Lore: Enough is enough both sides STOP
First and foremost Both Riot and the community have made terrible decisions when dealing with the lore changes. I am not for nor am I against the changes at this point.
Myself and others of the community, should apologize for our actions towards Riot Opeli,other Rioters, and other community members. I myself must apologize as I had taken my argument over to twitter with both Moobeat and Opeli, I said some terrible things to both of them regarding the lore changes and my opinions on the matter and I wish to sincerely apologize for them. The actions of other community members are also inexcusable as they border or overtake the line of harassing of others, It needs to stop. We should from here on out be more respectful of others opinions on matters. It's tough but we need to mature as a community.
Rioters, especially the lore department, you are not faultless in this either. First Riot should never have allowed a department to not communicate with the community about things for so long. Second, Lore team, the way the changes were revealed was (in my Opinion) very unprofessional in the sense that from your prolonged absence on communicating. Doing a developer blog the way it was done so suddenly and without prior communication was like dropping the Atomic bomb in a metropolis and hoping no one got hurt. A reveal this large should have been built up not though suspense (no posts) but through communication and feedback. By doing what you have done you now have a responsibility to have constant communication with your players regarding lore. As you are now on damage control regarding the situation (from what I believe). If not the same thing that is happening now will happen again.
Now what I believe should have been done to stop things getting to this point even before they started. The concept of the changes (as soon as the decision was made to go through with it) should have been posted on the forums as "We are thinking of removing the IoW and LoL from the lore in the future and want players feedback on this." This creates a neutral thread seeking information regarding the changes, which then can be used to alleviate stress and anger in the community. In this thread should have been constant communication with the community about the project such as moving Skarner to Shurima to place him in a Faction location so that their stories could better be intertwined with other champions. this thread would also allow you better feedback on why players like the current (now old) lore of certain champions and what they really want kept to keep the "character" of the champion the same. This also reduces the tension built up from the long silence the lore team has given the community.
What can be done in the future is constant communication and updates. Myself and some other members of the community feel as if the changes brought much less than what we lost in terms of quantity and quality. This is the problem I believe most people have with the changes.
If there is any typos or questions regarding what I have written please feel free to state them. I will be checking on this discussion later today to see what people think. I don't care if you flame me or agree with me I am just stating what I think went wrong and should be done from here on out.
