Contacting Devs and Riot

Hadal Nox·1/27/2019, 9:47:45 AM·1 votes·996 views

Is there an easy way to contact and talk to the developers or riot people in general. I've been a long time player and wanted to reach out to the creators to see if there was a way to talk to them about creative ideas and the entire process of leagues events and champion creation. Is there an email that I can find/look for or is the board the best way to get in contact? Does anyone know or have thoughts?

2 Comments

keccak2561/27/2019, 10:42:44 AM1 votes

i cant speak for riot, as i dont work for them. but as a retired developer, i can say this. when you run something successful... you receive hundreds, thousands, or more "i have an idea" emails/suggestions a day. 99.999999% of them (no offense to people, its just the case) are really not worth even reading.

ex: [player] "dear dev hey how lets make item X that does this <insert something here>. "

[dev reading this thinking to them self] .....that.... exact... item... already... exists... in 100% the exact same way.....

--or--

[player] "dear dev, can we make this mechanic a thing?"

[dev reading this thinking to them self] ... thats.... mathematically.... impossible.... sigh... why does no one understand math....

so.... because of that we often build up these mental walls, where when we hear the words "i have an idea" our mind just kinda instantly shuts off.

now, im not saying this means your ideas are bad. they may indeed be the greatest things ever, and stuff that would totally improve the game like 10000000x. im just giving you a bit of my own experience as a dev, to let you know, that trying to reach dev's with ideas can be really really really hard. before i retired, my team had a group of mods that kinda read all communications (discords, boards, emails, etc) that acted as our filter. it took a long time to train them to know what kinda stuff to not bother bringing to us, and what stuff to. but even with that "filter" there would from time to time be stuff that got missed/never brought to us that maybe should have.

but good luck to you! and despite this, never let the difficulty get your creative spirit down! to me being creative is one of the most important things one can do in life (my opinion)!