Team Up Week’s a wrap

Compare this to other events, where there's some sort of Featured Game Mode or something in the client. It's slightly ironic that the Minions, the one thing that would have let everyone in the community instantly know something's up, were a reward and not the signal that the event was going on.

Half of the community is absolutely aware of this. They don't always think rito is the bad guy. Sometimes, people just need to vent their feelings. Even if they antagonize the company that has brought them dismay, they still come back, don't they? We love rito as much as we hate their teases. ggwp

I think Riot's intention was to make people spend more RP during the Team Up Week to disburse their loss for making PP Mundo free. PP Mundo will never be free if we don't spend any RP and as you can see, the point scale was evidently made for that. This is actually quite unfair and evil because we thought it was purely community effort-based, not that type of Commerce game that Riot plays on us.

Wait, were we going for something other than the pool party minions?

Thats what I was crossing my fingers for. I saw PBE gameplays with those pool party minions. So cute! I wish they would let them stay for the whole summer or till the next update XD

I did the math, and if this came out in january 2014, we would have smashed the event cap, and gotten mundo within HOURS of it coming out. The reason why is because we had 27 MILLION daily players in the NA region alone. This event was global (-china) and we could have done it extremely easily. But because it was poorly promoted and when people actually heard of its existence, it was from friends who were trying to get PP mundo. I honestly think if people knew about the event just a day sooner, we would have hit about 75 million points fairly dang easy, and people can't say it was impossible for a 5-6 day event, because the math agrees it could have been done in less than a day of it being out.

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Hey!

Lots of folks contributed hard work and great ideas for this promo, but I'm the guy who wrote most of the words, so a good chunk of what you're highlighting falls on my side of things.

So the people who made the top goal impossible to reach in the first place aren't responsible for the community's inability to reach that final milestone through normal methods?

We'd never intentionally set you up to fail.

I disagree. Level 6 was simply not achievable without buying RP and spending it on other players. Since a small percentage of the player base buys RP and most use it for themselves, this event was doomed to fail from the start, intentionally or otherwise.

The major problem is that we failed to message that later levels were genuine stretch goals, rather than easy mode, feel good point totals the community would rush past.

I can accept this, but why wasn't this addressed in the planning stages? We players not privy to the numerous meetings before the event and those things that you find instinctual (because of repetition). It should have been the first thing explained that, yes, you need to buy RP and use it for mystery skins in order to get Pool Party Mundo.

That's on me and other publishing folks who worked on the event.

So, is Riot Publishing going to sacrifice their budget to give the community free Pool Party Mundo skins since your team failed to explain how the event really worked? (Of course not, I'm just being facetious.)

On the RP front, it's about balance. When we made the decision to include gifting in the promo, it unlocked the ability to responsibly go bigger with the rewards. We've never done this before, and the tuning here wasn't perfect.

If the intent from eCommerce was to get players to buy RP and spend it on other players, then the tuning was spot on. The players, however, chose to not buy as much RP as those... marketers (and I say that word with all the venom I can muster) hoped and now the entire community feels disappointed that they couldn't reach what was an impossible goal.

I'm not the best guy (just a writer) to detail the decision process here, but that's a basic framework.

I'm "just a writer" as well, and I hope that you can tell those who put the event together how disappointed we all feel and why we feel that way.

As with everything, we're learning. It's only our second community rewards style event, and our first on a global scale. I hope this helps some.

First, are you really going with the "we're learning" excuse? This only reinforces the notion that this event was doomed to fail from the start, no matter whose "fault" it is. I'm sad that those who worked really hard to achieve an otherwise impossible to reach top prize and I'm disappointed that we have another example of Riot only pretending to be for the community they keep saying they're all about.

Off the top of my head I can think of four major problems with this.

1. Plenty of highschools are just now ending their school year, meaning final exams and studying for them. They didn't have the time to grind out in 5 v 5.

2. Father's. Day. Weekend. I have a dad, I spent time with him Sunday, lots of my playing buddies were offline all day. Family matters to plenty of people way more than a game.

3. This was badly advertised. More than a day to reach the first goal? That's bad, we have an active community and despite the first problem we should have had more points in one day. I didn't know about it until a friend told me about it.

4. Why why why was it limited to 5v5? Why couldn't you include rewards for 3v3? Why does Twisted Treeline get no love? It's hard to get four other people online who are willing to play and not already in a party of some kind. This made it hard for so many people to participate.

Mundo has to say Mundo's own name a lot, or he will forget it. Do you have problems with Mundo's need to say Mundo's name lots of times?

Woooaaaahhhhhh Mind=Blown

how is he going to read your answer?