Riot has moved on

FlyingRoboticCow·6/17/2018, 11:28:58 AM·1 votes·718 views

I've come to the conclusion (wrong or not) that riot is changing its game not around balance but purely to fit its pro scene. what I mean is that they continue to change the game into what people want to watch instead of what people want to play. Riot (Tencent) I believe has intentionally shortened games simply because viewers got bored of watching 40+ minute games. They changed turrets just to enforce the four people in bot lane meta because they felt viewers where getting bored of watching teams just swap turrets (just one example of them changing the game not around balance but around forcing better tv) and now here we are halfway through season 8 and the games are faster than ever. Unfortunately with franchising taking hold and bigger and bigger money moving into the pro scene I think it's unlikely that we will ever get the game back towards whats fun to play instead of what they think people want to watch and to be honest that makes me sad.

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Futanarilover6/17/2018, 11:50:31 AM1 votes

While I don't believe that is the sole reason for the changes these last couple patches but I agree that its plays a huge part. Point about shorter games peripherally supported by the fact they got rid of best of 3's. People got "bored" watching those, it doesn't benefit the pro players in any way.