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@Meddler & Reav3 1,460 Days With No Communication or Work on Karma

Winterkill·1/11/2017, 7:45:25 PM·10 votes·582 views

There are 365 days in a year. For 4 years Riot games, you have not communicated with players about Karma and her problems. For 4 years you have not done the appropriate work, outside of a numbers buff you later nerf, on Karma. For 4 years you have given us sub-par content that Karma is ever involved in. In 4 years you have given us half-worked on content that Karma is ever involved in. For 1,460 days, Riot Games, you have ignored Karma and the players that once enjoyed her. Here are the reasons:

  1. You shifted her playstyle and class of that a mage (battlemage) to a mash of different types of playstyle . . . . . most notably her being an enchanter that presses E+R the entire game. Karma went from being a unique mage previous to her rework, to nothing more than a shield bot mid to late game. You created items that amplify her shielding abilities on others, which bolsters her into the support role even more. The current E+R is not unique and promotes a boring playstyle that doesn't even fit her theme. Iron Locket of Solari has an active that grants a mass shield to allies. It's already in the game. Why was Karma's shield bomb removed at the expense of an ability that already exists in the game, isn't benefitting her theme and playstyle that she should have, and is promoting passive and boring gameplay? Choices.

  2. You removed Karma's dress. You removed Karma's fans. Karma is supposed to be a leader and someone the people of Ionia look up to. She is a leader of old and new traditions. Karma is a force that uses her abilities to protect her allies and punish her foes. Karma is supposed to have this presence about her that is graceful, alluring, but also intimidating and powerful so that her foes know she is not someone to mess with. Is any of that reflected in her visual update that you couldn't even be bothered to finish? Is any of that reflected in the unoriginal skin lines you put her in and Winder Wonder skin you couldn't even be bothered to make worthy of a 1350RP skin? Choices.

For 4 years and 1,460 days, Riot, you have given us nothing for Karma. You are not communicating with players at all about Karma. You are not doing the appropriate work on Karma. You are giving us sub-par and half-worked on content on Karma. This just doesn't go for Karma. We have Mordekesier, Shen, Vlad, and other champions with failed reworks looking for SOME work to be done on them. We have all of these champions looking for SOME sort of communication about them.

Over the course of 4 years and 1,460 days . . . you have worked on Ryze 7 times. You have spent almost 208 man hours on Ryze. So my question is, why is Karma being ignored for all this time and not getting the appropriate work done on her, but you did it for Ryze so much? Choices, Riot Games. Justice for Karma. Justice for Mordekeiser. Justice for Shen. Justice for Vlad.

(I apologize if my math is bad. )

  • Stay frosty,

Hiemal.

6 Comments

IxtaliKing1/11/2017, 8:28:26 PM6 votes

We've had little bits of communication, we've had:

So we have had some, just not as much as other champs and rarely anything important/informative. What we absolutely haven't had is any answers to our questions as to what her their direction is for her, which probably is because they don't have one. It begs the question, why if they are not sure know what to do with Karma won't they speak with her community? Who knows, but what they should be aware of is what they are doing to Karma's community (dividing it) and what they are doing to Karma (ruining her).

SilverSquid1/12/2017, 2:03:06 AM3 votes

I mean, they worked on her. Not by improving her, but they worked on her. Like when they killed shieldbomb and decision making in 5.10 Or when they overbuffed her shieldvalues in 6.6 that they realized NOW wasn't a good idea. You could argue that they aren't working on Karma, because none of their changes have to anything to do with her personality, history, playstyle or general idea. Instead they are working on the empty hull they are making her. But hey, I'd prefer to call this failing their cause or something. Because arguably they DO work on her.

Also I want one Rioter to explain to me ONCE why removing the shieldbomb was good, necessary or preferable. Why removing a core identity in favour of a number buff makes sense. I have never seen them adress the issue, not even in the patch they did it. For over two years now I seek this answer and no one can give it to me.

I wonder why.