The awful quality of Season 8 stems down to what's going on inside the company.

The Core of the Problem

Between the sexism, the immaturity of the high ranked members of the company, Clash horrible launch, balance issues and budget problems for Worlds and other major competitive events, it is evident that Riot is going through one, if not, its worst phase since the release of the game.

I'm a firm believer that in order to fix a problem, it is important to find its absolute core. Following most of these events being brought to light recently, when they have been for a problem a long time before it was brought to the public eye, we can deduce that the core of the problem is not a simple item or a champion...it's the Rioters themselves as harsh as it sounds. Truth is, if we want league to last much longer and envision a great FUTURE (yes i know, a word this band-aid short-term solution company is not familiar with) for the game there needs to be something done about the company itself. Unfortunately, even the very few respectable Rioters that actually want to make this game enjoyable again gets silenced by the big ego man-children at the top of the company, thanks to their stubbornness and immaturity.

The Solution?

A company reform. To put it simply, there needs to be people fired in the company and replaced. Who specifically needs to be fired? The regressive, unopened to constructive high elo experienced feedback, immature man-children that farts on other employers faces, wear "just the tip" shirts and refuse to change their ways because "muh frat mentality". This is a business not a high school and it's really getting embarrassing at this point. Another thing is that I feel more of these hard-working Rioters who actually want, just like us, to envision a great future for the game need to speak up more about what's going on inside the company (thank you Cecilia D'Anastasio for the Kotaku article that started it all, Barry Hawkins and the others that spoke up).

Now as for the realistic point I wanted to bring up:

Will any of this actually happen?

The answer is no. Money and power talks, this isn't just a problem that affects Riot but also every major tech company in America. The thing is most of these people I describe as being regressive man-children are the high ranked members of the company and there's no way on earth they'd be willing to give away their position due to their ego (which we can understand if we see things through their POV). No amount of board, reddit or employer criticism will change their mentality as human nature is not something you can change with mere words.

Now you might feel I wrote all this for nothing since it will not change anything about the game but to me spreading some awareness, even if I might sound like a "wake up sheeple epic gamers rise up we live in a society person", is probably the only thing I can do for now as someone who has been passionate for this game since season 2. I really incite other people to do the same.

Thank you for bearing with my rant and sorry if I didn't manage to be as neutral as possible with my opinion, I hope your day outside of league has been going great.