People can talk as much shit as they want about Riot

Mister Support·May 20, 2016·56 votes·2,302 views

As long as it isn't about the individual employees themselves. Because my god, those people are some of the nicest and most enjoyable people to play with. Just finished a game with Riot Terra and had a wonderful experience. Learned they work with engineering on featured game modes and that their favorite mode is black market brawlers. Through most of the game made some jokes back and forth in all chat, gotta love these employees! Hell, even Gypsylord and Riot Phrost V are fun to talk to from my own experience.

So you all can talk trash about the decisions at riot or game aspects, but the individual workers that make this all possible work their asses off, still spend time playing the game without a single drop of toxicity, only showing kindness and humor, and are wonderful people overall.

39 Comments

japan hate accMay 20, 201613 votes

The world needs more people like you. :)

SpârkyMay 20, 20165 votes

I totally agree with you. Wish more people were like this

Mister SupportMay 20, 20162 votes

Umm...thank you? I didn't expect in my thread praising how wonderful Rioters are that I would get praised xD It does mean a lot though ^_^

japan hate accMay 20, 20161 votes

Yeah, I just meant people who can actually differentiate people and a company, and just nice in general. Have a nice day :)

VolgariaMay 20, 20166 votes

Thats probably why I usually just downvote and move on when i see stuff like "DYNAMIC QUEUE IS FUCKING GARBAGE RIOT DO SOMETHING YOU IDIOTS" whereas if I see an actually well constructed thread with good points as to why DQ is good or bad (or anything else for that matter) I'm much more likely to read it.

lolptwoMay 20, 20165 votes

I am one of the harshest judges of the game's direction/ESPECIALLY in Player & Behavior moderation, but if there's one thing I can tell you guys. Is that I respect each and every worker at Riot. It's their job, I don't know them personally, they are doing their job. Most of them don't make executive decisions and even if they did. At the end of the day, they are hard working people working on a game. Put some respekt on it

MagearnaMay 20, 20161 votes

Exactly. Some people seem to forget that at the end of the day, Rioters are people just like you and me, and they deserve to be treated with the same respect we'd give any other person. I don't think I've played a game with a Rioter that I didn't enjoy. Go Rioters :)

SexySoapTurtleMay 20, 20164 votes

Lol? Why are you acting surprised. If a company was acting like shit to their players then that would be pretty stupid.. OF course they were nice to you. Thats their job.

Aids cuz LeagueMay 20, 20163 votes

Until you realize that half of the people you played with acted nice so they didnt get banned, but in reality are toxic af and the employees make up like .00005% of the playerbase and the rest is 20% positive, 25% afkers, 5% actual understandable disconnects, and 50% toxic. The game is trash dude, please just start realizing it already, I cud care less about new game modes when all it does with the mode is make it unbearably crappy cuz the balance team doesn't know whats going on in their own game.

billxxMay 20, 20165 votes

Did mommy not get you a snack pack?

Aids cuz LeagueMay 21, 20161 votes

It was Go-Gurt, but not a balance team.

WolfBVMay 20, 20162 votes

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Until you realize that half of the people you played with acted nice so they didnt get banned, but in reality are toxic af and the employees make up like .00005% of the playerbase and the rest is 20% positive, 25% afkers, 5% actual understandable disconnects, and 50% toxic. The game is trash dude, please just start realizing it already, I cud care less about new game modes when all it does with the mode is make it unbearably crappy cuz the balance team doesn't know whats going on in their own game.

Where'd the extra .00005% come from?

Aids cuz LeagueMay 21, 20161 votes

From my shitty asshole.

Only Play DariusMay 20, 20163 votes

But, Tencent doesn't care. All they see is the bottom line.

Mister SupportMay 20, 201612 votes

This isn't about Tencent or the company Riot itself. This is about the individual employees being wonderful, kind, hard working people that we take for granted.

WimbledofyMay 21, 20162 votes

But you met one employee not all of them :/ who knows there may be a few bad employees out there.

AstronomaMay 20, 20163 votes

WHY WOULD I TALK SHIT ABOUT A SHIT?

