My Condolences to The Board

ADC S10 HALP ME·Mar 2, 2020·1 votes·3,182 views

I want to first start out by saying, Riot, I love your game. I wouldn't have been playing this long if I didn't. Even though there were some rough times through the seasons, I still had my fun. I enjoyed getting better, climbing, learning, experiencing new things, having fun...

But now it seems League of Legends has lost its soul once it sold its identity of being an small Indie company. The communication and collaboration it once had with its playerbase has deteriorated through the years-- and a lot of it was due to neglect to respond and react to the community's voice over the years. It has driven many long time veterans away from this game, and this saddens me because this game was the goto game for ALL of my friends whenever we wanted to relax, have fun, or even play a competitive game.

But here we are in Season 10, and Riot's relationship with it's own playerbase has reached the tipping point and it's all summed up with the recent post that Riot is closing down the forums.

The League of Legends forums, although it is more negative than positive(which may be more indicative of a problem external to the players complaining), is a place where players can voice their opinions on the game, the matchmaking, the state and balance of the champions, suggestions, and for the purpose of being heard by Riot or others in the community.

That's being taken away. It's clear now that Riot doesn't care for it's playerbase, the relationship is gone. So many games have gone down the gutter because of corporate greed and a stubborn neglect of its cash source, ie it's own customer base, and it is in large part because of a blatant refusal to listen, acknowledge customer complaints, and do their best to come up with some reply or solution.

Shutting down the forums when it's pretty clear that there is still a good amount of activity-- posts, comments, and each post receives atleast 2k views, so to say the forums are dead is a stretch to say the least.

All this is doing is further exacerbating the problem, which will definitely get worse since there is no attempt to stop the hemorrhaging, and is a clear sign their game is dying.

I believe none of us WANT that to happen, and those that are taking the time to post here, TRULY LOVE THIS GAME and want their complaints heard so changes can be made to make the game enjoyable again because clearly there is something wrong.

I still think League of Legends is the best game in the market. It lost a bit of its luster, but it's just such a great game that it can recover from it's mistakes and reach a higher pinnacle than before, but only if-- IF -- Riot can take its community seriously and collaborate with us and stop making top down decisions from its own microcosm of ideas and opinions.

Riot, I'm still rooting for you as a company because I believe in your game, your developers, your employees, but you need to BELIEVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY.

Best Regards, Some Salty Community Crustacean

8 Comments

Nightsky PirateMar 2, 20206 votes

I wonder where I can find what the moderators had to say. Plain as day that they've been silenced here.

Kai GuyMar 2, 20202 votes

DTB has a few. I have never been that big on Riots "Reform" policies. Feels like Moderation is kneecapped having to abide by it.

Cant help but feel things woulda been different if some alternative steps got taken. More effort to filter out the folks who are here to troll. Set and enforce some rational quality control. Fucking have a few Reds Dedicated for community interaction be visible inside the community because a lot of folks where ignorance about dev corner or red tracker.

Guess I am ultimately jaded from being a member of the old forums prior to the influx of whinny brats blaming reds for their rank.

Nightsky PirateMar 2, 20201 votes

Literally the only farewell posts still standing are Heralds and Wuks, the board developer. ALL the moderators have nothing that I can find- but they did have threads up- mostly civil, with a little truth-telling, which I'm a little surprised to see Ulanopo has been lying to us apparently- or at the very least, being evasive. Riot says "shout out to the volunteer moderators" but then silence every single one of them.

Riot has permanently lost my respect.

Kai GuyMar 3, 20201 votes

I Like some Rioters. The setup they use is pretty fucking abusive for Devs. Crunch time 100% is fucking awful.

Moderators.. hit or miss but end of the day they cared and wanted a community so I find that relatable. Meh, I lurked in New to assist newbies and try to bash bullshit excuses down.

Really mixed Feelings still but honestly I think its a Dam shame end of the day. There was some amazing moments for a lot of people over the years and even if the quantity of garbage and low quality posts was far exceeding the Quality of good ones... Some of the interactions added to a lot of folks lives.

I am admittedly jaded as a poster from the Old forums.

I will always be adamant that games are to be enjoyed. Feel free to add me IG if you ever want some one to play with.

PokkuMar 2, 20205 votes

I can't even find the upvote button for some reason...

TeodorusofNoxusMar 2, 20201 votes

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I can't even find the upvote button for some reason...

It was removed.

TeodorusofNoxusMar 2, 20201 votes

Most of the great suggestions the community has get drowned by idiots who flame the OP and do not see the good in his suggestion because he is " low elo". Even high elo players like Hashinshin get flammed. At least Riot started listening to him. I really hope that the DD change goes through. Also nerfing Liandry's while compensating Mordekaiser with 5 percent e magic pen and a biiit of Q damage will do wonders. Also removing ap from items like DeathCap, magic pen from Voidstaff. Also removing stopwatch. Do that and the game will be a lot better. Yet the community will always flame people like me who suggest stuff. Some suggestions are actually supported. My point is that it is meaningless to keep forums or listen to 90 percent of the community.

xHeimtechZXMar 3, 20201 votes

Its not completely taken away, they're shifting attention away from the Boards and into Reddit and Twitter. People do voice their opinions there and Rioters do interact there. They even go into champion subreddits. I think the issue is more that they're wiping the Boards instead of archiving it. There's still old threads that are useful for even today. Troubleshooting, general game tips, etc. There's going to be AMA threads that will get deleted. If they're wiping the boards, does that include the forums archive? I've read Darius' character design AMA somewhat recently, I haven't read every champion's AMA. I'm going to miss reading them [sg-janna]