I did? Again, you're not doing 'so many little things' every second of the game. In the 6 minutes that dragon is dead, you'll have a spare second of standing around or traveling across the map to check a timestamp.
If it's such a big play difference between someone doing timers on their own and someone who isn't what difference does it make if it's Riot providing the information or a 3rd party? How does the source of the information determine your objection to it?
It's strange that Riot doesn't just implement it as part of the client. Many people will not know about Curse Voice and it is yet another piece of software one has to install on their machine and have running in the background. I mean it's not a big deal but it's not something everyone automatically has or even knows about. It's just a little weird.
Dude, there's timers that ALREADY DO THIS. They've been around since the game was made. People are freaking out over CurseVoice when there have been timers that track every buff for a long time. No one has given a shit until Curse put their name on it, and now everyone is freaking out. That's what I don't really get.
And what do 'Tournament' rules have to do with this conversation? Of course they aren't going to let you use 3rd party programs in any tournament event.
I'm sorry you can't have a civil conversation. The reason you're remembered for that is because you're pretty well known for shitting up this thread whenever you decide to lose interest in any discussion.
Basically, as the The Ancient pointed out - why does it matter if something allowed comes from Riot or from a different app? How does that change how you feel about timers?
Agree 100%. But I don't see how that justifies banning CurseVoice while they work on their own solution.
Actually, it seems pretty straightforward why a 3rd party app vs riot providing it is a problem. Because it makes the third party app mandatory to stay on even footing, and that's something a lot of players aren't aware of even? If riot provides it in the client, then 100% of people will have access to it. Curse voice was a beta program that didn't even have keys for everyone, as of late they've been spamming more. Once it's in Open beta, then anyone who KNOWS about it can get access, but that's still not everyone. Riot should add the timers in the UI if they're cool with it, same with ALLY CD's (imo the bigger deal). It takes time to ask people what time on ult, and for them to respond, IF they even do, if they speak english.. all kinds of communication that you can skip over freely by seeing the timer on those things. That helps A LOT and you're like downplaying it or something? Hell, curse's VOIP is a pretty big boost already to a team if they're using it. Also, i'm not really sure why you point out there have been other timers in the past.. at least you have to press a button and interact with some of those. In addition, I guarantee they weren't as widespread as curse voice is - so less exposure = less people bitching about it.
A LOT. PoE devs mentioned once how only 1/3rd of their player base uses a 64 bit OS. LoL is probably worse since it caters more to the casual crowd. I remember meeting my brother's wife (an avid LoL player) and feeling almost sick watching her play LoL on an ancient HP laptop using its touchpad.
Well you wouldn't need to add visual cues or actual physical timers per se. There is scientific evidence that humans have faster reaction times and are more likely to notice audible cues over visual so all you really need is a voiceover that says "Dragon is respawning in 30 seconds".
I've never done that matchup myself to be honest, but to be fair I'd expect Soraka to dumpster Ziggs. Between the silence, the MR shred, her pushing power, and sustain, she's a bitch to lane as a caster. The soraka's I've laned go beefy/mr and just push like crazy, silencing your ass if you get close. Doesn't excuse the ragequit behavior of course, but I would have asked someone to lane swap with him.
