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Has Riot giving up on LOL? I think so

DiggymanDigsHole·8/31/2019, 1:48:12 AM·28 votes·11,536 views

Many big streamers are talking and I'm really starting believe them. Nightblue3, IWILLDominate, Imaqtpie and many more are saying that Riot has about 4 guys sitting in the corner of this billion $ building working on making more money on skins and the rest of the 3000 employees are working on TFT or other new games that will fail too just like TFT. Why abandon the game that made you billions? This game was made huge by it's players and streamers but Riot thinks they should take all the credit for it. They need to get PROS and Big Streamers who play their game everyday for countless hours involved in game development if they can't hire team members with knowledge of the game (real players)

Let me be perfectly clear I'm not shamming Riot management. I just want them to open their eyes and have a open mind to to ask for help from players who day in and day out play their game.

We need to keep this discussion on top of this forum so Riot can wake up and maybe start helping the players a little. Hit That Arrow Up to keep it going Players. (Top Left hand corner) Thank you.

33 Comments

TheDistruptor8/31/2019, 1:53:34 AM9 votes

I can't believe Riot removed your post over this... wow their must be some truth to this. I agree they really are out of touch with the real players

BananaRagings8/31/2019, 2:58:32 AM5 votes

I hope they really do try to reach out to players who know what they talking about. I know there are a lot of players that have no clue about the gameplay and how it works but some do make a living on it

Urdiel8/31/2019, 2:03:54 AM5 votes

Yes, I think Riot should focus more on improving the experience of the players in their main game modes and attract attention with better rewards and novelties, not only add more and more champions, I played TFT sometimes but the truth seemed to me very boring

IamTHEonlySilent8/31/2019, 3:21:32 AM4 votes

I find it hard to believe that Riot has not reached out or maybe they have but don't care or don't have the resources because they are working on too many side projects

Glîtchy8/31/2019, 4:09:42 AM4 votes

Players: Riot can we please get more reworks

Riot: sure, here are 3 new champs

Players: https://youtu.be/YcAHHKY3Y0I

mack91128/31/2019, 2:07:07 AM3 votes

You believe anything streamers say ?

Celestya8/31/2019, 5:06:25 AM3 votes

Its...weird how much they've seemed to detach themselves from League, as well as the players who put them where they are...which is just poor business in general. Seems like a trend in the industry to ignore gamers and focus on share holders though...which is a shame, as its a failing practice.

On My Kill List8/31/2019, 2:57:42 AM2 votes

Riot already have multiple pro players and big streamers involved in league's balance. i don't get what your saying at all OP. anyways i could say alot honestly but we already know why riot is going down. catering to asian market,abandoning its western roots and market in order to get big bucks. many of us long time league players could point out exactly when this started happening which is back when NA splash arts and champion portraits which looked much better and were superior were being systemically replaced with inferior chinese splash art and champion portraits nobody asked for or wanted.(karthus vgu which was out of the blue and only done to make him not a skeleton so as to appease the chinese market) systemic damage creep and countless bad decisions done left and right;introduction of prestige skins,event passes,removal of rgms,introduction of inferior ARUF and trying to place a balance lever for fun games modes like URF.(which if you really sat down and thought about it actually made no sense;riot should've never tried to balance urf and just let us pick what we choose;if anything they should've just buffed champions who were weak in urf with something insane like how they did with reworked nunu's e instead of try to balance it systematically. losing the spirit and sight of what made this game great. not putting anymore effort into league. (can't remember the last time we had anything interesting happen that wasn't some pay to get loot fiesta) it has merely become a business. anyways i doubt your complaints or mines or anyones will change anything. league is a chinese game now. it is part of their cultural identity. they own it. they own 100% of it. they own 200% of it. they own 300% of it. no. no. no. just accept it OP. this is their game. we are just freeloaders. stop trying to complain and enjoy it for what it is. every now and then maybe just maybe we might get a bone from our chinese overlords.(maybe nexus blitz for a day or 2 hours;maybe a nerf to riven for 1 patch before its undone the next patch cycle)

The MechE9/1/2019, 4:08:35 PM1 votes

This is unreasonable. They obviously have more than four people in a corner running LoL. Just imagine how many people it takes to coordinate esports, balance, new champion development, skin development, new tech, events, stories, etc.

Are streamers worried about abandonment or something? I can't imagine Riot abandoning the only game they have lol.

Zac x Me9/1/2019, 2:49:14 PM1 votes

I call what currently is happening the "German Online Game Hoster Syndrome". Because all German online game hosters do this, they milk the game until it's dead, all they care about is short term profit maximization. Money money money money money until the game reaches a horrible unplayable p2w state where even p2w doesn't work anymore.

Not even 1 microsecond of thinking put into making the game better, increasing its lifespan to make even more money with it over a very long time period instead of just 3-5 years quick milk, dead, next game or close down company once the playerbase no longer falls for it.

Hence why they all end up dead within very few years and their games either get shut down or the rights bought by some other online game hoster.

afmghost9/1/2019, 3:37:24 PM1 votes

Truth be told, there isn't a reliable means for riot to save league.

Drop all side projects: this is the obvious choice, but the game has been the same for a decade now. Without enough variety, the game gets stale pretty quickly. I mean Dunkey complimented riot when TFT came out, and that is saying something.

Reach out to streamers: I don't know. The fact is that streamers are entertainers, and are not necessarily fluent in game design. The game would cater to them and leave everyone else to bite the dust. Plus, many of the high tier league streamers seem to be the definition of toxic. I don't think any of us want those kinds of people in our games.

Reach out to pros: That would leave over 99% of the playerbase to bite the dust. Just as bad as streamers to be honest.

Reach out to players: to many players and styles to boot. Plus doing one thing is likely to leave the majority unhappy.