Riots real problem that needs to be dealt with NOW

slippykitten··3 votes·539 views

We typically do not have the slightest clue what you guys are doing. you think you are communicating, but you're just giving us ambiguous statements that are meant to placate us, with no real substance behind them.

It took just over a year to develop this entire game from scratch with 40 champs, then they released another 24 or so per year for a while. We get just a few per year now (which is actually a good thing at this point) so what are the developers working on? Why could a few people on limited budget make 40 champs in a year, but we are waiting 3 years on a rework that was supposed to be "soon"? I'm not saying you guys aren't working, obviously a billion dollar corporation isn't paying people to make finger puppets, so what are you doing RIGHT NOW!? we don't know, and that's the problem.

Trolls have been an issue from the start, I know you guys know this, so what are you doing about it? what are you working on? what are your ideas? We don't know and it makes us feel like you don't care if we get trolled in 8/10 of our games. I know you must be doing something, so talk to us, tell us, don't just ignore the posts on this stuff. So what are you guys doing about it today?

There have been champions that were said they were going to get balanced, and then you guys disappear, like cass, and we honestly don't know if you're working on her or not. Can we look forward to changes or not? You guys said you were going to, then a year later we still haven't heard anything,** what are you doing!? **

Critical information to the game has been lacking and actually decreasing over time. We can't see numbers or stat ratios on abilities without a 3rd party service. MMR is completely hidden, making matchmaking difficult to anticipate. We never know if our reports do anything, and never get context on our own punishments unless we are voluntarily named and shamed by lyte himself. Why!? What are you doing to increase clarity in the game today!? We don't know, and that's the problem.

TL;DR - I could go on and on with problems in communication, but the real issue is that we have no idea what you guys are actually working on, whether or not you even see our complaints, or why it takes half a friggin year to implement a simple change. We don't know what goes on over there, and that is the problem.

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DrtyTrolls5 votes

Report Riot for "not communicating with team"

PiRoScOuT3 votes

How is Ao Sin Coming?

slippykitten1 votes

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How is Ao Sin Coming?

He will be released "soon"

Left Hook Larry1 votes

They say they should release a new patch by 12PDT... release a new statement saying it should be a couple of more hours

This happens everytime. Why can't they be straight up with us and tell us it will take another day to fix?

Eleshakai1 votes

If you think Riot's bad... you haven't been involved in gaming very much lol

slippykitten1 votes

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If you think Riot's bad... you haven't been involved in gaming very much lol

"To whom much is given, much is required"

I've been a gamer all my life, and do my best to tailor my expectations to the company producing the game. I expect no budget indie games to be bugged to no end and sometimes enjoy the bugs themselves because of it. I didn't buy Battlefield 4 because i expect a company as big as EA to release a game that is actually playable.

Riot is now a billion dollar corporation, being born out of a few guys trying to make heir version of DOTA. I expect the now billion dollar corporation to be leagues above the dozen guys who built the game in the first place, especially in the way of communication. If the original devs were able to do 10x the work and still communicate all the time with the playerbase, then there is no excuse for them now being secretive and silent towards us.

Having said that, progress and improvement never happen when people just settle for what they get. "Hey, other companies are worse" is the attitude that stops improvement in its tracks.

Eleshakai1 votes

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"To whom much is given, much is required"

I've been a gamer all my life, and do my best to tailor my expectations to the company producing the game. I expect no budget indie games to be bugged to no end and sometimes enjoy the bugs themselves because of it. I didn't buy Battlefield 4 because i expect a company as big as EA to release a game that is actually playable.

Riot is now a billion dollar corporation, being born out of a few guys trying to make heir version of DOTA. I expect the now billion dollar corporation to be leagues above the dozen guys who built the game in the first place, especially in the way of communication. If the original devs were able to do 10x the work and still communicate all the time with the playerbase, then there is no excuse for them now being secretive and silent towards us.

Having said that, progress and improvement never happen when people just settle for what they get. "Hey, other companies are worse" is the attitude that stops improvement in its tracks.

If Riot is the best at it in the industry(or close to it, I have to admit SquareEnix has been getting better)... then telling them 'you suck' is probably a bit ignorant. That's all I'm saying.

They're not perfect, but they offer a lot more information - information that is not at ALL required of them to give - than most other large gaming companies.

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