Does anyone honestly like the new "Ally Slain/Enemy Slain" headers?

helligdage·Oct 9, 2014·257 votes·14,787 views

"We've read through your feedback and are making a number of tweaks and improvements aimed at making announcements cleaner and less intrusive. For clarity"

...

"Summoner names have been removed from some announcements for brevity."

Where was the consensus taken that this needed to be changed? Why couldn't I have participated? This is sort of a big deal imo.

Idk maybe it's just me, but I much prefer to see/read "xx420blazexx has slain fioramaster69 ." What we got with this update ( Enemy slain ) just feels really bland to me. I don't like it at all.

I think this should be reverted- or at least should not stay the way it is. Anyone else with me?

**@Riot **Many people wish for a toggle option- would this be at all possible?

248 Comments

Potato DocOct 9, 201478 votes

For one thing it ruins the clever summoner names like "double" or "20whitekids" since the whole point of them was to make the whole slaying someone funnier or more insulting

DirewolfiezOct 9, 201430 votes

Jesus420YoloSwag has slain YoMama.

helligdageOct 9, 201439 votes

For one thing it ruins the clever summoner names like "double" or "20whitekids" since the whole point of them was to make the whole slaying someone funnier or more insulting

For real. I for one really looked forward to crazy/silly names like that popping up on my screen. And I never once thought it was invasive or got in the way of my gameplay, nor do I know anyone who has ever felt that it has.

It looks really....unprofessional. Lacking. Incomplete :(

NarasimhaOct 9, 20146 votes

Going to play devil's advocate real quick here. You're saying that having strange and more often than not demeaning names was actually more professional? I mean, if anything, this IS the professional option. Just person 1 killing person 2.

helligdageOct 9, 20148 votes

Going to play devil's advocate real quick here. You're saying that having strange and more often than not demeaning names was actually more professional? I mean, if anything, this IS the professional option. Just person 1 killing person 2.

I mean in a company sense, I'm not quite sure how to explain it. Like...someone began working on something, grew tired of working on that something, didn't finish said something, yet it was released anyway cough Diablo 3 cough And let's be real here- more often than not League names weren't on the side of demeaning anyway but more so creative and silly.

It looks unprofessional- the layout- on the side of Riot, not on the side of us players, I guess.

meatbeater88Oct 10, 201414 votes

Professional wasn't the right word for it.

For a game, the original announcement was better because it was silly and appealed to the players(customers) more. Its not like we are working in an office building or in a grocery store. This is a video game.

Garlyle WildsOct 10, 201425 votes

RIP "The Entire FBI has slain Your Mother" (this was an actual thing that actually happened)

TaarkiOct 11, 201415 votes

At least it wasn't, "Your Mother has slain The Entire FBI."

RisurinOct 9, 20143 votes

For one thing it ruins the clever summoner names like "double" or "20whitekids" since the whole point of them was to make the whole slaying someone funnier or more insulting

Sprees still state names iirc

helligdageOct 9, 201413 votes

For one thing it ruins the clever summoner names like "double" or "20whitekids" since the whole point of them was to make the whole slaying someone funnier or more insulting

Sprees still state names iirc

b-but us support mains

HeadinPantsOct 10, 20141 votes

For one thing it ruins the clever summoner names like "double" or "20whitekids" since the whole point of them was to make the whole slaying someone funnier or more insulting

While, I agree, I will say that it did help with the one thing Rito has been obssessed with recently.... You guessed it. summoner 13

Daddy Space LionOct 10, 20144 votes

For one thing it ruins the clever summoner names like "double" or "20whitekids" since the whole point of them was to make the whole slaying someone funnier or more insulting

While, I agree, I will say that it did help with the one thing Rito has been obssessed with recently.... You guessed it.

A business that doesn't communicate with its audience is somehow related to clarity?

Toeknee99Oct 9, 201440 votes

I agree about the change. I don't like it because it feels so detached. It doesn't feel like people are playing the champs, like a bot game.

ZulgainesOct 9, 20148 votes

I agree about the change. I don't like it because it feels so detached. It doesn't feel like people are playing the champs, like a bot game.

It may be that's what they want. I mean, I can't think of any other game in existence, since the dawn of viyda itself, that has a community as sensitive as LoLs.

Heck just yesterday I ganked bot, held off on last hitting the enemy, gave them a triple kill and a tower and was told to "get out of their lane" for the second time, since the first time I got first blood double kill off of it and they raged. The things you see are really amazing sometimes.

RaptameiOct 10, 20147 votes

Heck just yesterday I ganked bot, held off on last hitting the enemy, gave them a triple kill and a tower and was told to "get out of their lane" for the second time, since the first time I got first blood double kill off of it and they raged. The things you see are really amazing sometimes.

