User blog comment:Typhron/A Revision of a Critique of the League of Legends/@comment-65.129.41.103-20130115114050/@comment-189.111.82.17-20130115191242

I also play LoL and Dota 2, and I gotta tell you, as much as LoL has it's flaws, I am really disappointed with Valve. I mean, the game is in beta for over a year, they are currently adding heroes at like 1/month rate, which is ridiculously slow, there is no ladder, no visible MMR (and the only possible reason for this is to appease the casuals), they choose not to add fun modes (like AR) for no apparent reason, there is a really poor communication with the public (if you ever go to dev.dota2.com you can see how shitty it is), they pretty much give 0 information in their own goddamn forums, no LAN (if you saw the G-league semi-finals you should know how much it is needed, people were playing 5 feet from each other with 150~200ms ping). The list could go on and on, it's like it will never come out of beta.

Anyway, I know they want a quality product, and I know it takes time, but it's getting to the point of being just absurd, they could at least give some info, the way they are doing things just looks that they just don't care.

As for LoL, in some ways it's still a young game, usually balancing and pruning takes some time. Dota took a lot of time to be refined, SC wasn't really all that good (imo), but BW was great. The only thing I can never forgive LoL is the fact that you can buy a champion (for money even), and they can just nerf him to the ground afterwards, sometimes making him unplayable really. That is absurd, you can't charge money and destroy the champs, flushing people's money (or effort in case of IP) down the drain, just make them all available and make your money through skins. The way it is  now is just not ethical imo.