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I\u2019ve been playing a lot of\u00a0Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/em>\u00a0over the last few months, playing on a PvE server, having a grand old time leisurely questing and amusing myself over how I can take a Sith Warrior and be as Dark Side as possible, and currently, taking a Jedi Consular, and, being as Dark Side as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n I made a \u201cjoking\u201d remark that as a result of playing SWTOR instead of\u00a0League of Legends\u00a0<\/em>as much, I\u2019ve been generally a calmer, more relaxed and less stressed out person over this span of time.<\/span><\/p>\n Well, all that\u2019s recently come a crashing end, because I\u2019m like 4-8 in my recent history of matches, and with each tragic loss on account of my own shortcomings and\/or someone else\u2019s, I\u2019m left feeling dejected, disappointed and wondering why I even love this game so much in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of the games was one of those miserable ARAM games where my team wasn\u2019t a terrible draw of randomly selected characters, but the other team was a nightmare team from hell that had a Morgana, Ashe, Veigar, Vel\u2019Koz and a Ryze; mostly champions who could sit back from a safe distance, pelt you with ranged attacks and whittle you down and away, before taking objectives.\u00a0 Needless to say, I lost that game, but it was during this game did I realize that something was not right, in-game.<\/span><\/p>\n Contrary to the vast majority of LoL players, I play League with a locked camera.\u00a0\u00a0Yes<\/em>, I can hear anyone reading this opening the barn and trotting their high horse out of the stable to tell me how inferior of a player I am for doing this to myself, and honestly in this matter, I don\u2019t particularly fucking care what you think.\u00a0 I play with a locked camera, because it\u2019s how I feel the most comfortable, and when I\u2019m comfortable I feel that I can play the most effective.<\/span><\/p>\n Believe me, I\u2019ve heard it all to why this is a reason why I am only as good as I am, will never improve, and how I\u2019m only doing a disservice to myself.\u00a0 I obviously lack map awareness, the ability to accurately global skill shot or teleport, and will never become a competent jungler, because I play on a locked camera, and not because I don\u2019t dedicate hours and hours to practicing to improve myself.<\/span><\/p>\n The vast majority of people out there drive automatic transmission cars.\u00a0 Almost everyone I know drives an automatic car.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure I don\u2019t need more than two hands to name off the people that I know that can drive a stick shift.<\/span><\/p>\n The automatic transmission is the locked camera.\u00a0 It\u2019s how League by default introduces the game for\u00a0 new players, when you first play the tutorial modes, learning how to last-hit minions, take towers, and kill enemy champions with Ashe on the Howling Abyss.<\/span><\/p>\n When players spread their wings and fly, the vast majority of them are taught to unlock their cameras, and to control the game map on their own.\u00a0 This is akin to learning how to drive a stick shift; for some, it comes easier than it does others, but with enough practice, anyone can learn how to manage it, and on a long enough timeline, it might become second nature and the primary means of playing the game.<\/span><\/p>\n I know this analogy is a little wonky, because when it comes to cars, I\u2019m actually a stick shift driver, but when it comes to its application to League, I\u2019m very much an automatic transmission player.<\/span><\/p>\n I never had that teaching or explanation that the unlocked camera was god almighty and the only way that the game should be played.\u00a0 So I never did.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been playing since late season 1, and played thousands of games between Summoner\u2019s Rift, ARAM and even some Dominion, all with a locked camera.<\/span><\/p>\n Not lost on me was the fact that by being a locked camera player, I had one prevalent weakness (among all my other shortcomings); when on red side, I simply received less visual information than my blue side counterparts, because LoL is played from a part-bird\u2019s eye\/part-isometric perspective, where by virtual of viewing angle, the blue side sees more than the red side at any given point.\u00a0 This meant that I had a tougher time dodging skill shots than players with unlocked cameras, because they can compensate for the lesser vision by adjusting their view to where they can see the opponents better.\u00a0 With better vision comes more time to anticipate, adjust and dodge better than the amount of vision that I have with a locked camera.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve tried to play with an unlocked camera, to tragic results.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have the wrist dexterity to be flicking the camera back and forth to comfortable positions, while subsequently playing the macro games of farming creeps, harassing the enemies, while trying to keep tabs on potential ganks.