I swore to myself to be honest. Always. Even when it's not easy.
So, I will be to you. Especially because I like you.
See look, Riot is a company. They got people coming in everyday doing their work, going home. A day only has so many hours, so does a workday. It's in Riots best interest, to fill those hours as efficiently as possible. I consider most of Riot's employees to be passionate about the game, so it's not only a company thing, but also out of principle. They wanna spend as much time as possible doing things that actually help their baby grow.
If you have ever spent 7+ years of your life doing something, or working on something, you might relate. You develop a certain kind of love, even for inanimate objects. Just because they are yours.
And here is the hard part; some things are more important for the game than others, Even if they care for every single bit and piece in there, they can't care for all of them equally. There will always be trouble children. There will always be parts that go smooth and need less attention. Riot tries to identitfy them and spend time accordingly.
And as any fan in the boards will assure you; there is a lot to do. A lot to fix. A lot to create. Problems to solve, to discuss, to test. And they try to get the best people for this. But we are not. We are not designers. We have barely any more understanding of game design, than some of us got from reading blogs. We don't understand the full impact most changes we could suggest would have, simply because we don't work there. Yes, I made a very successful rework suggestion once, but only because I learned what the people liked and wanted to hear, not because I knew what would work. I hope it would, but I don't know.
We are not good enough. We are not important enough. We can not provide enough useful stuff to Riot to do this.
Yes, we are a vessel of collected Karma opinions. Yes, we are the passion that would drive the opinion collection of Riot to incredible lengths, once they come to us, to ask us for our opinions and ideas about Karma, because they finally wanna work on her.
But apart from that, apart from showing them how we feel, how we experience her and what we hope for, what we find important and what we would love to have removed, we can't provide much. Personally, I would love to work with Riot on Karma. I would sacrifice so much for it. Really. But, as I said:
I swore to myself to be honest. Always. Also to myself.
I can't see this happening.
Even though I wished it would.
Sorry.
