Talk:Vi/@comment-3238314-20121214132612/@comment-50.53.139.17-20121215025218

Shaw Fujikawa--

You are proof that it is possible to maintain civility in an argument. In fact, the majority of the registered users on here don't seem to resort to attacking the individual but rather the argument. Rapacious, on the other hand, is a stark contrast to this trend and as he has proven with his most recent post is unable to provide an argument without personal attacks. As such, Rapacious, I will no longer continue this debate with you. You can tell yourself you've won or whatever, I don't really care. Your childish antics are no longer my concern. I would've been happy to answer your argumentation but I don't have to put up with insults at the same time. If I had to guess why you act so offensively it's probably because you associate this game with yourself and so if the game gets attacked you feel attacked. I'm not your therapist so I won't diagnose you but that appears to me to be the case.

To answer your question, I imagine that the reason Riot doesn't only release OP champions is two-fold: one, it would be obvious and would probably irritate the user base far more. It would become predictable and might cause a backlash. Two, they don't always know whether or not they're releasing an OP champ because sometimes it's really unexpected how they'll fare because their design is too bizarre or unique (Viktor and Xerath come to mind). In these cases if they erred on the side of too much power then they could be ridiculously overpowered and piss everyone off. Again, I'm just speculating. I don't really know for sure. But I have noticed that in cases where the champion is obvious in design (like Darius or Graves), they are almost always released in a more powerful than average state and almost always receive subsequent nerfs. I believe this is even more inexcusable because since their kit is so obvious it should be very easy to balance against the rest of the game but Riot seems to prefer to release them consistently too strong.

I could be wrong about all of this - this is just my skepticism of every company (including Riot) mixed with the current atmosphere of online microtransaction games. Perhaps Riot is totally innocent and what I'm seeing are just coincidences.