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Yeah, disappointed but not surprised. Expect URF, OFA and Ultimate spellbook again along with the usual grindy recycled pass.
External link →Yeah, disappointed but not surprised. Expect URF, OFA and Ultimate spellbook again along with the usual grindy recycled pass.
External link →The game modes team recently moved from PIE back to the gameplay initiative. We were re thinking the teams goals and mission back when these were recorded so didn’t want to discuss anything at that moment. We have since done that and should have an update on modes sometime early this year.
PIE?
Anyway, not to rag on you but I hope the team (or whoever's in charge of comms) is aware of the massive loss of trust with regards to RGMs. Frequent broken promises, radio silence and total staleness. I know it's low on the priority queue, apparently in large part due to it being a money sink and not that popular with the broader playerbase, but alternate game modes have been left to rot for years, and as one of the players who really enjoyed them it sucks to see.
PIE is the personalization team, they make skins, among other things. The issues with game modes has not been a issue of them being a money sink or low priority. Towards the end of last year that team lost a lot of people, through either leaving Riot or moving to other teams. They lost basically their entire leadership team shortly before moving over to gameplay.
We staffed it up as quick as we could, through either hiring or transferring people from other teams as we believe game modes are still high value. That being said even when you add people to the team to cover the losses those people can't hit the ground running, they need to ramp up onto the team. That takes time. We basically had to cut everything except the ARAM changes the team was working on after taking the losses.
That being said the team is starting to ramp up and we are aware of the loss of trust with the team right now. We want to get a devblog out soon to let you all know what the team is up to.
Please let the events team know to consider making the pass less grindy. I'm not even sure if they're in charge of that sort of thing, but I'm already paying 1650 RP for the pass, I don't want to feel stressed about not completing it without playing every day.
Sorry I meant the game modes team, not the events team. I edited my comment to fix it
What are your thoughts on the rising sentiment that PC League has been put into Auto-Pilot Mode?
I mean I can understand why people would draw that conclusion, though I can assure you that we are not. Me saying it isn't going to convince anyone of that though. Like many companies we lost a lot of talent during Covid, where many people took the WFH situation as a opportunity to look for different paths in life. It was rough all around the industry and Riot was no different. It wasn't because Riot intentionally cut budget or scope for LoL. To put it more eloquently, sh*t happens.
Also we have been investing into so bigger things that won't ship for quite some time. But words won't change how people feel, and certainly this random reddit response won't either. The only thing that will change peoples opinion is when we ship content.