To Everyone Complaining About the Missions

Fecal Eruptions ·Oct 3, 2017·2 votes·405 views

...you don't have to do them. Riot doesn't have to give them to you. They don't have to put time and effort into these events. If I had to guess, I'd say Riot is doing okay financially. These missions and events are 100% optional - free - bonus material - yet, we're so ungrateful and critical. Of course they're going to take special care of people who pay them more money..wouldn't you? C'mon, this is pure business and those of you without jobs just have to suck it up and enjoy your plethora of free shit (I feel so sorry for you).

I understand giving constructive criticism, but at some point we have to realize that we can simply enjoy what we've been given even if it's not amazing or super inventive or makes everyone happy..sometimes, we can just play the game. I understand being vocal is good, but there is such a thing as overstating. Also, these missions are supposed to be very hard to complete. Riot isn't trying to give everything away like some charity.

One last thing - why are we not as vocal about the good things Riot does as much as the bad?** Giving positive reinforcement is just as important as constructive criticism.** 90% of what we do is complain. 5% are neutral topics. 3% is constructive criticism. And the other 2% is positive reinforcement. Just go check out the trending topics for yourself - the math is spot on.

P.S. Comparing 1 mission to a featured game mode is ridiculous.

7 Comments

ZapMyHeartOct 3, 20173 votes

Kind of pointless to make the mission super complicated and difficult to achieve...only for a measly pittance for all that effort.

Might as well not add it in at all, save the staff's time, and give them something better to do like fixing bugs in their client or making another Annie skin.

Fecal Eruptions Oct 3, 20171 votes

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Kind of pointless to make the mission super complicated and difficult to achieve...only for a measly pittance for all that effort.

Might as well not add it in at all, save the staff's time, and give them something better to do like fixing bugs in their client or making another Annie skin.

You seem to think that there's one group of people doing everything. Like, if they're about to create an event for us, they can't work on anything else. There are different departments for different things. The department that handles bugs in the client is different from the one that handles skins, and both of those are different from the team that handles events.

ZapMyHeartOct 4, 20171 votes

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You seem to think that there's one group of people doing everything. Like, if they're about to create an event for us, they can't work on anything else. There are different departments for different things. The department that handles bugs in the client is different from the one that handles skins, and both of those are different from the team that handles events.

If the department who work on events are that useless and can't come up with fair missions, Riot are better off demoting those people who work there to become assistants for other departments. I mean, you have to to be really dense to not pay attention to the Boards who are saying that they don't appreciate being forced into a 5-man premade team to complete the missions. I highly doubt their internal data would say that the rest of the LoL base would be okay with it as well.

The fact that the Star Guardian event was a disaster should have been a wake up call for said department. But leave it to Riot to never disappoint us by continuing to not learn from their mistakes despite the playerbase saying to do so. To them, No means Yes. And their reputation continues to be dragged through the mud even more.

They never learn.

Devilreaper XIIIOct 3, 20171 votes

1 these missions aren't hard just plain retarded.... 2 why is there a time limit to them? 3 sometimes these events are made impossible 4 they aren't always targeted towards you as a player but as premade team of 5 -.- 5 the rewards aren't worth doing the missions 6 people that pay get the rewards what point does the event have? 7 no one is treated as equal with events/missions.

if anything they are always sale promotions to sell new skins -.- its kinda stupid to even call them events or missions like riot does.... they aren't giving away free stuff, they are trying to make you buy skins.

Fecal Eruptions Oct 3, 20171 votes

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1 these missions aren't hard just plain retarded.... 2 why is there a time limit to them? 3 sometimes these events are made impossible 4 they aren't always targeted towards you as a player but as premade team of 5 -.- 5 the rewards aren't worth doing the missions 6 people that pay get the rewards what point does the event have? 7 no one is treated as equal with events/missions.

if anything they are always sale promotions to sell new skins -.- its kinda stupid to even call them events or missions like riot does.... they aren't giving away free stuff, they are trying to make you buy skins.

