@Meddler, No Communication Regarding Karma
Meddler, this is yet another attempt for us Karma mains to get you and your team to COMMUNICATE with us about Karma. What are you doing? Why have you for the past three years not done an ounce of work on Karma besides a number buff, that you later nerf?
I am really making this because I read a post about how Riot thinks they are not communicating enough with us about champions and items. Well, here is your chance. You didn't listen to the community three years ago when you removed her entire identity, her fans, her dress, her shield bomb, and much more. You have multiple Developers saying conflicting things about Karma's current state. One Developer says that she is in a fantastic place and her visual update is great and fully imagined. Then there is another Developer who thinks she needs minor work done on her and a fully imagined visual update. Within your team there are conflicting opinions about where Karma is. It would be nice to have a definitive stance on where Riot lies with Karma and what you are planning to do with her. At this point you have yet, in the three years you "relaunched" her, to effectively communicate with the community about Karma. Why don't you live up to what you keep preaching about in your answers and finally start communicating.
This may seem like a whiny post to some of you. I am sorry if it comes off like that and I don't want to insult anyone. The fact is that all Karma fans are slowly losing faith in Riot's ability and willingness to work on Karma. The guy who originally worked on Karma didn't listen or communicate at all with the community. He outright butchered a champion that could have been relaunched into something amazing, but here we have a champion with no direction, an incomplete visual update, incomplete visuals and no proper running animations, a bland kit that takes elements from other champions and items, and much more.
http://lol.esportspedia.com/w/images/6/66/Karma_concept_3.jpg
With such great concept art, it is very disappointing to end up with what we have today.
http://lol.esportspedia.com/w/images/4/46/Karma_concept_2.jpg
This is what Karma was three years ago with her "relaunch". While she is still missing her fans and dress, the community whined enough and you gave in to what we received today. We still don't have fans and we still don't have a dress. Aren't the files for this located on your servers or something? Give us this. It's 10x better than what we have today.
http://lol.esportspedia.com/w/images/1/1d/Karma_Screens_1.jpg
This is the incomplete visuals and horrible visual update we received. Look at the relaunched visual update and then this one and tell me which is better . . . . I mean the other one looks more in-line with what we have in appearance today and it is more up to date. At this point since you refused to give us her fans and dress back, can you at least give us the visual update above? It looks 10x better.
Let's not talk about this travesty.
You didn't have the technology three years ago. I am going to assume you are going to keep with the trend and say the same thing for the past two years . . . . and say that you do not have the technology. If you did it for Ryze 7 times, why can you not do it with Karma?
Let's get down to the niddy griddy. Karma really only needs a new passive and her old one moved to R, a properly completed visual update, and maybe a new interaction with W or new W. Do people miss her fans, shield bomb, and dress? Yes they do. Since it has been so long since old Karma, players have become accustomed to new Karma and it would be almost impossible for you to go back. You would receive so much backlash for restoring old Karma . . . . at the expense of new Karma . . . and vice versa.
Riot, yo keep saying you want to communicate more with the community in posts, in Ask Riot, on Reddit, in an interview, and more. If you keep saying it for so many years now, why have you not actually done it? It's been three years and I have not seen you make a legit comment about Karma at all. All you have is an excuse. You said you would work on her during the Enchanter update . . . . well you worked on almost all of the Enchanters outside of the Enchanter Class update. You then said you would work on Karma during an Ionian Event. Well . . . . . all of the Ionian champs have received significant amount of work on them . . . . besides Irelia . . . who needs a VGU so she is basically excluded. You first said you didn't have the technology to work on Karma . . . . . but here we are three years later and you worked on Ryze 7 times . . . . and you have the technology now right? I mean you did it there 7 times.
The fact is you do not communicate enough about Karma and it is coming off as uncaring and lazy, which is what you said exactly in your Ask Riot answer. You have varying opinions within the Development team about Karma . . . . so what exactly is the problem and why has she not been worked on at ALL the past three years? The last three excuses are irrelevant now and proven false by all of your actions since then.
Again I am not trying to sit her and belittle you guys. I am making a thread, yet again, to restore what minuscule faith someone in the community has in you with Karma. You keep saying you want to communicate more about champions and about the game more. You keep saying it but you have yet to actually live up to what you keep saying you are failing at. You need to communicate more about Karma. You need to communicate more about Shen. You need to communicate more bout Morde. The community is losing faith in your ability to rectify mistakes, or maybe not so much of a mistake but the wrong direction, you made on three "relaunched and reworked" champions you did the past three years. Maybe it is about time you start acting upon what you keep preaching on about in questions and posts.
Thank you.
