@Riot, Balance Team and Otherwise.

ArmoredRogueTK·Jan 30, 2015·10 votes·1,036 views

I've been reading all this negative feedback lately and I just couldn't stop thinking, "This game is amazing, and I get to play this everyday for free. How can they talk back to the people who make this happen with such a lack of respect?" Personally, as a player since season two, I think this game is the best it's ever been and I'm grateful that you guys keep working to improve it every day.

Thanks for being Awesome Riot, keep making a great game.

Edit: Didn't notice where it was posted to... I expect it to be moved soon. lol

14 Comments

DecritJan 30, 20155 votes

Passion is hardly always used for good. For example rage and delusions are good samples of it.

However, i really agree that some players were straight disprectful: how can even people pretend that a Rioter must stop his work to always share feedback and impressions, if the first thing that he sees is whining and baseless accusations?! Criticism is fine, they are not perfect and there was more than a situation where a good critical feedback was listened and accepted.

...and yet i see upvotes on people that thinks they do not nerf Lee Sin because "it' s their favourite", while some months prior the whole community rose against them with based feedback and them, that listen to it, reverted a critical change..? I don' t know about pbe, but sometimes i just think that they would do better to recluse themselves from community and just think on their own, and leave Katie or whatever out of the lab for reporting only... and there' s someone who does that, because the community is really unbearable sometimes.

ArveanorJan 30, 20152 votes

pbe is more for QA then people's opinions on balance. I think they try to get a lot of that figured out beforehand through other avenues (mainly live balance state), but you are right that pbe causes a lot of distate in the community.

RexZorJan 30, 20153 votes

The people who post negatively probably love the game more than you and want to see it go in the right direction. Love and Hate are two sides of the same coin brutha.

WheatloafJan 30, 20152 votes

It's entirely possible to be unhappy with something in a civilized manner. Expletives and insults aren't required to get a point across. Granted, plenty of community members already know this. We just have an extremely loud few who don't.

Gank in ProgressJan 30, 20151 votes

people are civilized for YEARS, and its getting tiresome when you constantly see only 20 champions played, every single game

SecretAgentHulkJan 30, 20151 votes

They are opposites. If someone uses their love as an excuse to hate, they're doing love wrong.

Ash LockheartJan 30, 20153 votes

Riot has to earn that respect and when players talk about what they like and don't and riot said's we listen but do some thing else is not some thing that is respected.

wolfaxJan 30, 20154 votes

Riot said they'll listen, NOT that they'll cave into the demands of the vocal minority on the boards who have a vested interest in seeing whatever champion they main catapulted to the top through some terrible changes they've envisioned.

Riot earns my respect for putting up with the absolute crap this community throws at them. Do you wonder why they don't post often? Go look at whenever they post. It drives me up the wall some of the crap people post because they're "better" than Riot at Riot's own game. I really wish there was a way to create alternate universes where a community member could be put in charge of the game to watch the absolute trainwreck they'd make of the game.

SecretAgentHulkJan 30, 20152 votes

It drives me up the wall some of the crap people post because they're "better" than Riot at Riot's own game.

I love these people. They know more about balance than someone who likely went to college for it and almost definitely makes more than them to do it.

I really wish there was a way to create alternate universes where a community member could be put in charge of the game to watch the absolute trainwreck they'd make of the game.

This would be so fun to watch.

SecretAgentHulkJan 30, 20151 votes

What if you had to earn the right to have a voice? Respect is a two-way street, and I see precious little reason why Reds should respect very many opinions on these Boards, other than genuinely wanting to give players a good experience out of the goodness of their hearts. And that should earn your respect.

The Epicer ONeJan 30, 20151 votes

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I've been reading all this negative feedback lately and I just couldn't stop thinking, "This game is amazing, and I get to play this everyday for free. How can they talk back to the people who make this happen with such a lack of respect?" Personally, as a player since season two, I think this game is the best it's ever been and I'm grateful that you guys keep working to improve it every day.

Thanks for being Awesome Riot, keep making a great game.

Edit: Didn't notice where it was posted to... I expect it to be moved soon. lol

dont u realize that riot doesnt give a fuck about silver or below. they said it many times, just check the red tracker. they dont care about anyone below the lcs. and do u actually think this is the only f2p moba i can play. i can play dota 2, smite, strife, even heroes of the storm. the only reason i dont play dota 2 is because of the shit gui.

SecretAgentHulkJan 30, 20151 votes

IDK what you read, but Riot seems to be one of the few League-related entities that actually does care about Silver and below.

chumblerJan 30, 20151 votes

You should continue going through life being so uncritical. I'm sure that will get you far. And I have no doubt that Riot will reward you for your blind loyalty and dick sucking.

This game is not amazing, gets steadily worse, and Riot has shown no reason to give them any respect. "They're the ones making the game, so obviously they know more" is also a fallacy, or are you going to say AC: Unity was perfect and flawless because the people who made it are the people who made it?

PS Nobody goes to college for game balance, and how much they get paid (which by most reports you see is "not much") is completely irrelevant.

BallisticMouseJan 30, 20151 votes

Well the entire reason they made these boards instead of the old forums was to get more involved with the community and what it thinks needs changes, etc.