Running the "League of Legends" client on Mac OS X
My kids've been pestering me because they wanted to play "League of Legends" on my old Mac for quite some time now. So I thought "Let's download the client and run it - shouldn't take more than a few minutes".
Boy, was I wrong.
On startup (after completing the usual registration process), the client started downloading a whopping 2GB of data. I thought "Oookay. Apparently, they've done a major upgrade right now. So we'll download this once and then we can run it".
Boy, was I wrong.
After the download was finished and we restarted the client, it started downloading another 1GB. I thought "This is getting ridiculous, but what the heck. Surely, this will be the final download".
Boy, was I wrong.
After successfully downloading it and restarting the client, IT STARTED DOWNLOADING AGAIN. WTF?
Now I started thinking (I know, I should have done more of that in the first place...).
Was it possible that in 2015, a game could still require an Administrator account to run properly?
For testing purposes, I logged in using my own (Administrator) account, re-downloaded the installer, went through the initial 2GB download, restarted it, and lo and behold - it worked!
But since giving the kids access to my account is a big no-go, I bit the bullet and
- transferred ownership of the game to them: chown -R
- told them that whenever the game tries to upgrade itself and fails, they should call me
IMO, this is totally unacceptable. Either the people at Riot Games (the makers of League of Legends) are completely incompetent or just incredibly lazy. Either way, this sucks.