"Vayne PLZ come mid or we can't contest baron" "[all] report this trundle for flaming"

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ZulgainesOct 10, 20147 votes

"Vayne PLZ come mid or we can't contest baron" "[all] report this trundle for flaming"

"Guys, free dragon" "Someone, guys, free dragon" "I just need someone to hit it like three times" "Guys, I see you right near it" "pls respond" An ally has been executed! "[all] gg nub jungler"

futuresight23Oct 9, 201431 votes

I guess that wasn't a bug. Now I feel embarrassed for reporting that on the bug forum.

Regardless, it was a change that didn't need to happen.

Daedalus871Oct 10, 20147 votes

I guess that wasn't a bug. Now I feel embarrassed for reporting that on the bug forum.

Regardless, it was a change that didn't need to happen.

I also thought it was a bug.

PokeprofOct 9, 201421 votes

Honestly, I enjoyed the Headers from the previous patch. They looked nice and detailed, and the only time you ever saw the ones with fangs and the like was when people got multiple kills (Which was a lot less often then you thought.). The current ones ffeel almost like I shouldn't care about the people I'm playing with what so ever. It's like 'Oh, Thresh died... ok.'

Before, when I saw I name, I thought of a person, now, not so much.

helligdageOct 9, 20148 votes

Honestly, I enjoyed the Headers from the previous patch. They looked nice and detailed, and the only time you ever saw the ones with fangs and the like was when people got multiple kills (Which was a lot less often then you thought.). The current ones ffeel almost like I shouldn't care about the people I'm playing with what so ever. It's like 'Oh, Thresh died... ok.'

Before, when I saw I name, I thought of a person, now, not so much.

^ This is basically my thought process behind disliking the change (other than the obvious dull factor). It just doesn't feel 'human' anymore, much like what a previous poster stated: "Feels like bots." Well said.

JBvxZkL30dOct 9, 201413 votes

It feels as well as looks...terribly generic.

Caustic CrusaderOct 9, 201412 votes

The thing about the new headers is that they fit perfectly with Riot's recent goal of changing things in a way that pleases nobody but does displease a fair amount of people.

FlaminMoeOct 10, 201411 votes

is this a part of the whole "summoners don't exist anymore" thing because now it's starting to annoy the hell out of me

Cj B DirtyOct 9, 201410 votes

Eh, in my opinion you should have the option to toggle..

AngelicateOct 10, 20149 votes

I prefer the old announcements, just because it's nicer to see your name up there and I've seen a few funny names. Just yesterday I read an announcement that said "a grown woman is on a rampage!". It was very entertaining! Now it seems like the players aren't really a part of the game. :(

dialMARK4acti0nOct 9, 20147 votes

It's ok but aesthetically dull

MitsuOct 9, 20146 votes

Rito pls. How am I supposed to get my name out there by slaying streamers when my name doesn't pop up?

Dream ForeverOct 10, 20146 votes

No, please change them back riot. Its actually terrible

VyresOct 10, 20146 votes

I very much dislike this change, it feels bland and looks very boring. It may as well say Bot 1 has slain Bot 2. The way it's worded and presented too makes it seem like the first champion has slain the second, which is how it's always been displayed, but it's meant to be the reverse which is just awkward and disorienting.

Bad change all around, it didn't need changed. I don't understand why game companies always want to change things that have nothing wrong with them.

MSTRSPLNTROct 9, 20145 votes

I'd give it a solid "meh"/10.

IMO: there was nothing wrong with the old announcements

Caldwell AzvianOct 10, 20145 votes

I feel it dehumanizes/desensitizes people in league. I mean, there are always those people that rage that remind you there are people there, but a lot of the more silent ones, it just makes the game feel foreign, as though those aren't named people and more like bots. You could almost just as well change their names to Summoner 1,2,3,4,5 respectively instead and only show usernames out of game. I don't like the feel it gives to the game.

anotherAmishLadyOct 10, 20145 votes

I also REALLY miss the summoner names popping up when people die. Some of them were hilarious, and all of them made the game feel more like I was playing with real people as opposed to alone.

Why did they remove this? It seems like such a dumb idea. Someone's probably just trying to be politically correct or keep the little dead kid from feeling upset or something...but that has no place in a combat- and objective-focused game like LoL.

Daddy Space LionOct 10, 20143 votes

I also REALLY miss the summoner names popping up when people die. Some of them were hilarious, and all of them made the game feel more like I was playing with real people as opposed to alone.

Why did they remove this? It seems like such a dumb idea. Someone's probably just trying to be politically correct or keep the little dead kid from feeling upset or something...but that has no place in a combat- and objective-focused game like LoL.

Politically correct is an oxymoron.

It's been decades, and people still entrust themselves to an oxymoron. It's like "military intelligence".

