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Dear Riot

Sydney26··16 votes·838 views

Dear Riot,

after following your red tracker i always see rioters answer to threads which are NOT concerning the problems of league has these days. Instead its about skins or something else. After one year of complainging about dynamic queue u acknowledged u made a mistake. It would be nice if u would listen to people palying your game

Problems these days u should fix or consider and discuss with the players. Maybe u should watch games from season 2-5 to see how much damage was dealt than and compare it to now.

  • games are to snowbally
  • your matchmaking is broken in normals
  • your matchmaking is broken in rankeds - there is no reason a bronze, silver, gold and platinum should be in the same game at the same time
  • overall mobility of newer champs to create flashy plays in lcs --- older champs are outdated and too one dimensional
  • overall dmg to high
  • state of toplane and bruisers
  • lategame champs spike too early
  • too short games
  • herold makes snowbally games more snowbally
  • first blood tower gold has too much impact
  • jungerls ganking with level advantage and full life --- too fast clears without risks
  • games are decided within the first 5-10 minutes
  • individual skill less important to end games
  • impact of botlane too high
  • blue essence useless for veterans
  • orange essence u get for disenchanting skins are too low
  • daily win doenst reset on daily basis .. eg 1:00 am
  • too many champs with low winrate are not buffed
  • too many champs with high winrate are not nerfed
  • your system forcing players to have 50% winrate --- causes win and loss streaks which are terrible
  • runes system reforged has less possibility to customize champs compared to runes and masteries in the past

The direction game takes is not healthy for the game in longterm. And i am sure this will be another thread riot will not comment on.

i am a die hard fan but i dont know how long i can enjoy the state of the game anymore

18 Comments

BALDG1VEN BOOMER15 votes

Rioters don’t tend to comment on those things because people will literally knit pick words and use it against them.

ModKnightsKemplar7 votes

The community makes it hard for them to want to come and respond. When you start a thread in an aggressive way like this, it's pretty unlikely to work, generally. The reason that you see them so often on non-balance related issues is because people are much more positive about most of the other topics related to the game.

Fraggleroc6 votes

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The community makes it hard for them to want to come and respond. When you start a thread in an aggressive way like this, it's pretty unlikely to work, generally. The reason that you see them so often on non-balance related issues is because people are much more positive about most of the other topics related to the game.

Aggressive posts happened for a reason. People are frustrated. Does not excuse Rioters from not responding to questions raised.

We're all human beings subject to emotions. They're not some supreme beings.

ModKnightsKemplar5 votes

In order to "not be excused," they would have to be obligated to respond in the first place. They aren't.

That's the big joke with using negativity to bait them out. They're using Internet 101: Don't Take the Bait. They aren't kiddos, and they have 0 obligation to walk into a situation where people are being shitty. You're much more likely to get a conversation going with them if you remember that.

You can think their behavior isn't excused all you want, but at the end of the day, it's their call. If that makes you walk away from the game, I kinda doubt they care; just like in-game bad behavior, they aren't really bothered by losing some difficult individuals. They've got plenty of customers, most of whom never set foot on the Boards.

Fraggleroc2 votes

{quoted}

In order to "not be excused," they would have to be obligated to respond in the first place. They aren't.

That's the big joke with using negativity to bait them out. They're using Internet 101: Don't Take the Bait. They aren't kiddos, and they have 0 obligation to walk into a situation where people are being shitty. You're much more likely to get a conversation going with them if you remember that.

You can think their behavior isn't excused all you want, but at the end of the day, it's their call. If that makes you walk away from the game, I kinda doubt they care; just like in-game bad behavior, they aren't really bothered by losing some difficult individuals. They've got plenty of customers, most of whom never set foot on the Boards.

It's a simple case of "Not listening to your customers' complaints". Yes, of course we can choose to not play their game.

What u propose is that : Since Riot posture themselves as some supreme gods, we peasants have to beg at their feet to be heard. Pls Pls listen to us, oh benevolent gods! Because I don't see how the original post is negative or for that matter, aggressive.

Alas, most of this stuff is subjective.

ModKnightsKemplar3 votes

It is subjective, but again, this isn't a platform that many of their customers use. That's an inaccurate complaint, imo.

And I don't think they are posturing as gods at all; quite the opposite. They are just regular people, and regular people don't like being attacked. They never said this was a great place to get feedback from them; the community has set up that expectation. The community is the entity responsible for setting up those expectations, not Riot. They are treated as gods because of people that say they are gods (i.e. you), but they never said that.

Ayanami3rd5 votes

You consider _this _ an aggressive thread? Man, you surely don't visit the boards often... :)

Sydney261 votes

this thread is not aggressive ?!?

