I really hope that riot games will be one day a monolith of the game industry however...
Beck, Merill, guinsoo, pendragon, Coronach, Volty, ezreal, morello :
Those guys worked hard to make one of the biggest games in the world.
Riot Games and league of legends has been threw very difficult phases in the past but they never left down players and always tried to keep quality even with low budget.
Those guys could make you a triple A game without huge $ investiments because they invested their free time, their life for the game. They wanted it to be a succes and hoped for a better future. Thank to this mentality they cared a lot for the players feedback. When community had suggestions or wasn't happy they didn't lose time : they directly communicated and announced changes.
Nowadays morello doesn't work on lol anymore and one of the worst thing that happened to league was Coronach departure from riot games. This guy alone has created around 1/5 of lol champions and his designs were rock solid. Since he left riot lost a monolith in champion designs and developpment. The new unexperimented rookies wanted new approachs and innovative designs... the unexperience of those created a lot of mess in the game.
What i find terrible is that those guys i mentionned before they made a triple A game without a lot of money and got it close to be balanced.
Nowadays riot makes 1.6 billions a year and does worse than riot and lol at his beginning. Riot has now high budget but the quality by the actual strandards of gaming industry is very low.
2014 : new map rework 2018 : changes on the old chest keys system which was way more friendly to the players 2018 : still a lot of old champions to visually or to gameplay update 2017-18 : popular champions favorised by gameplay improvement and skin comception 2018 : destruction of a processus of balance that took around 9 years to be optimized Every champion was meant to be balanced around runes and masteries. 2018 : crazy metas, crazy champion designs, unfinished and non polished ideas that were brought live. 2018 : extremely low communication with players, non consideration of players feedback, riot had to wait the rage streamers and of the pro players to began to act... 2018 : the massive amount of players lost have brought them to unbann permantly banned accounts.
Does all of this looks like a 1.6 billion profit a year gaming company ?
You are trying to be like blizzard but you are getting closer to ea games.
As i said earlier the guys mentionned at beginning made it better faster and with higher quality (for its time) with perhaps only 1/100000 of the profits riot currently has.
The uptades were better they focalized on the players need and feedback. The communication was better and they didn't wait 6 months to makes big changes going in the direction of the community. If players were massively complaining about something the next week it was solved.
So tell me why do you do worse with more money, more employees and with a big reputation ? In the past riot games worked way better.
Did you decide to rest on your laurels and to wait for money coming from the sky ?
Blizzard would have updated visually all the existing champions one month. In 2 months they would have updated all the old existing kits. It has been 4 years now since map update and the promise to update all champion we still have potato malphite, kite anivia, toilet paper amumu, 3bit caitlyn, candy skarner, flintstone udyr, power rangers pantheon etc...
You want to look like the amazing blizzard, rockstar games or even ncsoft ?
Well you are light years aways from the speed and ratio quality/speed they work. They work fast/ they adapt fast to their communities/ and they release high quality content at high speed.
Riot you are more like an old diesel engine. By working slow your content quality should be way higher than the companies listed above. But you can't. You tried this year to release content way faster than in the past it was a big failure. Why ?
You need to listen to your gaming comunity and you need to hire experienced employees and some rookies that will be formed by the old guys.
This year was really bad but not a failure because you finally reacted !
Don't become like ea and everything should be fine. I hope for you all the success possible because i do love riot games and its game league of legends. What i hate it's when riot games try to alienate his game to bring more players to it.
Let's hope for a good season 9 and that we players and riot games will continue to walk together and with communication this time.