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by swiley 2251 days ago
League of legends is a real pain in the ass to play even when you’re doing everything right. Personally I don’t even like the game, it’s just popular so I played it to hang out with friends. The way their launcher handles updates is crazy inefficient and so it always takes hours to launch if it launches at all. It also runs terribly in wine.
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judge2020 2251 days ago
They recently improved their updater: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/supercharging-data-del...
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danaris 2251 days ago
...Hours? The longest update I've ever had for League of Legends (in the ~6 years I've been playing casually) is about 20 minutes. And I'm on Mac—not exactly the high-priority platform for them.

Since they changed their launcher system a few months ago, it's been unusual to have to wait more than ~2 minutes for a new patch.

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swiley 2249 days ago
That's true if you update often.

If you're like me and only played occasionally the updates would build up and take very long.

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