I don't mind waiting.

I honestly don't mind waiting for content. Do I get impatient sometimes? Of course I do, but at the same time, I don't intrinsically hate waiting. That goes for real life events, that is for other gaming content I enjoy, and also for League of Legends. I don't mind waiting for a new Tribunal, I don't mind waiting for updates to champions, I don't mind waiting for balance changes.

What I do however mind is this idea of aloofness.

I don't hate the act of waiting for a tribunal, I hate that I never learn anything about its progress, what Rioters think about it. I hate that we've been told that we would be given this thing. Be it the tribunal system or updated lore, we are told that we are to be given this thing and then we never hear anything else about it. I know that lore is being worked on, I know that Lyte and his team are working to make sure that the Tribunal is the best thing that it can possibly be, I know these things. I don't mind these things. I've worked on gaming projects. Things take time. I wish that wasn't the case, I wish code or lore that I had to write was finished instantly, I wish that and models or textures that we had to design were finished in under an hour, and I wished that we could make an entire game without blinking. Just go from initial concepts to a final product in a week. But that simply isn't the case, and that is fine.

My first experience with game public relations was when I was making mods. Whenever a project got really quiet, when people started to worry whether or not the game would ever see the light of day, a developer would almost always come out in a comments section or forum and repeat the same sentence;

"Silence means the developers are hard at work".

I accepted this, because I was naive. Yes things happen, yes its always much more fun to work on a project than just talk about a project, but silence is inexcusable. In my mind, there are two types of gaming PR. There is PR for the public that doesn't know your game, and the PR for the public that does know your game. In one sector, you want to attract people to your game, and in the other, you want to keep people playing your game. Every day I see threads from people who have played this game, and they are stopping. Not because of the waiting on its own, but because of the waiting compiled with silence.

I've written a lot of this after reading Riot Lyte's post here. I agree with what a lot of Lyte is saying. I agree that things take time. But you just can't leave half of the public out. We want the process, we want the progress, we want to hear your thoughts and share our own.

We want to wait. We want to sit down and watch new developments come up the pipeline. We want to know why Ekko is getting Buffs, we want to know what the Narrative team is thinking, we want to know more about ranked teambuilder.

I'm not asking for anything right this instant.

I'm asking if its possible for me to not feel isolated from the development of a game that I love.