Ummm, hello! Yeah, 'detrimental' in a way that FAR exceeds any supposed gain...really I don't know how people could be so stupid, but at least consumers in the FREE MARKET, still alive and kicking, are not dumb enough to support or even stand for such childish behavior.
Woo hoo! ...Even still the news may be dampened by the fact that there was no comment from Nintendo which might as well mean they were too busy plunging into economic analyses and/or quickly patching their ostensible loss...
On the subject of 'orphaned concepts', do they realize how ironic this is since the M-content has left what might have been a perfectly good game concept reeking and festering in the Sewers of Corrupted Creations?
Am I the only one that isn't filling my hat with tears over this bad idea which will not be brought to light? I don't see why the current mechanics wouldn't be sufficient for whatever 'online' features this would have boasted...
Silly Asians, don't they know that League of Legends doesn't allow for a full RPG or even ARPG experience?? It's not possible to be 'assassins' even preferentially, at best they would be square-grid-of-a-map thugs...'Assassins' can't be executed meaningfully without RPG elements, as Guild Wars showed us so painfully...
...Actually, I'm not a gamer, I am only a game enthusiast, I take back what I said before. I don't play addictive fee-manacled mmos, I don't play evilly-addictive online-only dungeon crawls, I don't play murder sims and don't tolerate pornography. I don't insist on nauseatingly realistic shooting sims and I don't lose jobs to play games with M-ratings or any other. That's just me. I just play games to enjoy them...
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