General Esdeath May 20, 20163 votes

Some of them don't work on choice making, they play and give feedback about general playerbase. If I talk shit about an employee (Let's say CertainlyT) I'm talking about him as a designer for things like champs, not personality. Same with how someone else working there could be the hugest jerk but make balanced champs.

The DeckownerMay 20, 20162 votes

The oly one I talk shit about is Lyte cuz his "data". well he is gone anyway

PbJMpP4xzkMay 20, 20162 votes

more like they can't afford to be toxic, because they would love their jobs, so yeah they write stuff but they think otherwise about it get phacked.

St0rmlnMay 20, 20162 votes

NO YOU'RE WONDERFUL PEOPLE OVERALL!!!!!

Vistha KaiMay 20, 20162 votes

As long as it isn't about the individual employees themselves.

With the exception of people like Lyte, you mean.

Troll for TrumpMay 20, 20162 votes

Couldn't they just be acting professional in public? Like how people can sometimes act good on Stream but be toxic ingame when alone.

VanjieMay 20, 20162 votes

I sometimes come off like i blame them personally. As a person I have nothing against them. As workers I find them to be complete imbeciles when it comes to balancing and updating champions. They dont listen to player feedback at all, dont rectify mistakes with horrible champion updates, spend way too much time and effort on the same champions every single year, and take forever. It shouldn't take you two to three years to update Karma and Morde when you have acknowledged you missed the mark with their updates and identity. Shen is now part of the Karma and Morde club.

As people I do not hate them. As a producer of a product I think they miss the mark a lot.

FovereMay 20, 20162 votes

How else would someone behave if it would cost them their job to be anything but perfect?

MisterSkiMay 21, 20162 votes

Umm they won't be toxic cause there will be real world repercussions for them if they do. Cool that you got to play with a rioter and all but you are one of the few minority that will ever get that chance.

Miss LuxannaMay 21, 20162 votes

I wouldn't mind playing with a Riot member...Phreak-Senpai~

Supreme Senpai69May 21, 20162 votes

To all the people saying "of course they're nice it's their job." No, it's not their job to be nice. Some people are nice simply because they're nice people. I work in customer service and whenever I try to save somebody money or tell them to have a nice day, it's not because I'll get fired if I don't. My boss couldn't give two shits about how nice I am as long as I'm not rude. It's because I enjoy being nice and treating people how I want to be treated, which is mentally exhausting when people constantly treat you like a bag of shit.

Riot can be a shitty company. A really shitty company. But the employees that make up that company work their asses off and despite all the negativity they have to sift through, they're still really nice and respectful people. Not because they have to be, but because they are.

FovereMay 21, 20161 votes

That's hardly comparable.

It's not their job to deal with people in game.

It is their job to be the epitome of good behavior when playing games using their riot account.

Everyone accepts rudeness from a phone CS rep, where a screenshot of a red being rude to a player would go viral and dredge all sorts of crap.

Supreme Senpai69May 22, 20161 votes

But i'm not talking about being rude. Reds SHOULDN'T be rude. I'm talking about them being -nice.- They could easily just remain silent instead of being rude, but if they're being actively nice and polite, it's because that's who they are and not because they have to be.

XeroKimoMay 20, 20161 votes

So did you get info from Riot Terra that Black market brawlers joining in the rotating queue?

Mister SupportMay 20, 20162 votes

Nope, I was caring more about having a fun conversation with the player, rather than trying to get insight on what Riot has planned. I figured the person is already asked that a lot so I wanted to be more friendly and thoughtful about things.

I WILL TROLL YOUMay 20, 20161 votes

Reported for making positive comments about RIOT.

Any post making RIOT seem as anything other than evil dark monster from the 7th layer of the abyss sent to dominate planet earth are not welcome on these forums.

Swae7May 20, 20161 votes

ty for this thread

YoungFarmerMay 20, 20161 votes

Yah whenever I refer to Riot in a post I'm always talking about the people who make all the bad decisions. All the Riot employees I talk to are super nice. Riot kateykhaos (butchered it probably) seems like an insanly nice human being.

Davy CrockettMay 21, 20161 votes

imo, we trash talk them because they dont give us contexts and information on what they are doing with their game. so we give them hate and assume stuff so we can rationalize their decisions that we do not like.

Dextix LTMay 21, 20161 votes

Unless it is CertainlyBroken.