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Does RIOT even listen to us?

IronBoundMoon9·5/19/2018, 5:25:53 AM·5 votes·1,404 views

I'm just wondering if and when RIOT listens to us. It feels like whenever there is some game braking meta thing (Ardent Censer, AP Galio, scuttle just to name a few more recent ones) they never listen to us and never ever do a quick patch to change/revert that shit quickly (think they did that with AP Galio though). They also never have an actual response to the player-base via the forms, Reddit or any other source saying "hey guys, sry. We fucked up." It feels like there never listening to the players and even when they are listening, we never really know that. If they want to have a long lasting game that continues to grow in popularity, they will need to start communicating a bit better and making those communications more public. They could do this by simply putting it at the front of the league client or somehow alerting us that its on the boards. it also feels like nothing on the PBE is ever changed beside a few number changes. even on the PBE people were like "ya, scuttle is kinda strange and not making the game any better." and so it bewilders me why RIOT still put it in. I only say all of this with the best hopes for riot and LoL in general. I, like many others, love this game and love RIOT for crating this phenomenal game and only want to see whats best for it. Also I think this change was intended for pro-play but with no games being played till the summer splits its vary confusing on why they would make this change this early.

so in conclusion RIOT just needs to spend some time seeing our input, ideas and thoughts about the stuff they testing on PBE or the changes proposed on the forms, changing that stuff were complaining about and then notify us that the're listening to us. If RIOT can do all of this then they can continue to be an amazing game studio and be a model for others.

Plz up-vote so maybe someone at RIOT can see and start the conversation. Also #NeverForgetAPGalio [galio-happy]

21 Comments

Hyperiön5/19/2018, 1:47:13 PM2 votes

Why would Riot listen to the boards? It is filled with low elo people (myself included). We don't know what in the game needs work and so on and so forth. Thats why the meta is very different from low to high elo.

If rito listened to the boards, yasup, zed, riven, ahri, leblanc, master yi, etc would be insta deleted from the game, and supports would go around 1 shotting people, and adc's would be unkillable.

Herald Est Mors5/19/2018, 5:53:20 AM2 votes

Seems somebody downvoted this, so I gave you an upvote. Don't be so nice about it, Riot doesn't care what we want or think, because at the end of the day, all we do is give their website traffic, and spend money and time on the game. Whether we get our way or not really doesn't matter, they still get paid.

YOU SO BAD5/19/2018, 7:31:22 AM1 votes

The problem is 99% of the player base doesnt understand anything about the game at its core.

They just see something they dont like and want it different.

P4 Silent5/19/2018, 9:24:08 AM1 votes

https://imgur.com/xiosBuo

1W 10L B4

https://imgur.com/afbJS79

1W 9L B1

https://imgur.com/H5zdU3s https://imgur.com/t9VbB6s

Starting the same rank game on the same day!

The same kind of losing streak 5 games.

Get a 1 victory and then losing streak.

WHY!

One player stays in B1?

One player stays on B4?

(Can not find the results of other seasons)

50Shades0fTrynda5/22/2018, 10:09:48 PM1 votes

no

Azadethe5/19/2018, 9:23:39 AM1 votes

They do listen to players. That's why Atma's Impaler (Reckoning) is back. They completely ignored the fact it's a heavily broken item on scaling champs like Chogath Sion .

Sions are gonna get 175 AD out of Atma's. Cho Gath is going to get 275 AD. out of a single item.

On Sion, that gets amplified by his Q, and his ult into a 1 hit trainwreck.

On Cho, it's not as effective, but if game gets to anywhere near late game with 9-13 Stack Cho, Atma's is going to turn him into an aoe machine that can E to boost basic attacks in range and damage, and that 275 AD is going to cross over into that.... making him a 400 AD champ even on a tank/AP build. And his basics don't just hit one person. They hit whole teams.

Players whining is also why Zoe has been nerfed into an undesirable champ.

Astorine5/19/2018, 7:26:11 AM1 votes

They don't really see a need to when sheeple will just form their income anyways. We are just numbers.