Hi, why don't you balance things quicker?

Poot Lovato·12/1/2018, 2:41:37 AM·4 votes·1,154 views

Why aren't hotfixes implemented more often? Why do you let completely busted concepts run rampant through your game, completely unopposed? Why do you insist that the banning phase do your job of balance for you? Why is it like pulling actual fucking teeth to get this game to a healthy, fun-to-play state where you don't have to roll your fucking eyes every time someone enters the game with a currently overtuned champion. Why are the overtuned champions consistently the edgy, flashy, cool, hip, fan favorites? Why are there so many feast or famine concepts? Why are there so many champions who succeed without taking real risks? Why have you purposefully ruined your game and built it around making money instead of being the "for the people" corporation you pretended to be when you started?

6 Comments

HyperTechno12/1/2018, 4:08:29 AM2 votes

For better or worse, Riot likes to take there time. By waiting a bit, even if it means a half a season, they will be able to establish a good conclusion on what should or should not be changed. Just going into hotfix something without information, would be like Riot shotting themselves in the foot and changing blindfolded.

People just need to relax. In a perfect company, they would be able to do so, but Riot like any company is far from perfect.

Poot Lovato12/1/2018, 3:25:11 AM1 votes

And while I'm here, why have you made no noticeable changes to matchmaking whatsoever? Why are people of massively varying skill levels getting put into the same games? Why are almost all matches one sided? Why do you so highly favor AD champions? Why are bruisers/assassins your absolute favorite favorite classes to buff and itemize? Why aren't there more counters to mobility creep? Why don't towers do significant damage to make diving an actual risk? Why do you literally shit on 99% of your player base by making what few changes you make with the top 1% of players in mind?

xTraveler12/2/2018, 12:08:31 PM1 votes

Why do you cry so much lol, game is balanced.

Audhulma12/2/2018, 4:08:23 PM1 votes

Hotfixes are volatile and can easily introduce far more problems than they solve (because there's less testing for bugs and such), so they don't like to use them except as a last resort. It's much better for them to disable something until the next patch as an emergency measure than to push out a rushed hotfix.

There are a lot of reasons why the game isn't (and probably never will be again) healthy right now, not the least of which being that there's more than one region to listen to for starters, and each region has different tastes and metas. It doesn't help that there isn't strong enough oversight to keep stupid ideas from seeing the light of day, but basically they want the game to be flashy to try to hide how shitty it's become over the years.

Either way, whining about it solves nothing. Your choice is easy - play or don't play.

Poot Lovato12/7/2018, 12:39:17 PM1 votes

That's not a valid response? Expressing discontent with a game is how things [should] get changed? If the people we pour money into don't use their resources wisely we have a right to be displeased, and the only real way to show that is via forum posts (not that they listen to half of us anyway). But I still want to voice my opinion in hopes that I'm not alone in my discontent with a game that I've spent plenty of money on (please don't use the "it's a free to play game" argument because I'm just not patient enough to deal with that this year; it's been a long year). Also, their inability to manage multiple regions should not be our burden to bear. My game quality shouldn't suffer just because they can't figure out what to do in EU or Asia.