A Typical Post Rioters Respond to:

ScurvyNave··20 votes·1,091 views

^ Hear a completely nonsensical, non-game related, utterly useless post that achieves nothing for the average player base.

What you will find here: Funny Jokes Questions About Skins Art Asking for games "Which Champion _____ would you _____?" style questions LCS stuff that doesn't matter to the average player Rioters responding in droves

What you won't find here: Discussion about particular balance changes and why they happen Admitting or solving bugs or gameplay issues affecting players Explanations or defences of statements about champion power and meta-shifting Anything of particular use to the more common board poster who wants his voice heard over practical game related matters

Honestly Look at the Red tracker the number of red posts on threads that have very little to do with actual gameplay and balance is abysmally small whereas a thread about a skin or some LCS question or champion survey will have dozens! Why is this. Shouldn't the core gameplay and champion balance be the primary focus of what the boards are about

Or is it simply that they avoid balance and gameplay discussions and pick and choose threads that are easy to respond to or have nothing to do with the department they work in so they can say

"Well I don't work in _____ and _____ but from my understanding........" -Yeah thanks for being on the boards but the people involved with the topic being discussed should be the ones defending it/explaining it.

....Rant complete .... time to go lose a ranked game cause of afk or our Warwick ulting a Thorn-mailed Irelia.

GG!

13 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer4 votes

I've seen plenty of Reds reply to bug threads, both acknowledging the problem and saying when it happened, and saying they were either working on a fix or one was already coming out in the next patch

Chijoku2 votes

This. So much this.

GloriousKaiser1 votes

Well GC and Meddler did come out and discuss a few days ago. But the rest of the balance team? They're cooped up tight. I feel the animosity that the Boards holds towards them right now is scaring them off, or in the least, dissuading them from talking discussion.

They'll probably hold an AMA on Reddit soon for Bard, and their patch 5.4

ScurvyNave3 votes

They'll probably hold an AMA on Reddit soon for Bard, and their patch 5.4

God Help them if they do. I'm betting there will be pitchforks and torches shaken in the air cause of 5.4 and not without good reason.

GloriousKaiser6 votes

Haven't you heard? Apparently Reddit is the place where Riot is praised endlessly and nobody ever calls them out on BS.

lojician2 votes

Why do you think boards are reddit 2.0?

KING ATTILA1 votes

so true

YOU BEEN WARNED1 votes

Was a really good post until you declared it as a rant.

Should've had 100+ upvotes to show newcomers to boards what to expect.

I disagree with the statement that unrelated Rioters responding to a matter shouldn't respond, I mean yes ideally we want the person involved to respond but some response is better than leaving a 100+ topic floating around.

ZephyrDrake2 votes

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Was a really good post until you declared it as a rant.

Should've had 100+ upvotes to show newcomers to boards what to expect.

I disagree with the statement that unrelated Rioters responding to a matter shouldn't respond, I mean yes ideally we want the person involved to respond but some response is better than leaving a 100+ topic floating around.

isn't that what they do anyways? they either say "we'll bring this up to the correct people/team" or say something that they themselves admit that it's their own opinion on things and that they have no part whatsoever in the topic at hand. While it's nice to see a Rioter respond to the threads we aren't getting any answers from the Rioters we want and all we are getting are half answers that don't really tell us what we want to know or just leave us in the dark while hoping that someone else is going to come and answer our questions

Kise1 votes

I thought they said they were more active over here than on old GD? What gives?

junglerboy161 votes

Calling it now, this will either become a Rioters responding in droves or a 0 Red response thread.

Anyway, I have a feeling they stay away from the gameplay and balance threads because that is where the majority of the "I wish this person were fired for this stupid balance!" threads live, and most of the reds that do post there end up getting hate responses half the time from people who just want to flame and rage.

bzhen09151 votes

Not all rioters are created equal. A lot more rioters will tend to respond to these less "important" things because they are able to. While the game balance is not where a lot of rioters can respond to.

Oleandervine1 votes

They only respond to certain threads because the ones who are responding are most likely the dedicated social media/PR staff, and they most likely don't have the expertise or authority to give absolute answers in other threads about the things the community is frothing at the mouth over.

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