He is solid, but the longer a game goes the less useful he gets because he dies so damn fast with his play style. Also because he only plays Karthus we have to build our team around Karthus every time we play with him. If we don’t pick heroes that compliment Karthus than we are fucked every time.
The trouble with Karthus is they tend to rely on their ult and as soon as people get banshees then that pretty much makes his ult useless.
Karthus is not my fav champ to have a team mate pick :(
copet
4502
If he got Zhonya’s as Karthas, he would be 10x more useful. Sure, they will jump on him regardless, but he doesn’t have to make it easy. Make them go through our tanks, or kite them, or run in and Zhonya’s. Don’t just run in before anyone else on our team and DIE!
Pogo
4503
Yeah. Hands down the most oppressive and fearful Karthuses I’ve played against had Zonyas. All of them.
I’ve been on pretty much every night, although mainly just jumping into a normal game or two. I actually had a whole mess of folks over at my house playing the other night on all six computers, but I never got a chance to have a game myself. I guess evangelizing doesn’t really count as playing.
-Tom
As ‘tomchick’ on US?
EDIT: you should definitely always hop on mumble if you’re up for a game. It’s a lot more fun with friends and voice.
idrisz
4506
why are you guys complaining to me, just tell him over mumble, I told him this already.
Ah apologies then, I’m probably missing you because your West Coast and I haven’t been on super late recently :)
Pogo
4508
I’m guessing Tom declined my friend request from both my accounts :(
Chequers, yep, I’m on as tomchick. Pogo, I haven’t declined any friends requests! I don’t think this is like the limited Xbox Live list where you have to play Sophie’s choice with your friends.
-Tom
bluemax
4510
I think there might be a limit, but its so ridiculously high that only the celebrity players will ever cap out. I could be wrong though.
Because he doesn’t listen to us? Its not like I didn’t tell him I disagreed with his strategy in the game last night. Therlun and I were both telling him to buy some survivability and to stop throwing himself into the middle of the enemy team. I like helping people and talking about builds and learning from others even, but when someone is willfully ignorant like that it just drives me mad.
idrisz
4511
sorry, I hit my cap, I had to remove you from friendlist blue max.
TheJare
4512
During its history, Riot Games raised $18 million in two venture rounds and one angel round. It has more than 150 employees and has 100 open jobs now. Not bad for a company that has only one published game.
I’m truly very very happy for the Riot people, but jesus, what kind of money were they making with LoL?
Enidigm
4513
I just did the math.
To buy everything (i mean everything) that LoL offers, in cash, would cost about 5,425$. More or less.
I hate to say it, but this does have a great deal of Magic the Gathering appeal for the young set. I can’t imagine wanting to invest time in a game that blocks out most of the content from me (this includes Magic, Warhammer, ect), but if you’re a youngster (<= college), whose income is by nature completely disposable, i can see the draw of dropping 100-300$ on various content online over the months. Making heroes and runes more valuable increases their sense of ownership and gives players a stronger sense of individuality, even moreso than in a typical MMO. And, like picking Magic cards (or at least i assume this is so, i never played it) you never really know what you’re going to get when you buy a new character, and whether that character is what you’re looking for or not. I guess Wikis and playing helps enormously to give you some idea, but you’re still buying “blind”.
Still shocks me how much they borrowed from Warcraft 3 though. At least Demigod took the genre in it’s own direction. LoL IS Warcraft 3, even in animation, unit responses, art style, ect.
Actually you’ll never play “blind”, because their is a rotation of free heroes that changes every week. That way you get to try every hero in the game eventually so you get to decide what to spend your money on. You can also quite realistically get a lot of them for absolutely free.
I was chatting with a friend about this recently though. To raise that kind of money Riot must have had to originally pitch this as a entirely monetized operation. As in they went in to this with a plan on how to make a lot of money rather then how to create a well balanced competitive game. It’s why, now that they are making ridiculous money as planned, they are investing so much in hiring experienced balance designers, etc.
Enidigm
4515
Yea, give them all the credit, it’s CounterStrike again, but x100. They saw the market for it, they hit it square on the nose. Other companies have been trying to hit the DoTA market and have been missing it very, very wide. The DoTA guys are mostly young, half asian, with a particular western anime aesthetic and a desire for hyper competitive, over-complex gameplay relationships.
Demigod, with it’s 8 heroes, slow gameplay, and poor network response, was dead in the water. LoL is very responsive online, very clean. (Like DotA was/is in Warcraft 3, of course).
Feh. I tried. Was fun, but I can’t deal with the player community. Someone in a game I was playing was doing poorly and said he was ready to ragequit.
Teammate: “Good. GTFO. Maybe then we’ll start winning.”
Banzai
4518
I’ve spent nothing on it and have been playing regularly since last April. I’ll probably spring for a few choice skins eventually. It really can be a free to play game with an even field.
Pogo
4519
Yeah that should be interesting. Bots now can actually kick some ass, and actually provide decent learning material for new players that think they can harass right off the bat without the proper laning champ combo and skills.
Gonna be honest, that’s pretty much my reaction to any baby that threatens to rage quit in a game. It’s like what, you want me to beg you to keep playing? No fuck you, not only are you awful but now your going to royally fuck us? You honestly are better playing a 4v5 then playing with some asshole QQing at your team for his mistakes. It’s the classic “I’m taking my ball and I’m going home” syndrome.
Also what’s your ign? There’s plenty of us that would be happy to play with you :)