<\/span><\/p>\n Imagine learning how to drive a stick shift; in an empty parking lot it seems feasible and even easy, but when you\u2019re put into a situation where you\u2019re stuck in traffic adverse weather conditions, or an extremely crowded road.\u00a0 Most people, if they had the ability to magically convert their car from manual to automatic with the press of a button, they\u2019d probably do it, so that they can maximize their comfort to overcome immediate adversity.\u00a0 That\u2019s me.<\/span><\/p>\n Somewhere along the line, Riot Games got wind that not every single player was comfortable playing with a stick shift, and introduced the\u00a0Per-Side Offset Locked Camera<\/strong>, for automatic drivers.\u00a0 Long story short, it was a locked camera perspective that off-centered the player a little bit, depending on if they were blue side\/red side.\u00a0 Sure, this meant that blue side players got even more visual information, but it also meant that it helped mitigate the biggest weakness for red side players, the diminished amount of vision, in comparison to the blue side.<\/span><\/p>\n With this feature, I genuinely felt that playing on the red side was substantially improved than before.\u00a0 With the slightly increased amount of vision I had, I could better see a Nidalee getting into position to spam a spear toss, I could keep an eye out on the Thresh or Blitzcrank trying to sneak into a bush to attempt a hook or grab, and I wasn\u2019t getting pelted by every single skill shot that I couldn\u2019t really see coming.<\/span><\/p>\n In the aforementioned game against the nightmare team that I tragically lost, I was getting nailed by everything.\u00a0 Morgana was hitting her binds, every Ashe volley just barely managed to connect, and I wasn\u2019t seeing where Vel\u2019Koz\u2019s Qs were coming from.\u00a0 During one of the 10+ times I died and was waiting for respond, I wondered, \u201cis Per-Side Offset<\/em>\u201d turned on?\u00a0 I mean, it had been a while, and I had caught up from nearly two patches ago, so it wouldn\u2019t be out of the ordinary for some settings to have reset themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n So I toggled the perspective modes back and forth, and discovered that there was no change at all.\u00a0 After I died yet again, I alt-tabbed out of the game, and quickly googled \u201cPer-Side Offset League not working,\u201d and noticed quite a number of hits from Leagueoflegends.com and Reddit, of threads of a similar problem.\u00a0 After the game mercifully ended, I delved into the threads and\u00a0got confirmation of what I pretty much already figured out<\/a>\u00a0– Per-Side Offset was no longer working.<\/span><\/p>\n To cut to the chase, in the particular thread that I\u2019ve linked to, it\u2019s very obvious that I\u2019m not the only primary locked-camera player in the world, that there are quite a good bit of people who do it as well, and that the thread (at this time)\u00a0is over 10 days old, and has not been fixed<\/strong>.\u00a0 Subsequently, there is a lot of resentment towards Riot for not fixing the problem, and my favorite, all the accusations that \u201cRito\u201d prioritizes superficial, short-term profit-making affairs like skin sales and champion releases, over the functionality of their cash cow, and the general satisfaction of their dedicated user base.<\/span><\/p>\n Imagine being told that there was a critical flaw in all automatic transmission vehicles.\u00a0 All automatic cars would have diminished gas mileage, and the defrosters would require twice as much time to work.\u00a0 And that it would probably be best if you just switched to a manual transmission and go learn to cope with it.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s kind of how I think all of this whole situation feels like.\u00a0 Riot really doesn\u2019t care that much about a niche minority of their user base, as indicative of their dragging their feet in regards to fixing it.\u00a0 Angry users aren\u2019t off-base with their accusations, because it\u2019s true, if there\u2019s a problem with anything in regards to microtransactions, Riot will make a hot-fix on the spot.\u00a0 If an item is broken, because an algorithm of ability power times base-level AP increase plus 30% increase from Rabadon\u2019s Deathcap divided by magic penetration is off by two-hundredths, and Korean professionals are exploiting it in game, it will be fixed immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n But fixing a camera perspective takes over 10 days to resolve?\u00a0 That\u2019s not cool, and that\u2019s not right.\u00a0 Locked camera users may be a substantial minority in the grand spectrum of the League player base, but we\u2019re no less passionate and involved with the game\u2019s landscape than everyone else driving around in stick shift cars.\u00a0 Blatantly de-prioritizing any subset of a populous, because it\u2019s a minority one is disheartening and discouraging, 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