Why Riot Can't Listen To The Boards.

TrevorAlu·4/17/2018, 2:11:00 AM·4 votes·1,197 views

A bunch of people on here hate the game, and think a bunch of things are broken. However, for every post about how OP Adc's are, there's another one saying they have no influence. People say Bot lane determines the game, yet tanks are the only way to win. Damage is too high, but tanks are unkillable. There are so many contradictions within the Boards about the state of the game that Riot has no actual foundation to get feedback from. And, yes, a lot of these things are actually problems and some things are "exaggerated," but legit how is riot supposed to approach this when they know any change will cause a huge number of players to scream bloody murder the second they read patch notes?

15 Comments

NocturnalSheild4/17/2018, 2:12:00 AM8 votes

You realize thats because the boards arent a hive mind and people with different opinions do exist right?

InfiniX4/17/2018, 2:25:30 AM2 votes

Well yeah it's hard for Riot to listen to the community when people do a complete 180 on every balance change that happens (ex. ADCs in 2k17 meme) so what Riot should do instead of appeasing every sub community in this game, they should just stick with one consistent balance philosophy for the entire game(not go assassins should have "windows of counterplay" and completely ignore other classes that don't have counterplay) and not deviate from it, and only listen to high elo players(not OTPs) for advice.

Battalion4/17/2018, 5:34:36 AM2 votes

A lot, of not all, the players who "hate the game" were players who loved the game at the same intensity and have felt let down by Riot's piss poor customer service record. While the community is not full of game designers and those with degrees in statistical analysis and business management degrees, that doesn't mean that Riot should exclude outside voices from their decision making.

As it stands right now there are probably less than 100 players that give Riot play testing feedback, the PBE is just a statistics pool, no one will read the custom feedback paragraphs, if those even exist anymore. Between their own employees, selected player testers, and graphs, they don't care about what else the community wants if it is at odds with their pre-determined patch road-map, not anymore. Riot games has gone from active, to semi-active, to witness protection in the way of customer relations. I don't miss the game, I'm over it at this point. I made a serious effort to redownload the game and honestly it was easier to just uninstall. I probably wont post on these boards either, as there's no point. I might check out some LCS games on twitch, but that's it.

PhantomGG4/17/2018, 3:00:23 AM2 votes

The reason this is happening is because the game has so many fundimental problems right now , that just about everyones complaints has a form of truth to it. Let's look at certain street fighter game. A lot of people felt it was a fun game and didn't suffer from to many balance issues. Yet everyone was able to point at Akuma and say "this is fucking broken".

no one really complained about anything else, all fingers were pointed at Akuma. That is because the street fighter community was right, most characters were balanced, Akuma was simple as single major problem.

League is not like that at all. Right now literally everything is a problem. so people are pointing fingers everywhere.

kaironen4/17/2018, 4:18:49 AM2 votes

It's easier to complain about something then to describe how a certain meta or game is good. Also, a lot of people don't see a reason to tell other people how good a certain game is. They would rather just play the game instead. Anyways, that's the reason why the boards is full of complaints rather than appreciation.

Ragnaveil4/17/2018, 4:43:41 AM2 votes

They do listen. Not as much as you want, but they do. (I find more unneeded and ill-thought out posts compared to thought out and logical, so I don't blame them for spacing away from the boards a bit)

FooDang4/17/2018, 2:36:12 AM2 votes

Honestly, the boards is a small fraction of players that actually play the game. Even if the boards were unified in outrage at a certain patch, they will still be an insignificant number compared to people who do not even look at the boards.

On that note. Most people who post on the boards are not even ranked high enough to understand the game enough for RIOT to listen to anyways, so it doesnt matter.

Poop Jelly4/17/2018, 2:32:50 AM1 votes

They shouldn't right away, but the boards do provide something interesting: an idea for a rotation of meta (due to nerf/buff certain champions) that keeps the game rotating. Though I feel sorry for people whose champion pools may be more limited when their champs got nerfed, but it's fun that one patch this guy sucks, and the next patch another guy sucks more.

[sg-miss-fortune]

The Bad Touch4/17/2018, 2:36:08 AM1 votes

My guess the same reason they hired Ghosttroller.

And we all know what that is.

MrHaZeYo4/17/2018, 2:18:57 AM1 votes

People with negitive views are more likely to express them while people with possitive and nuetral views are less likely to express them.