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RIOT GAMES WORKING TO IMPROVE GAME CLIENT

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No game is without its issues, and League of Legends is no different. Riot Games is more than aware of the game client’s shortcomings, and recently made the announcement that they would be starting a six-month campaign to improve the client experience. This initiative has been named the “Client Cleanup Campaign.”

What the campaign is focusing on: There are two main tasks that Riot will be focusing on, namely booting up and locking in a selected champion. The developers want the client to take no more than 15 seconds to boot up and become usable. However, many players experience delays of up to a minute before access to all functionality is established. As for locking in problems, there is something of a delay experienced between clicking the “Lock In” button and an actual lock-in occurring. The typical wait is around 300 milliseconds (with some extraneous waits of up to 800 milliseconds), which Riot thinks is too high.

More to say on the subject: Not only will developers be focusing on these two issues, but they’ll also be working to address the myriad additional bugs and problems many players constantly face when trying to play League of Legends. The developers explained further, “The reason is that, in the process of addressing bootstrap time and champ select lock-in time, we’re going to be cleaning up and reworking certain fundamental aspects of the client’s architecture. We believe that we’ll be able to opportunistically address bugs, memory leaks, and crashes while pursuing these targets.”

It may take longer than six months to address some of these issues. But at least we can rest easy knowing that Riot Games is on a bug-attack strategy.


Ryan Goodrich

Ryan has been writing since long before he could even write. He's written resumes, software user guides, consumer electronic reviews, and myriad web content spanning a variety of industries. But now he's writing about video games, which is much more interesting.

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