So yeah, I'm playing League of Legends every day. I'm starting to get decent with Sejuni and am passable with a few other champions. As a designer, I'm really interested in this game, not least of which is because I cannot intellectually rationalize WHY it is so addictive.
On the surface, the game seems to throw out almost everything we've learned about usability over the last decade. The community is unfriendly, the front end is obtuse, the learning curve is just plain brutal, and it seems to be highly intolerant of low bandwidth connections. It's not part of any social network, and it exists only on one platform. It doesn't seem a particularly fresh take on what DoTA had already done, and I can't off-hand tell you why it's better than Heroes of Newerth.
And yet, unless you've been living in a nuclear bunker somewhere, you may have noticed that League of Legends is terrifically successful. And, oh yeah, it's incredibly addictive. Why?
Discuss.
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