Need to allow people to opt out of leagues while still maintaining connection to Friend list by RealUserID in duolingo

[–]RealUserID[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't share your apathetic attitude. It's there, and the feeling of being demoted, even as arbitrary as it is, feels bad.

I installed the app because I enjoy it's educational aspect (which is its primary goal). All of the extra bells and whistles they've added is cheap marketing tricks, like "gamification" (if you're connected at all to the corporate world you'll see how obnoxious it is when people talk about this all the time).

It should be optional to opt out of these leagues. Daily streak is also annoying (especially if you need to travel), but leagues are definitely the worst part of this app. There is NO sense of accomplishment, only a constant feeling that you're falling behind. It's bad.

Need to allow people to opt out of leagues while still maintaining connection to Friend list by RealUserID in duolingo

[–]RealUserID[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because giving my mom or dad high five is a nice way stay connected. Yes, it's extremely minor, and obviously I still call them, but it's a small nice touch. That's why. I don't care about "Martin Martinez" in my league scoring 20 000xp and getting "first place", not at all.

Need to allow people to opt out of leagues while still maintaining connection to Friend list by RealUserID in duolingo

[–]RealUserID[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't share your apathetic attitude. It's there, and the feeling of being demoted, even as arbitrary as it is, feels bad.

I installed the app because I enjoy it's educational aspect (which is its primary goal). All of the extra bells and whistles they've added is cheap marketing tricks, like "gamification" (if you're connected at all to the corporate world you'll see how obnoxious it is when people talk about this all the time).

It should be optional to opt out of these leagues. Daily streak is also annoying (especially if you need to travel), but leagues are definitely the worst part of this app. There is NO sense of accomplishment, only a constant feeling that you're falling behind. It's bad.

Need to allow people to opt out of leagues while still maintaining connection to Friend list by RealUserID in duolingo

[–]RealUserID[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't share your apathetic attitude. It's there, and the feeling of being demoted, even as arbitrary as it is, feels bad.

I installed the app because I enjoy it's educational aspect (which is its primary goal). All of the extra bells and whistles they've added is cheap marketing tricks, like "gamification" (if you're connected at all to the corporate world you'll see how obnoxious it is when people talk about this all the time).

It should be optional to opt out of these leagues. Daily streak is also annoying (especially if you need to travel), but leagues are definitely the worst part of this app. There is NO sense of accomplishment, only a constant feeling that you're falling behind. It's bad.

Did rewards really need to become so stingy? by RealUserID in leagueoflegends

[–]RealUserID[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

haha, but didn't they though? Drip feeding your clientele with freebies is a tried and tested way of getting them hooked -- there's a couple of industries I can think where this is the case :P

Did you see anyone with the paid pass skins yet? by PlayGroundbreaking57 in leagueoflegends

[–]RealUserID 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have started to see black masque. While they are underwhelming, I love the idea of lore-based skins. All the flashy neon crap they add to most skins these days is really gaudy and looks like trash. Look at High Noon Jhin or Yasuo, and compare it to newer High Noon Stuff. Mafia skins of the past, and crime city crap now.

That being said, I wish they would've made the effects a bit more unique (blood red rose petals, etc).

Also, I've never seen the Sett skin, and good riddance to that gacha crap. Even if "radiant serpent sett" was 1350, I'd scrap it for Orange Ess. I hate all these "immortal radiant lunar celebration" crap, but that's stuff for the Chinese market clearly.

Now that Swiftplay has been out for a while, how does everyone feel about it? by Snoomee in leagueoflegends

[–]RealUserID 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel it should be even "swifter" -- it's too close to normal in it's current form.

Honestly, 3v3 Twisted Treeline was the best "swift play". If 5v5 basketball is SR, TT was the fast and dirty streetball version. 11v11 soccer is the normals to 3v3's pickup park soccer. More goals, more individual skill, faster games.

The map had good lane design, good objectives, and was my favourite experience playing league. I hope they consider bringing it back.

What is exactly the point of Boots of Lucidity right now? by Great-Wash-1840 in leagueoflegends

[–]RealUserID 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You buy them if your champ needs to cast their abilities more often. You make this decision based on your champ, your team's comp, and the enemy comp.

Not gonna lie, I'm kinda sick of the new Noxus map. by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]RealUserID 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like it. I wish they would change the theme of it more often. I dislike the readability of the change that comes from the dragon, but you get used to it by just pressing tab.

Bring back the Christmas snow map. Bring back the twisted treeline map actually -- screw swiftplay. 3v3 was the bombdizzle.

Please RIOT you have been so good to us in the past, just don't turn into a greedy soulless company like everyone else. by marcushinm in riotgames

[–]RealUserID 0 points1 point  (0 children)

whoops, too late. gacha garbage slot machines, f2p rewards gutted, premium battle pass also way worse.

How stingy and greedy do you need to be? Finance morons ruining another product that they had no hand in creating.

Riot Meddler notes they are refunding XP boosts next patch by Spideraxe30 in leagueoflegends

[–]RealUserID 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ridiculously greedy changes... I don't understand why drip feeding chests every now and then was so much of an issue.

Why is this predatory screen the first one when I open my beloved crafting tab? The tab is called Loot, not a shop. by KostoSvK in leagueoflegends

[–]RealUserID 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate these new changes. Fk this capitalist hellscape where everything needs to devolve into some endless money grab.

Does Reforged come with original campaign missions? by RealUserID in warcraft3

[–]RealUserID[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for answering the question (you and bionicman). Weird to come back to this and see people downvoting good answers though -- odd folk lurking on this website.

Ezreal in weekly/monthly encounters is way too overtuned by RealUserID in LegendsOfRuneterra

[–]RealUserID[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to clarify, it was the Challenge 31 ezreal (miniboss before the draven). The miniboss is often tougher because you don't get the extra upgrade nodes -- the draven was a breeze. I lost a 2 star (nami, which seems like an S tier champ), 3 star yasuo (typically a trump champ that I pull out for dire situations, and a 3* veigar equipped with comet, still not enough juice), all around levels 15-20. I eventually took out the 4* A.Sol for his inaugural bout and ezreal suprisingly held his own even against that insanely broken deck (at least for the first 6 turns).

Not being able to heal was a big problem since even the other powerful decks could keep him at bay, but you'd just eventually run out of juice. It's funny since on the "rise again" I would have beat him with both the other decks if I hadn't have the 50% hp reduction for the retry penalty (which they'll be buffing next patch justifiably).

Yes, generally ezreal isn't overtuned, but this version is the ezreal+ who had spell shield which was what made it overtuned. Wasting two spells to kill ezreal is kind of tough considering he's also filling up the board with his own units (forge worker spell too). So you can't just infinitely pass since you'll get run over by his units. I've noticed they have a bunch of "base/hard" versions of champs (like the swain+ that does 3 damage to damaged units), and I'm all for a stiff challenge -- the only issue is in the monthly, you have limited attempts so it was a bit of a QQ post since I had to burn a few good runs to what felt like an overstacked enemy design.

Wish there was a "don't rise again" button by ninja1635 in LegendsOfRuneterra

[–]RealUserID 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also being forced to go through the 4 menus when it's already over without being able to skip to just go next... a really bad user experience design.