https://twitter.com/OccupyGStreet/status/498473310078783488
"We're going to slowly get back to using the League PBE to test crazy ideas, not all of which will make it live."
Personally, I'd love to see some of those skins that IronStylus asked the community for to be on the PBE so we can vote/give feedback on and get some skins that the community wants!
I dont think its about skins. More like balance changes as the season 4 is coming to its end
skins from IronStylus is highly unlikely. First of all, skins are the kind of products you don't cancel, since once they're ready to test it, most of the job is already done, as opposed ot champions who can be tested with crazy weird buys (did you know Zyra's plants used to use Ashe and Jarvan's models for inhouse testing?).
Otherwise, I would expect masteries to change again, and this time in a better way than S3-to-S4 did (let's be honest, it fixed little to nothing, simply moved sediments around). Similarly, I wouldn't be surprised to see more unfinished reworks (Ashe/Soraka) or incomplete features (replacement for rune combiners, achievements). If GC says it's gonna be crazy, you can expect it to 1) be crazy and 2) less than you expected.
I am absolutely with that: the community learns to understand that the PBE is for trial and testing, and not imminent doom for live: if they want to do changes to the game and those changes does not need testing then they can also skip the PBE phase and just patch the live: they did it in 4.14.
With weird and absurd things i mean stuff like the muramana and bloodthirster changes, alternative champion skillsets, new jungle, Ghostcrawler riding a pony that nukes lanes with frost and fire ( damn mages!), Nexues that becomes alive and move around the map and dynamical changing enviroment.
Not stuff that i straightly wish, just to set the expectation magnitude.
Being that it's GC, I imagine the "crazy ideas" are gameplay ideas, not things like skins.
The PBE is a testing environment, that's one of the many things it's for. If it turns out to be too game breaking, or players hate it, or they hate it, good thing it was just on the PBE, and never hit live.
It probably has something to do with Season 4 ending somewhat sorta soon. Every pre-season, there's been a (relative for that time) radical change to the game that oftentimes changes quite a few aspects about the game itself. These new "crazy ideas" Ghostcrawler is hinting at may just be the kicker for the new season.
I'd be more interested in the gameplay changes, as testing outlandish stuff will give it the possibility to progress to live - and those are the sort of thing that make the game exciting.
