[Question to Rioter] Boards utilisation

Flemman··4 votes·3,324 views

Hi everyone

Even if I know that the boards are still in the beta, something really start to bother me these past days

Back in the time, when big change to the game where discussed with the player, the thread were confined on the NA forum leaving other region player no easy way to join the discussion (and I tough it was normal since riot didn't have the tool at that time to handle the possibility of 2 players with same summoner name but from different region on the same thread)

Now that we have the boards, I personnaly though that Riot would give it the priority over old forum for the discussion about big thing (lore change, rework) so that every player can share is though and ask their question with much visibility to the concerned Rioter (while still make a closed thread on old forum with a link to the one in boards to let more poeple jump in the discussion)

But, with the most recent exemple "Let's Talk Cassiopeia", it seems like old habit can't be change. Hear me, i'm sure player are happy to talk about Cassiopeia, but the choice of making this thread in a particular community leave a bad tast in the mouth of those who can't express themsleves there. When you don't have tool to bring as much community as possible to the table it is fine, but when you have it, it just feel like beeing left aside for no good reason.

You said most of the time that you want to improve your communication toward fan base, isn't using more the boards for big discussion a good step to reach that goal? What prevent you from using boards with link in old forum? Is it just hate from "Forum only" player? (personnaly I go on both :p)

I don't know if I'll get and anserw (even if I hope so^^) but it's stil better to ask than do nothing and keep thinking about it^^

5 Comments

RiotRiot Stashu5 votes

Hey Flemman! I think you're 100% correct here, and my Cassiopeia post really should have been on boards. I'm still super new to forums/boards posting, but I should have checked to see which would have been the better platform for this sort of discussion. I'm really sorry about that =[, and I'll keep this in mind in the future.

Daen2 votes

Appreciate you addressing this, Stashu!

I don't necessarily think there is a "correct" forum on which to post official things, but the Boards tends to be where many of those types of threads have been recently. That being said, extra traffic on the Boards is always interesting since we're a reasonably small community. Plus, it can be a bit easier to quickly see what is most relevant in the conversation on the Boards rather than GD.

Canastus3 votes

I hope you still follow the discussion in the thread despite your departure, I don't think anyone could muster the strength to read over 100 pages of feedback once they've returned. I realize it'd be even harder to reply to all of those posts but please read them.

There's one post from the user 'Aviladel' which I'd like to highlight. I think you'll find it to be very insightful. Cassiopeia relied so much on her ability to harass and poke that it became her main source of damage, this rework pretty much shifted the focus to an ability which is incredibly risky and rather impractical to use since it renders you entirely immobile.

The risk/reward-ratio is absolutely skewed to her disadvantage now. In the end she deals less total damage to champions than before, just because her gameplay has become entirely onesided and situational.

Flemman1 votes

Well, thanks for the reply (even if you still express yourself only on NA forum >-< )

Guess I'll be stuck in the "reading the discussion only" for this rework :p

Riotgenexp1 votes

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