Screaming at Riot Doesn't Help Them Improve.

toxıc sIut·4/7/2015, 7:40:55 PM·38 votes·5,754 views

If you right something insightful on boards or Reddit, they will most likely see it. Reds lurk a lot. Many of them even respond. But, slinging shit at them doesn't do anything for them and (no fuckin' duh) has a very negative impact on the community-company relationship. By being a winy vocal minority you're plaguing the view of the community. They have a lot of shit to do and they don't need the playerbase breathing down their neck making the situation worse.

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RiotRiot Baconhawk4/7/2015, 8:48:49 PM35 votes

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Daen4/7/2015, 8:59:24 PM12 votes

While I totally agree with you, I think a reasonable part of the issue here is a lack of consistent dialogue from Riot's end. Some players can end up being pretty unreasonable or misguided ("skin artist fix server u noob"), of course, but quite a few complaints I see are actually just people trying to elicit a response for an issue they feel passionate about.

It's definitely damaging to everyone having these kneejerk extremely critical threads/comments, but it wouldn't be happening anywhere near as much if it were more vilified than it is now. The initial comments might be somewhat hateful or aggressive, but the underlying premise is maybe something people can identify with and want explained.

Wolfenstyne4/7/2015, 9:26:06 PM9 votes

As soon as they can start releasing, anything, on a decent timeline sure. If replays, client, lore, etc. were not coming SO slowly I could believe this post. From all appearances Riot is a group of talented people that is being completely mismanaged and as soon as League is no longer popular they are pretty screwed. Why does it take SO long to get any features or additions to the game? They only have 1 game, tons of employees and money, but all content and features comes super slow. This tells me they have very poor leadership.

"They have a lot of shit to do"

Yeah, and none of it is getting done in a reasonable timeframe. Nobody in charge to make deadlines and direct groups. Just a bunch of pure chaos and people running around doing whatever they want.

Daedalus8714/7/2015, 9:49:20 PM5 votes

Screaming at Riot doesn't help them improve.

But apparently, neither does writing well thought out messages.

im always salty4/7/2015, 7:45:02 PM4 votes

yeah like having a buggy client . or letting the server crash harder then the great depression BUT YOUR RIGHT they do gotta put alot of effort into those skins and champions for us to buy so they can keep supporting there child ( LOL ESPORTS )

PoisonedTea4/7/2015, 9:27:12 PM4 votes

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If you right something insightful on boards or Reddit, they will most likely see it. Reds lurk a lot. Many of them even respond. But, slinging shit at them doesn't do anything for them and (no fuckin' duh) has a very negative impact on the community-company relationship. By being a winy vocal minority you're plaguing the view of the community. They have a lot of shit to do and they don't need the playerbase breathing down their neck making the situation worse.

It is ok to expect quality out of the biggest game is the world.

I know their is problems and unexpected stuff but Riot get no excuse for not putting the best quality out their they have so much money still.

Rivvy4/7/2015, 10:20:55 PM2 votes

Meanwhile, the meaningful post about the east coast servers

"We're working on it"

Solaxo4/8/2015, 7:06:59 AM1 votes

Maybe people scream at Riot because calm dialog doesn't work?

Xela Syab4/8/2015, 12:50:59 PM1 votes

idk it's been a month and they havent fixed the friend request issue, I think i need to yell at them MORE

Rivvy4/8/2015, 1:58:50 PM1 votes

I think their lack of real connection to the community, in the sense that they don't let us know what they're doing for anything that is an issue, is the reason why people scream. They don't really communicate at all. They just "causally post". At least that is how I feel. I'm not asking for spoilers on skins or game modes. I'm asking for direct communication between the company and the community about the issues that affect the community or both company and community at the same time.

SmknWdl4/8/2015, 2:01:17 PM1 votes

no upvote bad grammar

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toxıc sIut4/10/2015, 1:49:05 AM1 votes

This discussion: 90% people bitching about whatever-the-fuck not being implemented. sigh

wop4/7/2015, 9:36:48 PM1 votes

*write

Rivvy4/7/2015, 9:48:41 PM1 votes

So 4 years of insightful posts have fixed...?

Mecha MaIphite4/7/2015, 10:34:27 PM1 votes

Kind of like how raging at your team doesn't magically turn them into LCS players.

im always salty4/7/2015, 11:03:22 PM1 votes

they could make different server locations and have more then one server considering they have one right now for north america but china ( a smaller land mass ) has about 20 servers

Rrett4/8/2015, 12:24:55 AM1 votes

Having nice discussions on the forum With them also doesn't mean they won't ignore any well thought out and agreed upon input either.

They listen, they also ignore as well.

Urdnot Entar4/8/2015, 3:53:14 AM1 votes

So, a distinction needs to be made here: screaming versus negative feedback. Yes, screaming doesn't help and isn't good. On the other hand, Riot deserves all kinds of negative feedback, and they need to start listening. Maybe if they listened, people wouldn't feel they need to scream?