League of Legends General Discussion Thread

[spellman]

Did anyone else just randomly get a IP Boost for 10 wins?

[UberTri]

Did anyone else just randomly get a IP Boost for 10 wins?

Yep, I think I got mine during this weekend. Sure is sweet to get more "free" IP. :D

[Tyrmith]

Riot gave it to everyone as an apology for the server problems after the hecarem patch.

[Krill]

Spectator mode is pretty damned good. But does anyone know how to keep a fullscreen LoL game up whilst working on a second screen?

[Sir Bruce]

Change the window size from Fullscreen to Borderless Windows in the graphics options menu.

And spectator mode is pretty great - the directed camera is surprisingly good and the ability to rewind and slow things down is great (and about damn time). The one thing I don't like is that the Adobe Air client is unavailable while spectating, or at least I couldn't make it work.

[VoiceOfUnreason]

What's the capacity of spectator mode? Are we going to see at dramatic drop in stream viewers?

Can spectators communicate with each other?

[Tyrmith]

I love how fast you can switch around in time. You can go from 15:00 to 0:30 and then 30:00 with basically no lag at all. Could be cool if it means Sullla can instant replay team fights and go "this is what this character did wrong in the team fight, this is where Renekton attacked the wrong guy."

The guided mode is suprisingly good as well. Even if it doesn't get everything for just being an algorithm it's not bad at all. All it needs is to shout "tons of damage!" during a teamfight and Phreak is out of a casting job!

Really the only significant thing that I don't like is that you can't spectate tournament realm games as far as I can tell.

Also interesting statistics compairison to MLB in their Season 2 championship announcement (though revenue/person is much lower I'm sure):

[Sullla]

I've been experimenting with Spectator Mode today, it definitely has some nice features. Best of all is probably just avoiding the need to get everyone into a custom game to use the spectating feature; the ability to click on your friends list and instantly watch a game makes things enormously easier. Official replays using this mode have to be in the works soon, right?

That comparison graphic isn't particularly fair either. Riot is taking the total number of unique viewers across 3-4 days of competition (about 30 total hours of streaming content) and adding them all together, then comparing the number to a single television broadcast. A baseball broadcast also isn't nearly as popular as an American football broadcast, and an ESPN national one wouldn't even include the local markets (where the game would be blacked out by local coverage). It's nice and all, but let's not get carried away. Those are extremely deceptive numbers. The actual number of people watching those tournament streams was usually around 100-200k, and while that is indeed impressive, it's nowhere close to traditional sports yet. Maybe in another decade...

[Tyrmith]

Another way they could be distorting it is counting the number of people who watch the online MLB stream, not television (which is pay only, so very different).

One thing I've noticed is that AD's haven't been running cleanse much, didn't that used to be FOTM? Will that come back into favor with the heal nerf you guys think?

[SleepingMoogle]

It may become more fashionable again now that Heal is nerfed.