Mordekaiser (Read) Why riot isn't responding.

That's actually a good reason to keep him powerful. Lore and what not.

To be fair, yeah he sucks at communicating, you can't lump it all on him. The majority of ideas for changes to the rework could be summed up as "Revert it!" Which was pretty much off the table. Riot told him to try and rework the champ into a duo lane champ, he did his best, people complained because what Riot wanted wasn't what they wanted. And to be honest, I can't think of anything that wouldn't result in exactly what Riot doesn't want, Morde going back to being a purely solo lane champ.

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Well, what do you expect? From the moment Morde's rework was announced, Rioters didn't care. CertainlyT's post on PBE forum in nutshell would be: majority of testers: "This rework is crap". CertainlyT: "you know nothing, only I am right". The players just started to rage on CertainlyT because of how he was completely unwilling to change anything on PBE (in contradiction with Repertoir, who handled Garen rework perfectly when it comes to communicating with fan base imo). Then, the silence begun, which wasn't broken until about week after patch 5.16 hit the live servers, when finally CertainlyT decided to break the silence and posted under one of Malicious Metal's post. When you look at the responses CT posted there, not all were downvoted, people started downvoting him when he again started talking that only he is right and that the design choices he made were good. And then. again... silence... Sorry man, imo, Morde fans have rights to be pissed off about whole situation. Mord's rework was just handled super poorly, especially when you compare it to how other 3 juggernaut reworks were handled at the same time.

I was there and that's a very accurate account of what happened

Well, what do YOU expect? A relatively small group of players is insisting that they have the right to dictate the game's development, and are responding to the realization that they don't with rage. Of course Riot doesn't care. They can't afford to care about something like that. In response to reasonable threads about Morde, they've already said what they have to say, and that hasn't stopped the boards from being spammed with more threads. There's nothing else for them to do here.

Maybe they gave the rework to CertainlyT BECAUSE they knew some specific players weren't going to like it, and they trusted him of all people to keep a stiff upper lip about it and be professional. I think I found the thread you were talking about. I haven't heard much from him before, but I found him to be reasonable. In fact, he's smarter than most of the people who write on these boards, but that doesn't really surprise me. It's really the reason he's so "bad" at communicating. He's not. It's just hard to communicate with people who aren't thinking on your level. Lots of people have called him arrogant because they don't understand him. If that seems like a cop-out, well, it's easy to call something a cop-out when you've neglected your own burden of proof in challenging it. People who don't understand why they're wrong are still wrong.

It's worth noting that every post from him in that thread has a net positive vote tally, in spite of the number of people here who apparently hate him and disagree with everything he says. Maybe that's because he never actually said "you know nothing, only I am right". Instead, he explained why he made the choices he did, and nobody had anything to say on the matter that demonstrably proved him wrong. Some people just WISH he were wrong, and are frustrated that yelling louder didn't make him listen. The most condescending thing he said was that players were not learning to use Morde's new kit effectively, as he assumed they would. And as much as it may seem he was blaming players for the poor results, he was right. NOW, people are saying Morde is OP. Morde mains may not have wanted that, but what they did want had already been judged unhealthy for the game, and it was off the table.

"I had a lot of feedback from people saying Mordekaiser was a nagging problem on the game as a whole to balance against feedback from the fewer but more passionate people saying they wanted their champion unchanged. Based upon the totality of the circumstances, I made the decision I felt was better for the overall health of the game. I don't regret it, though obviously it is difficult as a designer to change something that many of your players enjoy."

He's just doing his job, and he may not be perfect, but he certainly has a better grasp of what it entails than all of his haters. Raging about his champions, or about Morde in particular, is not going to accomplish anything. Malicious Metal is one of few actually being reasonable, but again, old Morde is gone for a reason. As far as your mischaracterization of CertainlyT's response and attitude, I have to call BS. He has justified himself, and not merely been dismissive.

But what exactly is that going to do?

Riot has already responded in a fair number of the threads and have said a lot of what they can or needed to say so there's not much reason to keep repeating their answers if that question has already been discussed. There's also the issue that there's no unified agreement by Mordekaiser veterans about what to do with him beyond: remove the xp passive (which a Riot recently stated in their Q&A thread was being considered) and that the dragon feels gimmicky. These are certainly important pieces of information for feedback but often player's feelings on the matter are just stated and not backed up with other important experiential data (like how and ability feels vs. how effective it is; personally I don't think Mordekaiser's new Q visually looks fitting to the amount of power it has) or potential solutions.

While plenty of the multitude of Mordekaiser posts have valid points, I've also seen the community's attention to him massively inflated beyond its actual amount by things like daily or bi-daily posts from the same players as well as responses from the same people. I've actually started recognizing names on these boards just from the sheer number of times I see them, which is a bad sign when I am quite bad at remembering names and I don't even pay attention to them when I go into a post.