DirewolfiezOct 9, 20144 votes

I don't really like it. I preferred the way it was before. Now I only get to see the usernames if I'm looking at the champ or if I press tab.

( Enemy slain )

Taric wouldn't do that to his waifu.

helligdageOct 9, 20149 votes

I don't really like it. I preferred the way it was before. Now I only get to see the usernames if I'm looking at the champ or if I press tab.

( Enemy slain )

Taric wouldn't do that to his waifu.

"slain"

;)

I Had One BeerOct 9, 20144 votes

i liked the old headers wtf is riot doing

egoSniperOct 10, 20144 votes

Agreed completely. Riot needs to stop fixing things that aren't broken or they're going to end up breaking their game.

ZyyyZOct 10, 20144 votes

I hate this new change as well. I agree that it should had been a toggle option. Let's face it. We all love killing things in League and have our name plaster all over the announcement.

TenSlashTenOct 10, 20144 votes

Your mom has slain a poor white boy Kim Jong OOM has slain The Goverment 10/10 has slain IGN

CrownsyOct 10, 20144 votes

Agree 100%. its a awful change, and i suspect it was in relation to the whole "lets eliminate summoners, the backbone of our entire game!"

I hate it. It was fun to see people's names pop up. I agree that it now feels like I'm playing against bots. Not that Riot has cared for about 2 years what the community thinks, but they should change this back or at least address why they think this was in anyway a good idea.

RaptameiOct 10, 20144 votes

Agree 100%. its a awful change, and i suspect it was in relation to the whole "lets eliminate summoners, the backbone of our entire game!"

A summoner has reconnected! -> Reconnected!

Only you can hear me, Summoner! What masterpiece shall we play together? -> pling plong

Adagio, summoner! -> ploinnnggg

Welcome to Summoner's Rift! -> Hey! Listen! Hey! Listen!

Summoner Spell -> Instant Cast Cantrip for Non-Magical Individuals

Summoning platform -> SHURIMA

Summoning... -> Being born and trained in the arts of war...

Minion -> Endlessly Reassembling Mysterious Gold-Carrying Clockwork Automaton

Summoner -> Mad Moon

Is that a short joke?! -> Why did I make a short joke to myself?!

[PLAY] -> [ASSUME THE ROLE OF IMMORTAL CHAMPION]

[Configure Controls] -> [Grow different Muscle Nerves]

MotherChurchOct 10, 20143 votes

I do not like the change either. Seems completely pointless. Someone hit the nail on the head when they said it makes games feel like bot games.

Please revert this change Riot!

/petition

JakethenightOct 10, 20143 votes

I hate the new headers, feels way to impersonal. They should make an option to change it back in the interface menu.

Captain ColonOct 10, 20143 votes

Couldn't agree more. My reaction upon seeing it for the first time in game was "why did someone even feel the need to change this?" It would be one thing if it were a change that didn't really affect anything, but this is just downright bad. I think having the names on there makes people remember on a subconscious level who's really wrecking face...that's a good thing. It helps me remember at the end of the game who I might want to add as a potential duo partner.

Universal BoopOct 11, 20143 votes

That was intentional? i thought it was a bug, that's really upsetting knowing that it isn't a bug... Bring back the old announcements.

ZanphyraOct 11, 20143 votes

Honestly it looks less professional now than it did before.

JivvieOct 17, 20141 votes

Complaining because of the way you see kill streaks? Just... I have seen it all from this idiotic community. When you go to DOTA foruims, all you see is people agreeing to visual updates and such. Nothing but praise. And if it actually seems bad, Valve considers it and everyone is happy. Nope. Not this retarded community. We can't see the double kills correctly. Lets make a stupid ass post about something.

Think this may be a maturity issue. Just like some kids prefer League over DOTA because DOTA seems a lot more dark and graphical. League is very cartoony and people with a child state of mind will find that better. Even with the VU, league is going a bit darker than the normal cartoony look.

Pretty sure people will find ways to complain about that too.

However, the new theme should match the VU perfectly.

43161549_DELOct 25, 20141 votes

Wanna know something you forgot to mention? DOTA 2 (not DOTA since DOTA is the only good DOTA mod) sucks. Literally has taken so many things from League ( I enjoy playing Dota 2) . Dota's community is more toxic then the OCE server. Sure we complain about these small things. Because that is all that there really is to complain about. We all love the changes, be it we have grievances when something we loved is nerfed, or removed (the ionic spark from seasons ago). When servers go down many of us make new accounts for different servers, during the LS incident i made a EUE and a EUW account just so i could continue playing. So please before you say our community is idiotic think about it. This new theme is the only thing we have to complain about. Literally one of our very small things to complain about (other then lore. RIOT HOW DARE YOU) . Our community is not idiotic. now i summoner 11 your comment and your hate.