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Proof that Riot does not listen to the community.

HumanPerfect·8/4/2015, 9:29:50 PM·3 votes·719 views

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/champions-skins/champion-update/champion-update-fiora

Seriously, just look at pretty much ALL of the comments there. From completely changing her gameplay identity as a 1v1 duelist to a completely unnecessary visual downgrade... is it so much for Riot to take a step back, listen to what the community thinks, and maybe re-evaluate if something needs to go back to the drawing board before going to live?

I understand that Riot has probably been working on this for a while... but if the community doesn't want it, they don't want it. At the very least these changes needed another PBE cycle till Riot could ascertain why the community is so divided on these changes and possibly address those.

As it seems now, no matter HOW poorly this was received Riot was just going to go through with it anyways and pretend like they were doing the community a favor.

6 Comments

TraakSC8/4/2015, 9:30:54 PM2 votes

Game designers designing their game. Okay.

Señor Karthus8/4/2015, 9:33:27 PM2 votes

Actually people are praising the new gameplay. The only complaint was that ridiculous healing area after the ult that made no sense. The complaints were more about the looks, splash and skins. Go cry somewhere else.

67chrome8/4/2015, 10:05:18 PM2 votes

Is it so much for Riot to take a step back, listen to what the community thinks, and maybe re-evaluate if something needs to go back to the drawing board before going to live?

I'm not a huge fan of the Fiora rework because it's changing her from a flashy glass-cannon assassin into a "meh" tanky DPS champion. Also her ult was cool and I played her for the chance of getting pentakills.

That said, consider the fallowing:

  1. People where up in arms with Sion's rework. The most competitively nonviable champion in the game. There was literally no reason Riot had to keep him as the same, but a wide number of people complained about that rework. All other reworks tended to have bigger backlashes.
  2. People don't praise things in the forums. They complain about things. Pretty much all the feedback here is negative feedback.
  3. You're asking Riot to listen to random people on the internet. People on the internet are collectively not smart, not wise, and do not make good decisions.
Señor Karthus8/4/2015, 9:47:25 PM1 votes

Wow you quoted 7 comments. Riot should certainly reverse the changes.