Dear Riot, This is how you can reduce complaint threads without making balance changes

All of us would love to see less angry complaints on the boards. As fiery complaints pile up here day after day, your team loses incentive to consider the boards as a valuable resource, and that's a lose-lose situation for everyone here.

There are things that can be done right now to mitigate some of these complaints, and you wouldn't even have to make any balance changes or patch releases to do so.

All we need from you, is for you to inform us about what the values are within your balance philosophy. The community at large may have a misunderstanding about what Riot's balance goals are for league right now.

If you look at the core of every player's balance argument, we have a really hard time when we encounter champions that "break the rules," but what does that even mean? Well, its a simple comparison of one champion's abilities vs. another, within a particular player's perception - a simple comparison within the complexities of personal bias. The most challenging aspect of this is how a player develops their idea of what is fair in a game.

What builds each player's personal understanding of fairness are the rules that are laid out before them, and their personal experience with said rules. The most important part here is that the more ambiguity that's left in the rules, the broader the interpretation of rules the players will take.

In a nutshell, if you don't take the initiative in explaining the rules of your balance philosophy, then players are going to fill in those blanks instead - which will lead to endless complaints, because there is a gulf between personal expectations and reality.

Please, just educate us on what your design rules and goals are, so we can all get on the same page. Because if you don't advocate for yourself and your design strategy, some people will continue to make unproductive comments.