Sad news for MOBA fans, as Riot has confirmed that LoL will not be heading to other platforms. It is a little confusing as always, since they say that dreaded "Mac and PC", but presumably they mean Mac and Windows. The optimist in me would think "hey maybe they mean Linux when they say PC", but I highly doubt it.
QuoteToday’s announcement mentioning League of Legends has generated a lot of speculation in the LoL player community. We’d like to clarify that our focus is on making sure League plays great on Mac and PC. No plans for console, mobile or other platforms at this time
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I have never played LoL, so I don't know what it is like at all, but I know there's quite a few fans of it around these parts.
I was a massive Dota 2 fan a year ago, but there are so many better things to do with your time than get angry at random people. I do see why people love games like LoL and Dota 2 though, as if you can gather an actual team of people you know, then it's pretty fun, but it still doesn't stop an enemy team from rage quitting or being arseholes.
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The usual 'Mac first' scam. If only FreeBSD had used the GPL licence we would be much better off now (no more Mac! :p).
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Well, if we are to be pedantic even Macs are PCs these days.
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Well, if we are to be pedantic even Macs are PCs these days.Yeah, this is pretty much my point, but it's a dead argument as most developers don't really care about their terminology, it just annoys me with announcements like this, as it just confuses matters.
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Avehicle7887 23 Mar 2015
I really hate it when they refer to Windows when they say "PC", it's kinda ironic from my point of view. These days Windows restricts the user in so many different ways that you can hardly call your computer "Personal".
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stopped to care about this game some years ago, all that huge comunity explosion totally ruined the pro part of the game for me.
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No loss. Just play Dota, it's better anyway.
Or HoN, which is also a Linux supporting moba and was also a better game than LoL, it's just kinda ded at this point.
Or HoN, which is also a Linux supporting moba and was also a better game than LoL, it's just kinda ded at this point.
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No loss. Just play Dota, it's better anyway.
Or HoN, which is also a Linux supporting moba and was also a better game than LoL, it's just kinda ded at this point.
S2 Games is focusing on Strife anyway, which is a nice alternate to LoL. I highly recommend anyone who is a fan of Dota style games to try Strife out.
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TOME: Immortal Arena is another nice little Free MOBA 2 lane style game on Steam, with a Native Linux client. Check it out.
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Damnnn. Well I'll never buy anything from them but all my friends prefer this game so... Damn.
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Well good thing we have dota 2 then, far more polished and all heroes are free.
As for ragequitting, that is only in nonranked matches, in ranked you get penalty.
its just like in cs go you get to play with all the jerks until you rank up, then things get more serious
As for ragequitting, that is only in nonranked matches, in ranked you get penalty.
its just like in cs go you get to play with all the jerks until you rank up, then things get more serious
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Kimyrielle 23 Mar 2015
I installed LoL a while back, but lasted in that game for like an hour before its utterly immature community got to me. It's just too unfriendly for my taste (I belong to the camp that doesn't think trash-talk and insults are ok just because it's the internet). So yeah, they can keep their game. No big loss.
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eigensinnig 23 Mar 2015
As others have said here, this MOBA genre has a lot of top quality representatives in linux, so it is not at all important that this particular game is not coming to us.
Alternatives that I know of:
* Dota 2
* Strife
* Heroes of Newerth
* Awesomenauts
* Tome: immortal arena
Alternatives that I know of:
* Dota 2
* Strife
* Heroes of Newerth
* Awesomenauts
* Tome: immortal arena
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It's not so much the fact that there are alternatives in the MOBA space.....it's just that Riot's attitude really sucks. :p Why not utilize eON VP and get this done with. :) Just so you guys know, the performance on the Mac client is quite abysmal...so it's pretty much Windows only if you want the "proper" experience.
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1 big reason why LoL won't come to Linux is, that its Launcher makes heavy use of Adobe AIR, which dropped Linux Support quite a while ago. So, in order for it to be portable to linux, they would have to create a whole new client. it's sad, really. With the OSX-Port, the game already runs on OpenGL (and you can change some config file in the windows-version to use OpenGL).
Oh well, LoL runs quite okay-ish in WINE & I am a Dota 2 fan anyway. We got enough MOBA's in linux...
Dota 2, Heroes of Newerth, Strife, ...
Just not the most popular one :S
Oh well, LoL runs quite okay-ish in WINE & I am a Dota 2 fan anyway. We got enough MOBA's in linux...
Dota 2, Heroes of Newerth, Strife, ...
Just not the most popular one :S
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