So Riot has had their worst year in a long time...

stanjer123·3/6/2019, 5:08:19 PM·12 votes·5,171 views
League of Legends' popularity keeps plummeting as WoW takes over

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ahkyio/league_of_legends_made_14_billion_in_revenue_in/

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/334636/Analyst_PUBG_outearned_every_other_premium_PC_and_console_game_in_2018.php

https://gamasutra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/Screen%20Shot%202019-01-17%20at%203_42_09%20PM.png

Riot is declining, fast, and for some reason their answer seems to be to focus on doing all the wrong things.

Players are fed up and not having fun (at least not like they used to), and your answer is to release radically expensive prestige skins to try to make your profit up? Are you guys for real.

Listen, players are not buying skins like they once did because they are not having fun like they once did. The atrocious balance, turning the game into a top down street fighter, lack of features added (you guys can't even add a few reskins to SR a year??), absolutely nothing done about games being decided by trolls and griefers, and a matchmaking that makes people want to cry, is why you're losing revenue.

Fix. The. Game.

There's your answer, not radically expensive skins, not more balance changes in the same direction, not make 10,000 more keywords bannable. Make the game fun again, and people will buy your shit.

39 Comments

Linna Excel3/6/2019, 5:18:26 PM6 votes

I partly blame the VGU team for this mess.

I'm pretty sure riot lost $100 million in sales when people saw they deleted Frostbutt irelia, the best irelia skin there was and one of the best skins in the game because some twit who needed to be fired wanted a snowday skin instead. I mean why would you throw money at skins if riot is just going to delete them in the next rework. If one of the top 10 skins in the game got randomly deleted, nothing is safe.

mrchipopo3/6/2019, 5:26:45 PM6 votes

When Riot does nothing to curb the amount of trolls but I get my first chat restriction in 7 years because I dared to call someone running it down mid a "kid", I think the game is beyond saving.

Soul Dealer3/6/2019, 5:42:01 PM4 votes

Riot needs to change their punishment system so that trolls are the focus and not toxic people. No one cares if people are toxic.

Rum and Rumble1/8/2020, 6:53:40 AM4 votes

Keep removing my comments Periscope. The incompetent balance team will praise you for defending their ego. It just proves that I am right and you cant argue back so you need to remove my comment. Go ahead!

Rum and Rumble1/8/2020, 7:08:56 AM4 votes

my friend Periscope, type "Riot Balance Team" on youtube and you would have many meme videos for yourself. I enjoy watching them. Hope you do as well! They are "too good" that people start to create memes about them. Also look for the definition of "Riot Balance Team" on Urban dictionary.

slippykitten3/6/2019, 5:28:28 PM4 votes

When dungeon fighter online overtakes you, you know its bad, lol

Düff McWhalen3/6/2019, 10:09:40 PM2 votes

I refuse to believe World of WarCraft is more popular than LoL. Battle For Azeroth is so fucking bad Blizzard should've just came out and said "Give us money for nothing". That game is even worse balanced than LoL, and the stupid dailies are so bad and unrewarding you might as well flush your money down the toilet. The story has retconned and ruined so many awesome characters and concepts and there's so much blatant rehashing and lazy effort on Blizzard's part. WoW's art and sound department can't carry that game forever...

(RANT)

Also lel, only 5 spots ahead of fucking Candy Crush. Might as well take LoL mobile. Just betray your audience out right already Riot. Rip the band aid off already instead of gradually making the game shittier until we "Leave on our own... but not before sinking money into it trying to save what you won't ever fix because you had no intention to." Have your mobile game with all the DLC and marketing campaigns shitting on people telling you rightfully why they don't like your products. Cash in on the ignorance of the next generation. Just. Fucking. DO IT ALREADY.

(/RANT)

Ravenhale3/6/2019, 5:32:59 PM2 votes

Well... this shows League is still the top MOBA. It could be a simple disinterest in MOBA games.

It's not like anyone could actually convince me Fortnite is a better game and I have honestly never heard of DFO (slightly intrigued now).

lolipopevelynn3/6/2019, 7:35:27 PM2 votes

fornite is an anomaly that wont last. they are only 100mill behind rank 2. pretty sure they will be fine if they fire the balance team and rehire a new one. same goes for their behavior team.

just saying.

Jaspers3/6/2019, 10:55:40 PM2 votes

Tell you one thing, Tencent are very happy people, looking at that list.

hardheadking211/12/2019, 8:25:59 AM2 votes

Damnnnnnnnnn

You know, league woulda never died. It's basically a sport, but unfortunately riot keeps changing the rules. Sports don't have to change much. Rip lol 2009 - 2017ish

The Bad Touch1/23/2020, 8:06:33 AM1 votes

I stopped buying skin in 2015 when Riot spend 3 years on a ban spree.