Riot Hate Hype Train

So recently there have been a lot of posts complaining about the things riot has done/left undone. For example, the lack of communication between rioters and people posting on the board. These complaints certainly have merit, but at the same time, all the complaining isn't achieving anything, and instead, is hurting the community even more.

My point here is beautifully illustrated by the negative feedback stemming from the new hud. I'm not necessarily saying the new hud is even remotely good, as many people would also agree with. But my issue with the storm of HUD hate posts on the boards is that they are being posted after the HUD has been realeased. Players are quitting and people are blaming riot for this huge failure, even though riot told us ahead of time what the new HUD would look like.

Remember the post from several months ago showing the new head? Remember the several posts after that showing every nook and cranny of the new HUD? Yeah, I do because all you had to do was look on the front page and you could see what the new HUD was like. Even if you didn't want to do that, you could still look at some PBE gameplay of it. But still, no one raised a finger about the new HUD before it was realesed, and only now are people voicing their displeasure. How the hell is riot supposed to listen to the community if they aren't saying anything until after something has been realesed?

Now I'm sure some people people voiced their displeasure about the HUD before, but not nearly enough to warrant the many posts now being posted on the boards. So anyway, before I get 300 down vote because this point isn't complaining about Riot, eat your Doritos and contemplate the fact that there is things we can do as a community other than just complain after the fact.