Riot you do realize that there's no reason for your current fans to trust you right?
There's a paradox known as the Ship of Theseus that I've brought up a few times on the boards. Where if you replace every piece of a ship with a new piece (often described as "identical in every way"), then it creates a paradox of identity. Does the ship remain the same ship or is it a different ship? It's one of the first philosophical concepts introduced if you do anything with philosophy. And it's a paradox because the answer is both yes and no.
There's a simpler version of this paradox known as the "grandfather's axe", it's the same concepts except with 2 pieces and not normally considered identical pieces. Your grandfather gives you an axe, after some use you replace the handle with a new stronger one. Then after some more use at a later time your replace the axe head with a new sharper one.
I lead with these concepts to make this point The game has objectively changed. And it has objectively changed for the worse from some people's subjective prospectives, made both subjectively and objectively possible by this paradox.
The reason that players don't have any reason to trust you, comes down to the fact that in this analogy, you didn't simply replace the axe handle and head, you foolishly decided that there was no harm in discarding the pieces being replaced. Most people don't play games because of how good of a tool they are, they play because of how it feels to use that proverbial axe. Yet your complete disregard for the legacy content of this game is what gives people that have, do, or will ever, enjoy the state of the game no reason to expect you to not also eventually phase it out and dispose of it too.
Face it, there's no such thing as "too big too fall", but there's absolutely "too big to stay afloat".
Regardless of if you enjoy or hate the current state of the game, I don't care. But I'm sure that we can all agree, that you'd prefer if riot would preserve and make accessible legacy content to all players. How this should be accomplished, I'll leave to riot and the community. I will however say, that there's no reason that custom games should require players to abide by the current standard that exists in the game. If riot gave players an environment which gave them nearly full control over nearly every aspect of the game, with access to every iteration of a champion and item, the outsourced labor of balancing the game would be far faster and incite far less outrage from their community now and into the future.