ModKnightsKemplar1 votes

It's not aggressive in the sense that you aren't using all caps to scream at them, sure.

"Sit by the fire while I tell you everything you've fucked up and accuse you of ignoring us" is not the right way to start a conversation, though. Note the lack of Rioter engagement on this thread.

As Ayanami3rd's comment jokingly points out, there are way worse threads on the Boards. I'm not disputing that. But just like the player behavior system, "not being as bad as that other guy" doesn't win you any points. This isn't anything that I would want to respond to as a Rioter, simply because it starts off with such a negative tone.

Marshbouy1 votes

E.G. "We are looking into an anti shield item for season 8"-Meddler, some time around patch 8.1 IIRC.

patch 8.2 rolls around "WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SHIELD ITEM YOU PROMISED MEDDLER? BALANCE TEAM NEEDS TO BE FIRED."

Oxyrotten1 votes

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Rioters don’t tend to comment on those things because people will literally knit pick words and use it against them.

Then they should word their comments more carefully and tell the truth.

AgeOfTheMage6 votes

Just because they're a rioter doesn't mean they're a part of the balance team.

TehNACHO1 votes

memory restored

I remember the good ol' days of harassing Art Team members to fix the servers.

Marshbouy1 votes

I remember the good ol' days of harassing Art Team members to fix the servers.

people still do this lmao.

BestPudgeNA3 votes

state of toplane and bruisers

Time to take a shot

Ayanami3rd1 votes
  • games are to snowbally Yes.
  • your matchmaking is broken in normals Yes.
  • your matchmaking is broken in rankeds - there is no reason a bronze, silver, gold and platinum should be in the same game at the same time Maybe. I don't play ranked.
  • overall mobility of newer champs to create flashy plays in lcs --- older champs are outdated and too one dimensional No. There is enough CC creep to counter that.
  • overall dmg to high Yes.
  • state of toplane and bruisers Maybe bruisers need a little love, but I'm scared what Riot's balance team would do with them.
  • lategame champs spike too early Yes.
  • too short games Yes.
  • herold makes snowbally games more snowbally Yes. Towers are already useless and now you have a giant creep to get them out of the way for you.
  • first blood tower gold has too much impact Depends on the game.
  • jungerls ganking with level advantage and full life --- too fast clears without risks Yes.
  • games are decided within the first 5-10 minutes Yes.
  • individual skill less important to end games OMG YES. This is why I don't play ranked games actually.
  • impact of botlane too high That is a tough one. You will never have all lanes do an equal impact. I tend to say No, it's fine as it is.
  • blue essence useless for veterans Kind of, but is that really an issue? "Oh my God I'm so rich, I bought everything on this planet! I feel so miserable!"
  • orange essence u get for disenchanting skins are too low Yes.
  • daily win doenst reset on daily basis .. eg 1:00 am Why is that an issue? It resets after like ~22h, so you will almost always have a chance to catch it the same time next day.
  • too many champs with low winrate are not buffed Winrate is not everything. You have to look at the champions specifically.
  • too many champs with high winrate are not nerfed Winrate is not everything. You have to look at the champions specifically.
  • your system forcing players to have 50% winrate --- causes win and loss streaks which are terrible Yes. Reason #2 why I don't play ranked games.
  • runes system reforged has less possibility to customize champs compared to runes and masteries in the past Concerning special traits - no. Conerning base stats - hell yeah, and they are dearly missed.

May I also add to the list?

  • Towers are borderline useless
  • Misbehaviour apart from verbal toxicity is not punished
  • Honor system is borderline trash (rewards are too rare / too insignificant, and there is no clear indicator on your progress)
no to toxic1 votes

If you want a Rioter to respond and read this go to Reddit name a thread something like "(Harmless problem) is still up I hope Riot are planning on removing it" then you copy paste your current post on there. You can also go to some yiff subreddit and write "CertainlyT pls don`t ruin the Akali rework" Always works there.

HeyBigGuyHeyBudd1 votes

Rito is losing its player-base because of these changes. I have many long time addicts that have moved to PUB G now and only play League casually at best because or play when PUB G servers are down as the game just doesnt feel like what it was 3-5 years ago.

I too have voiced my concerns about the game.

  1. Ranked just doesnt feel strategic anymore, just feels like a coin toss on who has the better support & adc.
  2. Rift Herald and first tower gold makes the game even more snowbally
  3. Too much early free noob damage from things like arcane comet and aery
  4. Fucking kids on the weekend
  5. BRING BACK DOMINION!!

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