I'm not Saying Ghostcrawler/splitting devs into other things is a bad idea.... BUT

Have ya not seen what happened to WoW?

Lemme give ya the rundown. They started making different things, splitting their core dev group into other projects, leaving WoW with the "leftovers/remains". WoW became a 3 button spamming game that you kill someone in a 2 second stun, hence, ruining PvP completely, and utterly killing World PvP, while also making the game completely braindead to play. Every class gets every damn thing, defense, mobility, cc, damage, sustain... Absolutely killing class design. A lot like a lot of the recent League champs/reworks are just overloaded with absolutely everything.... AKA, bad class design.

Now League has hit the EXACT same spot. 1-2 second long stuns = dead instantly. And the rumor is, well, not really a rumor, but a confirmed fact that Riot is developing some form of another game. Probably the only devs/balance people left for League, are the ones who don't actually play the game, and hate every second of their life dealing with this shitfest.

IDK, i find it coincidental that League is going down the exact same path as WoW, Annnnnnnd it just so happens to happen when a certain somebody, who hasn't changed his attitude clearly, came to this game company.

Ghostcrawler lives by the "you don't have to play the game, to balance it" code/attitude. And look what happened to WoW... The only thing good left in WoW, is their lore/cinematic/story telling. Balance wise, it's a joke. We all know the dev meme of "I don't play WoW, i have a life!" Seems kinda like the same thing is happening to this game...

I'm not saying nothing good happened since Ghostcrawler came to Riot.... Buuuuuuuut.... Either he serves as the "punchingbag" focus on me guy who takes the bullet for the company, orrrrrrr he is genuinely an utterly incapable fool who needs to play the damn game before touching things. He may not be directly responsible for some things, but he sure as hell has a lot of say in many of the current issues... Or at least he talks like he does, and he talks like he knows what hes doing...

He obviously is not the ONLY reason, but i do believe he is a BIG reason as to the current games status.

Riot i hope you use your resources wisely... This season has been a giant flop. Nobody enjoys it. Your LCS views are down, your playerbase is slashed, retired pros have quit your game, hell, lots of league streamers have quit, League youtube content folks have moved on to other games simply because they don't enjoy making content for this game because they have to play it to make said content.

I wonder how much you have to lose before you realize the mistakes that you are consistently making. What's it gonna take before you listen to the people who actually play your game?

Just my tin foil hat wearing thoughts, but you really should listen to the people who actually play your game, and make up the majority of your game. Doesn't the customer always come first apply anymore? Clearly changing the game strictly for LCS isn't working very well for the majority of the game.

Get back to your roots. Outplays, out-iteming, strategy, objective control, positioning, etc. No more of this damn 1 team fight decides the whole match/ every match consists of running around trying to point and click cc one guy and blow him up in half a sec bullshit.

League was fun when it required skill... Not when it requires high mobility/point and click cc/blow you up in half a sec bullshittery.

I return to my rock now.