Here's just one possible benefit of these missions...objective control. These missions force players to focus on objectives to complete them. That practice can translate to ranked environments. I mean, it may sound stupid but..it really makes sense. Think about how many players are, for the first time, actively searching for opportunities to take drags and baron just to get those tokens. Would it make sense to say that some players may actually improve overall as a result?

There's a time limit because nothing lasts forever? And a lot of time, people need some sort of incentive to be productive. Also, because there are too many missions to just have them all available at once. You might say they could stagger the mission release dates but again...if there is no time limit, people won't feel as great a need to actually complete them and it could affect their numbers.
Obviously these events are possible.
So what if they prioritize premade 5? All of this is within the scope of the game..it's fair. It's a challenge just like any other. It's not Riot's job to make sure the missions they create keep everyone in their safe spaces..sometimes part of the challenge is going out of your comfort zone and actually putting in some kind of effort into clearing the mission.
If the rewards aren't worth it, don't the missions. End of story. Why do you care?
And no, people pay for a pass for the chance at more valuable rewards. Even if you don't pay, you can still use tokens to get blue essence, key fragments, and prize capsules. Again, if you don't think those rewards are worth the trouble, then by all means..don't worry about them.

Devilreaper XIIIOct 3, 20171 votes

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Here's just one possible benefit of these missions...objective control. These missions force players to focus on objectives to complete them. That practice can translate to ranked environments. I mean, it may sound stupid but..it really makes sense. Think about how many players are, for the first time, actively searching for opportunities to take drags and baron just to get those tokens. Would it make sense to say that some players may actually improve overall as a result?

There's a time limit because nothing lasts forever? And a lot of time, people need some sort of incentive to be productive. Also, because there are too many missions to just have them all available at once. You might say they could stagger the mission release dates but again...if there is no time limit, people won't feel as great a need to actually complete them and it could affect their numbers.

.... what i mean is why not let players finish the quests consecutively and remove the time limit alltogether or put a final date on it..... finish 1 quest to unlock another without some timelimit.

lets say event starts 01 - 01 - 017 than they can easily end it for example at 01 - 31 - 017 instead of do this within 6 days do that within 6 weeks O.o

Obviously these events are possible.

previous event was impossible unless you got the right map setups -.- star guardian turd event!

So what if they prioritize premade 5? All of this is within the scope of the game..it's fair. It's a challenge just like any other. It's not Riot's job to make sure the missions they create keep everyone in their safe spaces..sometimes part of the challenge is going out of your comfort zone and actually putting in some kind of effort into clearing the mission.

cause everyone got time at the same time .o. just no, the premade crap makes no sense at all.... PLAY A PREMADE MATCH OF 5 WITHOUT RANGED, yeah so fair..... team missions should only exist on pve modes or games.

If the rewards aren't worth it, don't the missions. End of story. Why do you care?

it could be fun but it isn't.... you get turds spamming and waiting drake, picking ashe without experience, EVEN in RANKED etc etc and the melee premade cannot be controlled its luck based -.-

And no, people pay for a pass for the chance at more valuable rewards. Even if you don't pay, you can still use tokens to get blue essence, key fragments, and prize capsules. Again, if you don't think those rewards are worth the trouble, then by all means..don't worry about them.

this game is becoming pay to win more and more :/ in case you didn't know skins actually have benefits -.-

KyninOct 3, 20171 votes

The missions during this event are the best Riot has made since starting missions. I have noticed so much more objective control and team play. My only complaint is the melee mission. It gives people the need to troll... a team comp has difficulty scaling without a marksman and there are very few melee mages. I've easily won games because of enemy teams "trolling" playing a full melee comp because Riot says they need to.

"You dont have to do them" is not an answer to bad design. It will impact people who choose not to do the missions just the same.

In an Ask Riot when missions were introduced they said:

"It’s important to us that missions don’t negatively impact your games. This means missions can’t encourage players to play to lose or to play in sub-optimal ways." "MISSIONS CHALLENGE YOUR SKILL, NOT YOUR PATIENCE."

My only complaint previously was that multiple missions were not able to be completed while playing support.