Why is it that the only Riot team that doesn't give their opinion on community ideas...

soulbanana8··7 votes·2,060 views

is the Balance team? The Skins team has given plenty of how they feel on certain skins(see the evil nami skin, fan art, and more), the Lore team seems to actually enjoy the discussions that talk about lore(as seen in this thread http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/oTlyWZBu-any-and-all-rioters-how-important-do-you-think-lore-is-to-this-game-and-why ), and player behaviour has tried to fix problems with the community. Why not the balance team? There hasn't been enough feedback from Riot that discusses the balancing of certain aspects of the game, especially champions and the jungle. Nothing about the Veigar changes and nothing about the Mordekaiser changes that were coming up. There was a jungle discussion thread at one point, but that was taken down for some reason. But what really annoys me is that... we all play for the game. The skins are an extra aspect, same with the community, same with the lore. So why is it that those in charge of the game itself aren't discussing anything with their community, or at least, not enough.

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Pryotra6 votes

the Lore team seems to actually enjoy the discussions that talk about lore(as seen in this thread http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/oTlyWZBu-any-and-all-rioters-how-important-do-you-think-lore-is-to-this-game-and-why )

Bioluminescence isn't on the Lore team. She's helped a lore event, iirc, but is not actually a part of that team. While I like Bioluminescence and her effort to communicate, using her as an example of how other teams are communicating is not only misleading, it's false. Bioluminescence was communicating as a Rioter and as herself, and nothing else. Unless you have another example for the lore team communicating, this is false.

Overall, Riot has some fundamental communications issues that they have hand-waved for far too long. Gameplay and Balance is only one team, of a company full of teams that do not, on average, post on their own boards.

OneMoreDaySK2 votes

So true. Especially with what Jaredan had to say about narrative. bitter laugh

Strawberrycocoa2 votes

Balance team is probably worried they'll have players jumping down their throats like candiru if they show themselves on the Boards.

Learnding5 votes

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Balance team is probably worried they'll have players jumping down their throats like candiru if they show themselves on the Boards.

Yeah, so to combat that. Do things nobody wants and that will calm everyone down.

MajorPain93 votes

I have heard this for years through out gaming forums. No it will only makes things worse. Always have.

Phife1 votes

Because everyone is entitled to their opinion and whether or not they want to share it is up to them. I think DJ sona is really dumb. My opinion.

HellFire2132 votes

I believe this was an attempt to get more people playing supports. I liked this idea at first, but the problem is is now every one is playing DJ Sona, and I haven't met anyone who actually knows how to play against her.

MajorPain91 votes

Easy. Leona or Nami.

Deserted Sand1 votes

I trash any Nami I play against as DJ Sona. All about going around in unexpected ways so she can't land her bubble.

OneMoreDaySK1 votes

Eh, really? I've already seen counterplay against her when folks were discussing the 27+ nerfs that hit her since the rework. Just pick a hard engage like Thresh or Leona, and pop her, because in order for her to do full effective poke, she has to get within AA range. That or if you pressure her hard enough, she'll run out of mana trying to keep up vs your own poke due to her 70 mana heal.

Urdnot Entar1 votes

The QA team doesn't really communicate with the community, for the most part, and they don't do a lot of bug fixing either, but then that sort of expresses what they think of community feedback there...

Penny131 votes

Braum's Mustache should definitely scale with AP

AbyssionKnight1 votes

Narrative doesn't comment on ideas either. Some of them even say they refuse to read fan ideas.

At least Balance will take some time to read some balance threads.

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