Riot, you deserve a cookie

Gearpower·3/4/2016, 1:09:50 AM·5 votes·812 views

Riot, you deserve a cookie. Regardless of balance issues in whatever meta, this is still my favorite game to play when I get the chance (which isn't often, alas). You may not do everything right, but it's the little things that make you a company and game I adore.

Like saving the RP art, and then celebrating it. Like seriously, what a way to show that you care. The occasional bodying of a salted troll in the boards by a rioter the quality events and cinematics (I'm a sucker for cinematics) numerous other things, some too small to remember.

Do you do everything perfectly? No, of course not.

Is this still a game and a company I love? Heck yea

you may have lost other loyal fans, but you haven't lost me.

So thanks, and keep being awesome. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

5 Comments

maxaroni1183/4/2016, 1:20:10 AM1 votes

upvoted bcuz its wurf

PunkDisorder3/4/2016, 1:20:54 AM1 votes

This game is the one that I take the most breaks from. Despite the quality of their other events and other stuff that I agree is good, I sometimes doubt that their balancing processes are taken seriously. I quit this game often because it isn't fun in some metas (the last 2 patches for example). They seem to disregard all player concerns about balance (See Soraka, Annie, etc.) and even when things are balanced, there's so many kits that go against the design values that they praise so highly (See Soraka, Annie, etc.) Does anyone else remember what they said about the Soraka rework? "Dealing damage and getting kills is fun in League, and Soraka kills the fun (ironically) by un-killing her teammates. There's a place for healing, but only when carefully implemented (like Nami's which costs 130 Mana and she has to make a choice when using it in lane for poke or the heal)." After all that, what do we have? This Soraka, the one that has a heal on a 5 second CD, costs an insignificant amount of HP and mana, and can be healed back through starcall (thankfully they made starcall dodgeable). So Uncle Rito, look through the kits of your 53%+ win raters (usually that point is a good indication that skill is not the only factor of a champs win-rate) and look for what you can trim (and when I say trim I mean slice with a claymore) to make them have unique identities and make there be a reason to pick some champions over others. Right now, I see no reason to pick Ahri when you can play Lux. I see no reason to pick Vayne when you can pick Lucian. I see no reason to pick Nami when you can pick Soraka. So on and so forth.

Only Play Darius3/4/2016, 1:36:29 AM1 votes

Haven't lost me yet. I have faith and a few changes could fix most of the games problems right now.

La Barbotte3/4/2016, 2:43:08 AM1 votes

same here, even tho this season almost everything is broken (meta doesnt make sense, assassins are tanky, tanks hurt like assasins, adc everywhere, mages almost all non viable, those that are are cancer) but still i dont think riot wont fix this we simply have to give them time, we are going throught alot of changes and many more to come this year and balancing things is harder than it seems. its easy to go on the boards saying that rito balance team are bad at their jobs when you dont know all the little things that are to be considered for every tweak they make and they arent immune to mistakes (looking at you xin) so good job to riot for having the most successful game out there and giving most of their player base what they want (skins, frequent patches, new champions, reworks, etc) (im still tilted aoshin isnt named aoshin but w/e)