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"For the first time, I feel like I can really say what I want to say."
"It's just better, this way."
"In the past, my status was often taken incorrectly, that isn't the case anymore."
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"It's just better, this way."
"In the past, my status was often taken incorrectly, that isn't the case anymore."
External link →"Well I guess this month's work is done"
- Riot Employee
“So this was actually my feature and I’d like to take a moment to explain the reasoning behind it!“
“For some players, it was confusing when their friends would put a status that said ‘Summoners Rift (3/5)’ or any other system generated status.”
“This frustrates those players when the game isn’t behaving appropriately based on what they’re seeing. Believe it or not, rito hates frustrated gamers. Crazy right?”
“We initially tried putting the bullhorn status icon from the hover card (the thing you get when you hover a player) in the status message itself, but that took up so much room there wasn’t enough space for your funny memes!”
“So we decided this was the best middle ground between obvious and non-disruptive. It also causes hilarious accidental sarcasm. Here’s a fun example: my bosses’ status is “diamond champion” right now and it cracks me up every time I see it.”
“Thanks for reading!”
“For some players, it was confusing when their friends would put a status that said ‘Summoners Rift (3/5)’ or any other system generated status.”
“This frustrates those players when the game isn’t behaving appropriately based on what they’re seeing. Believe it or not, rito hates frustrated gamers. Crazy right?”
"How dare people have some fun"
“We love fun! But we don’t love when people think open parties are broken.”
“Really important thing to know about design is that it’s all about making trades. I know this is a little bit worse in some ways. But I also know it’s more clear.”
“So I took the trade.”
You're not a real Riot employee...
This response makes too much sense
“Gottem.”
Why couldn't you just put a bullhorn or other signifier in front of the system status message, to keep the distinction but also keep our memes?
“We tried it! It took up way too much space honestly. It took away about 4-5 characters. Quotations only take 2.”
I appreciate the reasoning, and I understand it, but I disagree with it. Statuses have to be shorter now, and the quotes are just kinda annoying. I don't think the tradeoff for clarity in this case is worth it. People just need to git gud and stop getting trolled by fake statuses.
Or, the best solution, if that's the problem you're trying to solve - make it impossible to set statuses that imitate system messages. I know that has to go through localization and it's a big chore, but it's the right way to do it.
Edit for easier, lazier idea: just make them a different color. We have green, blue, and red text. Make something orange or yellow.
“There’s more here to unpack if you want to dig in.”
“What does that experience look like?”
“Do we do some sort of pattern matching so they can’t enter anything like the work ‘Summoner’? I think that might be lame. Do we deny you if you only put exact string matches? So now we need to account for (checks math) all 27 possible status messages including all the ones we might add in the future in every language? YIKES.”
“Your take is totally valid, and I actually thought pretty similarly initially, but there’s a ton of complexity chillin in this little feature.”
What if you only added the quotes when it was in the format of a Riot status message. So 99% of the time players wouldn't have to see them.
“Short answer: hard to determine when it’s actually a match to a riot status message.”
Was this really such an issue?
Are there really that many players who get frustrated over something like this?
“Not stupid! When a system in software is trying to tell you something, but can also deliver a personalized message from a user, we call that feature overloaded. It’s actually natural to be confused in certain cases when those things age close in content.”
The saddest part about this is the fact that you surely think you're hilarious and cool by trying to do shitty pr for a shitty change.
“My mom thinks I’m cool.”
“I’m not really doing PR. I’m the designer for this and I knew it would be a thing. Because everything is a thing when enough people see it. So I figured I’d try and talk through it with folks.”
“Sorry you’re not feeling it. Would you say your life is pretty significantly worse after this change?”
“Thanks Probama”
“Thanks TinyySushii”