League Community Podcast Ep. 2

Riot·12/2/2015, 12:20:26 AM·4 votes·34,542 views

Welcome to episode 2 of the League Community Podcast, a series in which we take you behind-the-scenes with Rioters to hear about their backgrounds and work on League. You can expect an installment every couple weeks or so, with Rioters from all over dropping by to share their stories and perspective. If you’re listening on iTunes, be sure to rate and review, and tell us what you’d like to see more of!

In this installment, we sat down with Andrei “Meddler” Van Roon, Brad “CertainlyT” Wenban and special guest host Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street a couple weeks back to talk about the design process behind updating the game for Season 2016.

80 Comments

Avios112/3/2015, 8:38:57 PM13 votes

"Work at Riot can be Chaotic....." I see what you did there...

Snafinity12/3/2015, 9:14:44 PM10 votes

you guys NEED TO NERF Illaoi very very broke.

iRammus42012/4/2015, 10:47:43 PM9 votes

I miss the old days when Riot would change the map to reflect the season or time of year. A snowy Summoners Rift in the winter, etc. I can't be the only one who misses this! Riot, please bring it back!

Jeskail12/3/2015, 9:09:27 PM6 votes

Not a very good job with the mics compared to last podcast. Voices kept fading in and out

ChaosThief12/3/2015, 10:40:27 PM4 votes

39:35

Graves can have a better mustache but graves can't have a cigar?

º LB º12/3/2015, 9:07:32 PM4 votes

9:55 _''breaking down the constant that marksman equals adc equals duo bot lane'' _i love this! i love that champions are breaking out of certain roles and can take on other roles which could possibly be better for the team! :D

Kaeblen12/5/2015, 9:15:42 AM3 votes

Some of the late discussion was really interesting:

"If there was a champion we did not have ideas for, we resolved not to force it. I Actually feel like some of our work on juggernauts was... forced; and hear we said 'if we don't get something massive for every marksman lets just make sure we have something that players will really love'." --37:20--

"Another thing is, changes that are bad also generate frustration" --38:50--

"by contrast, *Skarner, from the previous set of updates, was an example where we didn't get that particularly well." "It doesn't feel as tied to his core" --39:40--

"Particularly the juggernauts, we started to work on them and we had them in place, and we grabbed a bunch of artists and said 'work with us' and oftentimes they were just confused at what the heck we were doing." "and that made it feel not as great to work on." --42:15--

I know I picked up a few very negative points here, but I think the first one sums it up the most: We have 2 examples very close together of very intensive changes to champions, as well as their associated items. Darius Garen Mordekaiser Skarner VS Caitlyn Corki Graves KogMaw Quinn It makes me SO unbelievably happy seeing that the second iteration seems to be turning out SO much better than the previous. there are STILL people who are fuming over some of the 5.16 changes, but 5.22?--no, things look good.

Meep Man12/3/2015, 8:34:48 PM3 votes

Interesting look on the Preseason.

MobilePay12/4/2015, 2:44:54 AM2 votes

Redoing runes..... oh God can you redo Urgot or update he's......well..... yah

LaoBushido12/3/2015, 10:06:45 PM2 votes

When are these recorded in comparison to when they come out is there a lot of editing that goes into this?

fly2crash12/4/2015, 12:32:26 AM2 votes

Can we have a rss or atom feed for the podcast?

Solidair312/4/2015, 12:55:34 AM2 votes

I hope Meddler-Sempai notices me listening to his podcasting Syndra

Shenron Sol12/4/2015, 3:57:44 AM2 votes

Changed all marksmen? What about Varus man? Are you kidding me, lets buff all the marksmen.. you know accept this guy lets leave him alone. Jerks.

Gurshan9912/5/2015, 12:37:04 AM2 votes

Are you guys reconsidering sandbox mode?

Original DD12/4/2015, 9:02:33 AM1 votes

you stated that you changed all ranged but come on you guys gave no love for the Teemo . He still is ranged right?

Yòda12/6/2015, 1:40:38 AM1 votes

(Not related to podcast) Anyone else experiencing random chat notification sounds in the client, when you didn't even receive a message?

Evelynn Corleone12/6/2015, 6:45:09 PM1 votes

hello

UnSeenBlade012/6/2015, 7:22:10 PM1 votes

hey this is random but you should make it so that you can use mijer gift cards and get riot points case a lot of mijers dont carry them

SlideJoy12/7/2015, 2:53:06 AM1 votes

I would pay a ridiculous amount of money to buy something similar to DLC's where you can by map skins or different maps for a regular game and only specific people can play on them of course. I cannot stand this regular green summoner's rift map and i dont wanna have to go to dominion or aram and play a few lame games to get away. please please starrt selling either map skins or different maps.