Little call out to the community

Hi everyone, Falrein/Caithresh here, and today, I'd like to express my disappointment towards our community (you can see a TL;DR at the end because I want a bit off topic).

So. Let's review what happened... Shyvana's bio received changes. "Minor fixes". However it turned out that there was a massive problem of communication, and the bio we had until now was not the one we were supposed to have. So it made a big mess of things because the changes ended being major and not minor. Yes, Riot fcked up.

However, I do not think it justifies all the hate they've been receiving lately.

Don't get me wrong. We can't agree with all the changes they do. And we can't like everything they write. And it's completely okay to express your feelings about that...

... As long as you stay polite and nice. I've seen some people being needlessly rude in their comments. Riot does fuck up sometimes (we all remember the Darkin retcon for example), but they are human beings, and human makes mistake. Sure they are professionals and paid for that, but no one -and I say NO ONE- is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes.

Being rude and insulting Rioters won't make them listen to you. On the contrary. They are humans for Syndra's sake! If you keep being needlessly rude and mean, they are just more likely to feel bad. And dare I say it could be even worse. Negative feedback can be good. I'm fairly sure a polite, well constructed opinion will always make them more prone to listening to us, even if it's negative. Being a dick does not help.

Rioters are nice and they are always willing to answer questions (when they can, at least. Some things have to be kept hidden...). I had the chance to discuss with some of them. Scathelocke, Bioluminescence, Ant in Oz (just to name a few). They are lovely people, who are willing to lift our concerns and help us understand when something's lacking.

Over the last few weeks I've seen many comments saying that Rioters don't care about us, that they do not listen, and that they don't want to communicate with us. And it's obviously wrong. As I stated before they are always willing to discuss. But if we, as a community, keep insulting them? They might not do so anymore. They could honestly just write their stuff, go home and be done... But they actually take some of their time to discuss with us, which is honestly really cool. They are accessible. I do think that after all these discussion they remember and acknowledge some of us (or at least I hope so... Am I known as the crazy Syndra guy? :')), such as The Iceborn, Malicious Metal, and more.

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But oh well I'm going off topic. What I mean is, Rioters are people. They deserve to be treated with respect. We can't like everything they do, that's a fact, but there are ways to voice it. We are civilized people. And I believe that each one of us can act as such. We, as a community, can do better. When they fuck up, when they disappoint, let's not insult them, but let's encourage them to do better too!

On another note, I'll spread some love because as many know, it's my second best talent! I'd like to give a big thank you to Riot's Narrative Team(s) for their job. I probably said this before but you created a big(ish) community that loves and supports your work. We're patiently (not really) waiting for each lore release because we love it, and it unites us into a great community that is always craving for more. We can't wait for the bigger stuff like the incoming Novella, that will hopefully be a success because DUH WE WANT NOVELS!

But anyway, I did not make enough Syndra references on that post so I'll leave it at that... More, lore can be so much more!