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

soulbanana8·2/27/2015, 5:35:33 PM·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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Pryotra2/27/2015, 10:44:13 PM6 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.

Strawberrycocoa2/27/2015, 5:42:26 PM2 votes

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

Phife2/27/2015, 5:39:01 PM1 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.

Urdnot Entar2/28/2015, 4:21:10 AM1 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...

Penny133/2/2015, 10:38:10 PM1 votes

Braum's Mustache should definitely scale with AP

AbyssionKnight3/2/2015, 11:29:40 PM1 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.