I've seen so many amazing concepts on the boards over the years but none of them seem to get noticed

AgeOfTheMage·2/1/2018, 2:27:38 PM·1 votes·1,369 views

So what if riot had something such as a monthly post or so where people can submit their ideas. Cause some people put so much effort in their concepts and i'd hate to see that work go to waste.

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ModThe Djinn2/1/2018, 3:07:02 PM2 votes

It's a bit of a Catch-22 for Riot.

On the one hand, the community feels like sometimes their ideas aren't appreciated.

On the other hand, taking community ideas has several downsides:

  • Employee time taken to read, consider, filter, etc. community suggestions.
  • Sheer number of incoming suggestions.
  • Player expectation that popular community suggestions will be used, even if Riot deems them bad for game health.
  • Player outrage if Riot comes up with an idea that a community member also had (separately), and doesn't credit that community member for the creation. We see this a lot already, even when evidence is circumstantial at best (or outright implausible, like when a concept appears a month before a similar release, even though releases take several months of development).
  • Designer burnout from having an exciting part of their job effectively "outsourced."
Rester2/1/2018, 2:45:12 PM1 votes

It's possible they do use some likeness of user ideas, but user submitted ideas pretty much don't get directly credited or compensated since you willingly gave up your idea to improve the game or add to it.

Escheton2/1/2018, 3:06:16 PM1 votes

They do take note. I've seen skins, items, abilities all blatently stolen (it's their intellectual property, so not really) over the years. But it's usually not from popular threads.