Anecdotal evidence is hearsay--basically making a claim unsubstantiated by facts/statistics/"professional" quotes. It relies on the ethos (credibility) of the person making the claim, and since we're both blindly making claims I am asking him to show me that he is as experienced or more experienced in these games, which would mean his opinion carries more weight (as he has more experience in the field).

This.

Ok so were are back at LoL being a vastly inferior game due to your opinion on its community.
The community that it shares with literally every moba game.
Good job with the fancy wordplay though. Guess you had to at least try to look intelligent.

oh. thanks.

who posted this thread, that son of a bitch...

LoL does not share the same community with every other MOBA. The majority of LoL players do not play other MOBAs, or we would see a significantly higher population on other MOBAs. Further, MOBAs tend to have very partisan communities--you will very rarely see people playing DotA 2 and League of Legends with any real frequency. It is often primarily one or the other. Of course I can't speak for HoN, since I've played it a total of one time and have no interaction with the HoN community.

If you don't believe either of those statements, feel free to make polls on both the DotA 2 and LoL subforums asking what MOBAs members consider themselves to be regularly playing. For game populations, a simple Google search will find the numbers.

The community is merely the first of many talking points I have against League, but it is a major hurdle. If you can't get around this major issue (and pretty much everyone, including Riot, agrees that this is a major problem with League of Legneds), there's no point in going into further issues.

Finally, I am not using fancy wordplay. This is how I talk on a day to day basis.

Now that I've thoroughly dismantled your attempts at sidestepping my first argument, perhaps you'd like to try a different approach?

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Have you not been to battle.net ? Holy shit, the SC2 community is filled with bronze balance whining morons who have never been to blame for a single loss...oh shit that sounds like jsp too

Every game community has morons but that doesn't mean it's the entire community. I browse the GD of LoL forums sometimes, it's got a lot of funny posters and the LoL reddit is actually somewhat mature as well. I have to assume you're basing your opinions of the community off of the people in game. If that's the case, I do agree that people in game are pretty toxic but it's like that with any team game.

No one ever takes responsibility for their mistakes and it's always someone else's fault. It's hella annoying, I know. But, to an extent, it's the same exact thing in SC2. How many low level games have you been in when someone rages at the end "fucking terran, stupid race u suck" ? I would actually argue that since I've gotten higher MMR in LoL, the toxic players have all but nearly disappeared. Almost every game I play now is with good players who are having a good time, in SC2 even at the top of GM you have to deal with people flaming at the end of 60% of your games.

But when you make a claim of "LoL is a vastly inferior game" and people ask you why...you can't respond with "because of the people who play it". You said the game itself is inferior, arguing about who plays it is irrelevant. You could say "the game is good, I just don't enjoy it because of those who play it", "the game is trash and those who play it make it worse", or "the game is trash but I enjoy the community". They are separate, you can't say the game is bad BECAUSE the community is bad.

This post was edited by lovestory on Jul 7 2013 01:57pm

LoL is better than SC2

1. creeps can be denied
2. wards are limited
3. u cant buy an item that provides a second life OR an aegis from the shop
4. u lose gold when u die


all these things lead to harder mechanics and much more needed map awareness

have a nice day

This post was edited by FTD on Jul 7 2013 02:33pm