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League of Legends Open Beta Lands on the Mac
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It's not available on the Mac, that's for sure... And if I'm wrong, please feel free to send me a PM telling me what kind of magic I need to get it to work, cause Steam won't let me
Not a huge fan of the game, and I played DOTA back on WC3.
I find it rather one dimensional. It's all micro with very little variance in strategy. The way the meta works everyone plays the same every game... not to mention there's really only one map that's used. I got bored pretty quickly.
When you factor in the (crappy) community.... I'm quite amazed it's as popular as it is.
On the plus side, Riot made out like a bandit with this one -- there's not a lot of a content needed (one map, the same spawns and units, and some champions), so there only needs to be small teams for balancing and introducing new items/champions for the stores. The dev cost should have been much lower than other games, and the F2P model is clearly working for them.
I find it rather one dimensional. It's all micro with very little variance in strategy. The way the meta works everyone plays the same every game... not to mention there's really only one map that's used. I got bored pretty quickly.
When you factor in the (crappy) community.... I'm quite amazed it's as popular as it is.
On the plus side, Riot made out like a bandit with this one -- there's not a lot of a content needed (one map, the same spawns and units, and some champions), so there only needs to be small teams for balancing and introducing new items/champions for the stores. The dev cost should have been much lower than other games, and the F2P model is clearly working for them.
I've only played it in Bootcamp and the fans don't even spin up form idle with 2880x1800, high details and 30 fps lock on a rMBP.
Cool now all the children can get back to their pay2win garbage and hurling abuse at each other.
Most gamers aren't children. Gaming just works by gamer logic. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=gamer+logic&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari#miuv=0
Great.. but not that great...
I have been using the open Beta iLoL from "(http://www.boompje.net/"
Now its greate that they are making native support but
1) the installer is a mess
2) if you manage to get the game installed and run it you will notice this
a) the launcher is ALOT slower than the one from boompje that run a wine emulation as i understand it
b) the game runs ... and then it dont... and then i does.. no wait, trying to reconnect...
if you dont know LoL its worth trying.. and free to play
you can get a small bonus at level 5 if you use this signup
I have been using the open Beta iLoL from "(http://www.boompje.net/"
Now its greate that they are making native support but
1) the installer is a mess
2) if you manage to get the game installed and run it you will notice this
a) the launcher is ALOT slower than the one from boompje that run a wine emulation as i understand it
b) the game runs ... and then it dont... and then i does.. no wait, trying to reconnect...
if you dont know LoL its worth trying.. and free to play
you can get a small bonus at level 5 if you use this signup
Somehow I think your claim that it is 'the most played video game' is a bit exaggerated.
OK... I stand corrected: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngau...lly-becomes-most-played-pc-game-in-the-world/
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30fps is fast enough for any game. Your eyes only see at 30fps anyway.
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I've been playing this on my retina MacBook Pro but I'm looking to buy Mac mini for daily tasks just wondering if this runs smoothly on Mac mini. (FPS) wise.
