A sincere, dear Riot

Dear Riot,

I played this game for a year before leaving it for good. I left because season 8 and its preseason erased the fun of the game. Riot, as a headquarters, lost their original mission and has now gone blind. You, as a group of employees, decided to ignore the players and community. I have stood by for the past few months to see the reactions, to see change, and have hope only to see a bigger pitfall.

Did you heed some suggestions? The keyword is some and how you addressed them was poor. For example, the ADC rework, the stat changes to champions, and top-lane's insignificance were all addressed poorly. Let's not forget how long it took for the community to get you to admit your weekly changes to the meta were sickening. Rather than focus on healthier gameplay, you began pushing for new content and money that ran tangent to the actual issues.

• You nerfed ADCs to the point they are essentially insignificant in driving the game.
• Top-laners have innate tankiness but the burst of an assassin.
• Assassins have little counterplay to stop them when they are behind and none when they are ahead.
• Jungle is fucked.
• Items are horribly designed and have no consideration on balance.
• Runes were not addressed properly as to their "bubbling-up" issue.
• Bundles are still not addressed.
• Tanks are still useless.
• Snowballing is higher than ever
• You reinforced the giving up mentality more rather than promote comebacks
• ADC role is not diversified
• Rather than introduce diversity to botlane and ration out fair impacts upon roles, you made more champions obsolete and ADC the worst role
• You show clear favoritism to champions
• You lied to us. (Remember, "We don't purposely change the meta" but proceeded to create Stormrazor and HoB for Jhin and Essence Reaver for Lucian)
• Let's not forget the sexism (on both genders)
• Let's not forget the bigotry
• Let's not forget the sexual harassment

This is to name a few things. I hope one day the community gets to be heard better but this game will rot. It has been a staple and there is a reason why ratings have plummeted. I mean...

...Just look at how pathetic Worlds was with its final. That was anti-climatic. You even failed at that. If you're going to push the game to make pro-play more entertaining, at least be good at it.

Best, Elohaven