"We at Riot know you are afraid of how DQ will affect ranked integrity, but we will handle it."
"We at Riot know you are afraid of how RNG factor of plants will impact true skill of outplaying enemy, but we will handle it."
The randomness to them for example is pretty heavily controlled:
- They spawn on one of a few pre-determined possible spawn points for their type of plant, each picked to avoid abuse cases and make it fairly intuitive where you'll find them.
- Their spawning timing's similarly controlled (every 90-110s sort of thing, not full random). They also won't spawn at all in some circumstances (e.g. before/during first clears for example)
- There are some strict fairness controls on them to ensure they don't meaningfully favor one side of the map over the other (should get generally equal plant spawns across the two sides of the map over a period of time)
Plus
They're also nowhere near as frequent, or obtrusive, as some people have worried they'll be. As a jungler you'll probably consider personally interact with a plant every minute or so. This isn't a system that'll be constantly demanding your attention, or dictating your major choices, more one you'll take advantage of occasionally.
Basically "We are going to use this time of our creators to design major new feature of next Season, which you are not really going to use that much..."
If plants flop and we can't find a way to make them work we'll pull them.
Of course, since we will fall into Sunken Cost bias again, we will pull them at the end of Season 7, replacing them by something "fixed".
Me: https://media4.giphy.com/media/w2UtIGtEpuR9u/200_s.gif
https://media.tenor.co/images/54451401d52c0dd2fe9ee5752857d53c/raw
http://i.imgur.com/DKJhx9l.gif
All prepared to see the Boards of Season 7
"Rito this is bad idea don't do it" "U all hatin' before you try" "Rito this is bad idea, sthap" "They will tune it later, 'tis only Preseason" "Rito it fcked up the game, remove it" "You only finding excuse why you are bronze V"
"We at Riot decided it was really bad idea" "Praise our lords and saviours, see, they listen to feedback, you all should be silent now"
What new feature did we get from Season 6? Trust issues.