Putting quality first.

Niyumi·5/13/2017, 2:38:47 AM·2 votes·348 views

That's when you:

  • Allow champs that are broken and pick/ban across all ELOs to stay broken for months at a time (sometimes never even nerfing them), always claiming "to wait and see how this and this change pans out" when a moron could tell you that further changes will be needed.

  • REPEATEDLY buff ADCs (and AD champs in general) when they're already mandatory in every game and decide games by themselves.

  • Lie every single time you make a public statement.

  • Openly admit Lee (who warps the game) is broken, but also say you won't significantly nerf him because he makes money.

  • Buff champs right before or after they get a skin to boost sales.

  • Spend a year to rework a champion when an amateur team in college could do it in a week or so with comparable or superior quality.

  • Make double standards about just about everything in order to protect your money makers while removing any competition they have.

  • Reward incompetence, and make the easiest, safest champs the strongest by far so that whales feel good about themselves.

  • Sell out to some Chinese greed fest.

  • Create an F2P game in the first place -- which is WELL KNOWN as the most profitable model at the cost of quality in the base game.

  • Put so few resources into your development teams that even releasing skins (your income source) takes you months to years to accomplish.

  • Go so far as to say fixing something like the Jayce hammer bug and the transform bug is a "waste of time."

... Yeah. That sure is putting quality first. You know, I remember a time when half the shit Riot has pulled off would be enough to put a company out of business. People expected quality, and if the developer lied and half-assed everything, they'd be laughed out of the industry. Yet, thanks to the morons that enable things like DLC and F2P, Riot is now a very large company with a bit of a stranglehold on the MOBA genre.

Guess the meaning of "putting quality first" has changed over the last 10 years or so.

(Oh and, by the way Tyrek, look at how many downvotes I get)

2 Comments

SexyBabyJesusZ5/13/2017, 2:40:41 AM1 votes

money makes decisions unfortunately