First of all, none of this is constructive criticism - people here are ignoring perfectly valid opinions/points and just raging for the most part.
This is a tu quoque and a missed point fallacy. Got a two for one here.
This isn't about anyone in the community, this is about how people feel Eternals is a line to far where people on the forums feel ignored and that issue is getting only more and more prevalent with how now Rioters completely ignore certain boards and rely on volunteers to wade through everything instead of finding meaningful conversations every now and again and encouraging the people who do behave well as opposed to those who just make toxic posts. Now when anyone is angry, it's considered "toxic" but this is actually a toxic mindset that divides the community and creates arguments rather than discussions.
And you have conducted a statistical analysis to ensure that the "people" you've "met" are a statistically representative population?
Another tu quoque. Doesn't matter what anyone else does, if you make a picture that I commissioned and I say the lines look a bit sloppy when you send me the lineart to be approved, if you tell me that I should've drawn it myself, I was ask for my money back because you're an asshole. Other people conducting surveys is not what's up for discussion. Your post was irrelevant and clear to see with malice intent on it so people called you out on it.
Pouring your heart out does not immediately equate to having valid or logical arguments that merit a Riot response
Criticism is still criticism, it doesn't matter what a person does, and also when there is a pretty large backlash about a feature of a game from the playerbase themselves, that normally warrants some type of response. Even if it's an utter bs one like "We'll take it into consideration" or "We'll just put it out on one server and if we get enough adopters, we will bring it to all servers". It can easily be not what people want to hear but a sudden and large backlash normally warrants a response, just like when they removed the legacy cursor.
Unfortunately the problem is that these reasonable suggestions are but one sentence in a thread filled with a bunch of BS, and that one thread is just one thread in the sea of BS rant threads.
This is a straw man with no relation to this thread or the current conversation
It's not just a kill tracker though.
It mostly just tracks 3 things. Braum is the only example I know off the top of my head but for him it was CC length, amount of stuns with passive, and takedowns meaning kills + assists
So really it's just a kill tracker.
Why should Riot have to spend the time sifting through a bunch of crap just to respond to the one person?
It's really not that hard to wade through a couple forums every now and again, especially when a big new feature is coming out, and also it's really easy to pick out most trolly and hateful posts from legitimate normal ones. Stuff like profanity, direct insults, and sarcasm are all good indicators that a post should be avoided.
This post is an example of a good one. No insults in the title or body, no profanty, no sarcasm, nothing could be taken as belittling or offensive, it's just someone saying they are unhappy and things that they would prefer.
Also it's not like they only have to say one thing, they could join the discussion if they really want to, we won't tell them to leave and the people who do will probably get downvoted to hell so their response can't be seen.
they simply refuse to accept that some people will like and buy these things and want to be given everything for free.
Well you see, many people with me included see this as gouging your playerbase for money. Of course they can start making a league a subscription base game and an additional one if you want to play ranked and then an ADDITIONAL pay wall if you want ranked rewards. They are totally legally able to do that and people would be fine with it. I know myself and a lot of this community won't stand that and because we live in a mostly open market, we'll just go and play some competitors MOBA or just forget MOBAs entirely because clearly League wouldn't be worth our time or money. You may think this is just me going to a far extreme but it's what I have to do to tell you that for me, we're already hitting the extreme of what I'm willing to put up with and I'm just about at my breaking point before I go and find anything else to do and spend my money on. Riot has been taking features from other free to play games and putting them behind a paywall for only a select few to actually access which mostly splits the playerbase into those who have money and those who don't.
Eternals is a short term and short sighted profit nab that will segment the community more, make those without wallets leave, make those who can easily afford this stuff support bad behavior, and ultimately drive the priorities of the game from making it enjoyable and something that people want to spent money on, even it's only 10 dollars a year, into something that's just a cash sink for the rich and those who are bad with money who accidental ruin themselves. I would be fine if any special Eternal flairs would be paywalled but not the feature itself.
Message boards have been proven in multiple large scale scientific studies to be very far from representative samples of a community
Gonna need some evidence for that claim since you're so keen to jump on other people about lacking evidence.
God I thought basic statistics was being taught in school. Please actually try to research this and learn it.
If you have to punch down at someone instead of tackling what they said to you, that makes your argument look weak and yourself, sensitive.
Calm down.
Take a breather.
No one is sending the FBI to raid your house.
You say do research but yet show no evidence to support your claims.
You also need to understand that there are loads and loads of people supporting posts like both here and on the forums and the original posts about Eternals so it's not like it's really just a vocal minority.
It would be quite difficult to get a larger scale sample that isn't biased due to most people on forums tend to crusade against things they don't like when the discussion gets really heated but we could possibly get riot to make a client side poll like they've done before to possibly see some type of result. It's unlikely though because talking to riot as a company is impossible and it's hard to find out who actually does what even though it's easy to find who works there and just talk to them on twitter.
Honestly your first response would have served much better if it at all was actually relevant to the post in question. There are plenty of people who made a post where they just said "Fuck riot" but this wasn't one of them why you needed to state "First of all, none of this is constructive criticism" because it's blatantly wrong and ignorant of what the OP even said.
