Win7 64bit on that, though.
I can't say I hate it, it's incorporated a bunch of features from OS X that Windows sorely needs, but I think I'd rather have XP installed at the moment, since it's just an unstable beta OS.
08/17/09
If you patcher stops, just click cancel and then click patch again......it may take a few times but it will work.
08/17/09
Good job, Cryptic! Nice launch.
08/17/09
Too bad it has been rolled out so poorly, but I guess it's better to have it happen now than when the game actually launches.
...now if they can just make sure it's working well by then. September 1st isn't exactly a long way away.
08/17/09
If there is a problem, then the beta is doing it's job. If this was the actual launch of the game, then it would be a problem.
08/17/09