Has Riot ever polled the community forums before making big changes?

Funkin Dunkin·May 6, 2017·2 votes·168 views

Seriously, for as long as I've been playing this I have never seen a "Vote now!" or "Let your voice be heard!" sticky thread that tells us, "Hey, we plan on doing some really weird shit to champions that don't really need it, what do you think?"

Usually I just find out a couple weeks prior that guess what, changing more things and there's nothing you can do about it. I really want to know what straw poll they get their information from.

4 Comments

Deep Terror NamiMay 6, 20172 votes

Forum users actually make up a very tiny portion of the League community, and it's typically the dissatisfied players that are the loudest so they aren't a good representation of what the players want. They've definitely gone to the public forums (including 3rd party platforms like Reddit) in the past for feedback that directly resulted in change (Graves's cigar) or used the website to poll for a skin (Infernal Diana), but usually it's a bad idea to head to the boards to poll for major change.

When they can get some major development on the boards going again, I'd like to see integration with the client, which I believe would allow players that don't normally visit them to participate through the client even if they don't visit the boards announcements to read and discuss it.

Funkin DunkinMay 6, 20171 votes

Ok, so let me ask this. The Zac change. First, when did the concept that he needed to be changed first arise? Who brought it up? The Players? The owners? Who then felt that a go ahead on the change was necessary? Was it the players again? Something like this change really bothers me because looking at what Zac used to be, he was a fairly commonly used champion, he had a great kit, wasn't overly powerful but definitely had the ability (like most champions) to change the outcomes of a match. Now, he's had such a change that not only removed him from other roles that he used to be able to perform just as well, if not better, than in the jungle and was removed entirely from him. I'm truly amazed there was enough support for this change for it to even occur and it makes me truly curious who is the governing body that collects this information and decides, yes, this is a good change?

Starcraft243verMay 6, 20171 votes

Once upon a time Riot listened to the player base about a skarner rework.

Skarner then proceeded to get a solid 70% winrate.

This was the last time riot decided to listen the balances toughs of the player base !

The moral of the story is that people dont know what they want and when they happen to really know, they dont know how to make it happen.

flibitydooMay 7, 20171 votes

there were some big threads made by rioters asking for champion identities months before poppy and taric were reworked. The idea of course being "what part of this champ do you think is core to their character and should be preserved?"