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Questions for Gaming Companies (Riot specifically)

Halcyn·7/1/2015, 3:59:44 PM·2 votes·725 views

I've been a long time gamer, and I've never understood why some gaming companies make the choices they do. I've always been a competitive gamer but I still fail to see why some companies (Riot and Blizzard being the biggest offenders) make blatantly awful choices.

Anyone who PVP'd competitively in WoW knows that frost mages have been BROKEN for about 2-3 years now, completely 1 shotting some people. Some classes like WW Monk have sucked balls for 1-2 years. The only difference is that Frost Mages have gotten buffed and WW has gotten nerfed. I just can't understand why. Another example for those of you who play league. Zed and LB have been dumping on people since their release. Then you have champions who have sucked for so, so long. Quinn, Zac, Yorick, Taric, Morde, MF, and so many others. Yet you don't buff them and you hardly touch the strong champs.

I'm so baffled as to just why? You throw a random nerf at champs who aren't even amazing at what they do like shyvana yet yesterday a Diana jungle two shot me. Why does it take so long to make decisions that most or the competent player base could make in a day? I mean it should be so easy, the numbers could be hard to balance but at least there would be change.

I blame everyone at Riot, honestly. I love your game but damn you guys need help balancing it. Nerfs should come to a champion because they are too strong. If LB is the most mobile champ in the game it should be a no brainier that they shouldn't do much damage. I mean seriously who at Riot Games thought of stuff like that? Who said "man all these people are talking about Mobility Creep are idiots let's make Ekko" and forget who came up the idea here is my main problem - WHY ISNT ANYONE AT RIOT PREVENTING THAT STUFF. From the LCS casters to the champ designers to the graphics guys. We love you, but we all play a part in speaking out when someone makes a bad choice. Stop letting the bad changes go through and start making sure good ones do good through.

Thank you

6 Comments

canpan147/1/2015, 4:10:13 PM3 votes

I blame everyone at Riot, honestly.

God damn those artists. Messing up my precious game balance. You really think they are involved in the balance process?

Game companies often do this not only to balance their game but to shake things up. They don't want everyone to be perfectly on the same level. They want to keep changing things to keep the game interesting.

Also your points are pretty dumb. Diana is supposed to two shot people, she is an assassin.

Lastly if the players got to balance things the whole game would be a mess. 95% of the time the player base is wrong and doesn't understand the ramifications of changes they want added in. If you really think the player base is that smart than you should follow all the crappy posts on the boards more often.

Bunny Bells7/1/2015, 7:36:15 PM1 votes

Um...

Quinn is a counter adc. As long as she's not set back a considerable amount she can basically insta gib a squishy target, at least in my experience.

Also MF has hella power. With BC she can shred the entire enemy team's armor with her ult allowing for front liners to just wreck. Not to mention her ult doesn't decay in power with more people hit so it too is blasting out awesome damage.

Each champ is strong in their own right. It's about team comp.

It's not really fair to compare an individual champion's strength to an individual class in WoW. This is a highly team dedicated game. That, you can roam around and do whatever you want. . . (I've never played, so I don't know how accurate that accusation is.)