Why are we okay with riot deprioritizing community concerns

AMADEUSdotEXE·Oct 6, 2018·4 votes·884 views

on the games health, state, and development to line their pockets with as much juice as they can squeeze out of worlds? Why do we have to wait for the game to "hopefully" become better and not feel like complete shit to play because riot wants Kai'sa, Jhin, and Irelia to attract new players at Worlds??? How is it that the 3% of players in that bracket are considered when addressing the state of the game over the vast majority of us some of which could care less about whether or not Faker etc. will be okay with changes before Worlds?

3 Comments

Kai GuyOct 6, 20182 votes

Things to keep in mind.

Riot balanceing is not even weekly, its bi weekly, and many time they are content to let things run for 1-2 months to collect data. They do not think in a short term or low # count. Players seem to see things in a period of 10+ games and want instant results even befor standard patch dates. (see RITO HOT FIX X WTF! Threads)
Riot does make a habit to balance outliers in any MMR, Things have been nerfed and buffed to account for being to weak or strong in various MMRs.
The community is not unified, we argue over everything with everybody. Also a majority of posts are just fucking wrong. Take a look at any thread of HERES HOW I WOULD BALANCE THIS GAME!

Worlds is not just a source of revenue, its also the best time to showcase what the very best players can do with this game. Some stability is required for it to work well so the reasonable expectation you should set is that its gonna be pretty mild patches. Also on the topic of setting expectations, you should assume that preseason and mid season bring Massive changes to gameplay.

By all means you don't have to like what I have said but good luck proving me to be wrong.

haaaaaaalpOct 6, 20181 votes

I'm fine with that. The international was amazing and I haven't played that game in 2 years. Really wish riot can pull something similar with worlds in the coming years.