new to the community

nullpixels · #1 September 24th, 2005, 07:55 PM

Hi, I'm new to LoL and just wanted to introduce myself to the community. I found this game in a tucked away corner of gamespot, downloaded the demo, and played the crap out of it. Now I just have to wait until my full copy gets delivered.

I really hope this game does well, because the design seems truly worthwhile and you gotta support the indie games. See you all online.

Sammas · #2 September 25th, 2005, 01:36 AM

Yeap, just waiting for my full copy too. Hope we can get a few games in.

nullpixels · #3 September 25th, 2005, 04:30 AM

Yeah, I'm really wondering what the online play is going to be like, and looking forward to the figuring out all the differences in the races. I wonder how easy it is to find an online game, or if you have to schedule them in the forums before hand.

Sammas · #4 September 25th, 2005, 06:21 AM

Apparently the game has a built in lobby for online play - so I'd imagine it won't be too hard to find opponents.

Hiro_Antagonist · #5 September 25th, 2005, 11:59 AM

Yeah, we spent a lot of time on the online lobby, trying to make it as easy for our customers (and us!) to find and start games against online opponents.

The one thing I'm worried about is critical mass -- i.e. if we can't get to a point where at least a couple of people are hanging out in the lobby at pretty much all times, then people will log on, see nobody else is logged in, and then log off.

Especially right now when the game is relatively new, you might have to camp out in the lobby a little while to find an opponent, but if you play in windowed mode and alt-tab, you can be doing other things while waiting...

Hopefully we'll eventually get enough people that own the game and like playing online that finding opponents will be much easier.

-Hiro_Antagonist

Hells_Kitchen_Gamer · #6 September 25th, 2005, 11:35 PM

I'm in the lobby, but it's empty. Where are the people?

In the future, it would be better if people were ranked based on whether they win or lose they way it's done if you're playing Yahoo Chess for example. This would make every game important and also ensure that you play against people of your own skill level.

Of course, right now, I'd settle for there being just one person.