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Let me ask you, Riot....

MissMikasa·6/2/2016, 3:28:36 PM·7 votes·473 views

Since you are never bringing Solo Queue back, then give us something in return to apologize for your awful communication and, well, lies. Bring back Team Builder.

Now before you all go to down vote me, let's just see what they say. Riot, you can earn a little bit of trust back by giving us something we loved but had taken away. It's not much trust, but will ease the anger and pain and maybe make some people happy for once this whole season. You have to admit, most if not all your decisions this past year have been awful and sending the game into decline. So, I ask, bring back Team Builder.

And if you need any reminders on how you are sending the League players running away to Overwatch and other games, this is what you all have done to make people angry:

  • Bring Dynamic Queue into the game (the new match selection and picking is fine, DQ is not)
  • Tell us you are bringing SoloQ back, then go all silent for months about it, then tell us you are never bringing it back at all
  • Nerfing AP itemization to the ground
  • Reworking champs like Vel'Koz, who didn't need anything, and don't listen to us asking you to leave him alone
  • Give Malzahar a ridiculous OP passive
  • Give Zed buffs instead of nerfs (and compensation for any "nerfs" which are just love taps, mostly)
  • Delete Team Builder from the game
  • Delete Dominion from the game based on reasons of "no resources", when you just make a whole new map a few months later ("no resources" my a**)
  • Change Zhonya's into a "utility" item

I think those are the highest offenders right there. If I missed anything, let me know and I will edit it.

TLDR: Riot, please reconsider bringing TB back to help ease players anger and pain from what you all have caused. It can bring some trust back. If you do this, it can be the next step in bringing the game back to its better glory days.

8 Comments

stealthfox946/2/2016, 3:31:15 PM3 votes

I care about it more than sq tbh. I didn't play it that much but it was nice on occasions.

Kledy McKledFace6/2/2016, 3:32:22 PM3 votes

you realise everything you just complain about are chinese decisions? none of them come from NA but the american rioters are forced to go that way...

I claimed the moment the chinese guy bought riot games this game will be dead in less than 3 years and I have the feeling its starting

Colgate Gator6/2/2016, 3:34:30 PM1 votes

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Since you are never bringing Solo Queue back, then give us something in return to apologize for your awful communication and, well, lies. Bring back Team Builder.

A quick word of advice: Stop treating Riot, a company, like you would a friend or a spouse, your life will be much easier.

SoloQ, while some people loved it (for some reason, I couldn't stand the obligatory gay chicken fight when 2-3 people wanted the same role), it's a vast minority, they are focusing in the greater good, and sorry but, considering the millions that play this game (actual research pending), chances are they won't focus on your demands.

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TLDR: Riot, please reconsider bringing TB back to help ease players anger and pain from what you all have caused. It can bring some trust back.

Stop, you sound like a cheap soap opera drama.

I am Pacman6/2/2016, 4:32:01 PM1 votes

Not gonna respond to everything, just the stuff that is blatantly not true.

Nerfing AP itemization to the ground Reworking champs like Vel'Koz, who didn't need anything, and don't listen to us asking you to leave him alone Delete Dominion from the game based on reasons of "no resources", when you just make a whole new map a few months later ("no resources" my a**) Change Zhonya's into a "utility" item

AP itemization is the best its ever been with so many options now from the start of the game for each mid laner. Before pretty much everyone had a specific best build for each champion.

While malz and swain got overtuned all of those champs needed a change to make them unique. Ziggs and xerath were losing their place in the game, velkoz got some nice qol changes etc.

lol you actually cared about dominion? Nobody played it and yes that shit takes resources. Resources that could be used to give you rotating game modes.

Zhonyas has always been bought for its god like game changing passive. It has just happened to give more ap at the same time. Now its bought for its god like game changing passive but with less ap, less cost and some cdr.

I am Pacman6/2/2016, 6:34:50 PM1 votes

Less Ap across the board. Sure I mean there is less ap with a full build but they also nerfed mr going in to the mage update. Not only that but do you see mages begging for more ap? I don't, viktor, annie, brand, syndra, lux, morgana etc. None of these champs are low on dmg when they go full ap. Hell ap malph still works. Again ap itemization is way better though. I can taylor my build to the game at hand instead of just going the same cookie cutter build because its the best. More on that in P4.

Well I can understand why you would be opposed to changes that you don't want for your champ. But I think velkoz is way better now. Actually has a clear role in the game, has clear playstyle and pattern that can be both very powerful and at the same time can be outplayed. Also they were hardly big changes to him. His q got mana refunding added and they changed his dmg around so he is better at comboing his abilities (which he should be rewarded for doing) with his ulti.

For dominion. Cost-Benefit analysis tells us that dominion wasn't worth it vs giving the playerbase urf/hexakill/doom bots etc. Sure you may like it but way more people enjoy urf or any of the other game modes they are now using those servers and balance teams for. They are a company. They have to make business decisions like this. This one happened to be about a game mode that was old and sucked ass right from the start.

This goes with P1. Say I'm playing lux. Used to be you built morellos for mr regen, zhyonas next because it was just way to strong to pass up on, then you get ludens and finish off with rabadons and a void. Now my build depends on my lane opponent and what i want my build to accomplish. I can choose and each item has trade offs. Zhonyas/abysal are for situations where you feel like you need more defense but in turn you now sacrifice offence. If I'm doing good ill rush a ludens or a mejas if my team needs more cc then I can slip a rylias second etc. They actually gave zhonyas a weakness now, something it has needed for a couple of seasons.