Missing the Point of Preseason

Around 80% of the front page is now dominated by complaints about the state of the game, and I agree with a lot of them. Towers are too weak, some champions are too strong, some champions are left in the dust, masteries are unbalanced, games are too short etc. etc. etc.

However! The whole point of preseason is this exact strategy where Riot dumps a load of changes on the game, sees what happens, and then starts fixing everything.

In a post (You can read the rest of it here)

A guy called Inept Maverick says

I think I realized the balancing strategy based on the last couple Red posts. While they tried to balance some things, for the most part they are throwing out a bunch of changes, expecting a lot of balance problems and such. Then they are going to nit pick through the system and solve issues that pop up until we end up with a changed, potentially better League of Legends. At least, that's what I see going on here.

To which Meddler replies

That's the hope. Preseason's a bit different to other times of the year, in that we're much more focused on getting bigger changes (new masteries, big sets of item changes, game pacing etc) as good foundations to support balanced characters, than in trying to give each individual champion exactly the right numbers on day one. Foundation building, with a focus on the longer term, rather than a patch that focuses on short term balance. That's an approach that's normally not appropriate, given there's ranked play and the various competitive leagues being played on a regular patch. Preseason's the time where we can make bigger, long term improvements, even if that means some disruption in the short term though. Demonstrating what the effects of healing via crits are for example, to set up work for the coming year, is more important than a handful of champions being suddenly too strong or weak for a patch.

Of course feedback is important but I don't think flaming and circle-jerks are the most productive methods in the world.