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Odyssey and Star Guardian were fun as hell. And you could tell that a lot of love went into each event. The augment tree with Odyssey? Someone who KNOWS how to have fun definitely came up with that idea.
They made the game feel more alive and such. New gamemodes are definitely a tool to make the game feel fresh. Now, I understand that TFT is a "new gamemode" we got this year, but it isn't event specific and you can tell it's a money project and not a passion project, which hurts and feels bad.
Riot knows they can just release a battle pass every event instead of a new gamemode now at the moment. The passes are generating a lot of money and take a small fraction of the work unique gamemodes do. They're simply taking advantage of it. And spending that extra time making "Eternals" for us. That is not a good trade-off at f*cking all. They're just trying to milk it all more and more and some people don't give a sh*t.
And I'm hoping I'm not the only one, but I feel like Odyssey felt more "polished" and took more work than TFT. TFT seems rushed, uninspired, and is very broken. The quality of everything this season just seems off.
I played the hell out of the PvE gamemodes here. And I didn't get anywhere near the amount of glitches I've had in TFT.
Anyways, I do think battles passes/event passes are fine. But they are so low-effort. Having to buy $20 worth of RP for just a chance to grind some cosmetics everytime. They could easily justify adding in a temporary gamemode charging that price. Hell, many FULL games are only charging $20 or go on sale often for $20. And Riot's able to charge us that every month or so.
When Riot says that they "can't justify making these temporary modes anymore", It should really be impacting the community more than it is. The only thing they can't justify is spending some money from the disgustingly large war-chest that they have. They've been making more money than ever and are cutting back fun features more than ever. And being more greedy than ever.
And to people who say, "it's a feel game lmao, you can't complain"...Maybe you play for free bud, but ya wouldn't be able play it for free if other people didn't spend money on it for you, so you're welcome baby boy. The vast majority spend cash to play this game with all the features, so we all have a right to call out some bullsh*t.
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