Just admit that being “rewarded” Spotify playlists is a joke. Why do you hate people that play your game?
If I hate anyone, it's usually myself for not being a better support in Wild Rift. :) Globally, there were quite a few fans who liked the playlists, which where exclusive to the event last year. Having said that, we're not dropping any playlists for the MSI event this year.
None of what you just said justifies the state of the drop system over the last 12 months.
It's badly deployed and confusing, and as people will always fill in the blanks you leave with their imagination, they end up expecting more than actually arrives.
I'm not bothering with trying 'earn' any drops over MSI (I have enough Spotify playlists thx), and I can't imagine a lot of people will. Why bother?
Honestly it might be better to just cancel drops completely, give it until next year, and do it again properly.
Sorry to hear that. We know we made mistakes, and we fixed a ton of them as we've moved forward. We decided to try and bring something fun to lolesports.com last year during the pandemic and while also working with teams to get our other new games into everyone's hands. A big chunk of that was learning from you all on what was a hit or a miss on our part, like some of the rewards, so we did away with quite a few things and tested out some of the new things with our regional leagues (LEC & LLA come to mind with what they did over split one).
If you would rather not watch on lolesports.com, you don't have to. It's optional, but I love having you watch anywhere you love, because at the end of the day I'm a fan of professional League of Legends and just want to know i'm catching the cool stuff with fellow fans, be they on our site or whatever. Every split and event we work to make it better, or different, or solve an issue. The team and I love it, and we haven't stopped trying...
Read moreThis is top-tier. Gonna go buff him rn.
I see that we have a "chance to score one of these Drops-exclusive Icons" which means it's not guaranteed to collect them all. From that point, a Karma one-trick might watch all the games without receiving the emote and icon tied to her (which is super cool in a collection as a main).
Has this been considered ?
Yep! We're really hoping to get those icons and emotes to as many people as possible, but the drops decide. :) We also hope everyone gets both the icon and emote of the "set", but again, the drops decide.
Don't worry, thanks for the reply and it's great to hear the issue is at least on your radar, even if it's still out of the foreseeable future. Good work! :)
Thanks for being a fan! We're just here to add a little more fun to the events. :)
Is the headphones MF icon going to be in the drop pool, since I wasn’t able to get it during the regular season and it was cool the Karma one is being brought back for MSI
Maybeeeeeeeee??!!?? ;D
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What jungler?
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Interesting! Why 2014? Also, I can look into maybe adding some...when we did the Worlds Anniversary capsules last year at Worlds, we included some of the vaulted and legacy icons from 10 years of pro LOL. We didn't really want to keep going there for drops, but if you all like those things we'll keep looking into it!
Thanks for this update, fingers crossed that it delivers!
One question: do you plan to ever award drops to people watching on youtube?
I like to watch the games on my TV, the youtube app is very fast and easy to use there, while the browser is honestly a PITA. I have my YT account linked to my Riot account, but tbh I don't even remember what the benefits are. It would be great if I could unlock drops from watching directly on youtube, too! (I always watch the youtube stream even from the lolesports site).
Thanks!
We're focused on lolesports.com at the moment because we can do quite a bit more there (with the art and all that). I hear you, though, as someone who personally prefers to have a good game of lol eating up the whole living room on a TV. :) You can use Chromecast to cast from your PC to a screen, which isn't the easiest, but it has worked for us in the past. We are looking at some things to help the couch potato in all of us, just couldn't make anything happen in time for MSI.
How do we only have Qiyana? Do you not consider Nidalee/Neeko as heroic champions from Ixtal, while Zyra and Rengar join Qiyana?
Sorry, I meant more specifically from the Ixtal faction, not champs that reside in the region, like all the ones you mentioned. I mean we want to make another champion from Qiyana's Civilization specifically at some point.
I am super excited for this, and it seems like good news that someone specific is working to have drop moments that make sense. I remember in a similar article before Worlds, similar things were mentioned, for example, a pentakill would mean a drop. In reality, everyone who watched got their pentakill drop a week or so later. I’m glad the system seems fixed, and am looking forward to msi and bagging these emotes!
Thanks! Yeah, the Pentakill one felt especially bad because we legit had a failure and it didn't go, and it didn't help that it was a SUPER RARE HYPE moment, which was EXACTLY why we made drops in the first place during a once-per-century pandemic. :( We were all super bummed out about it but happy to have been able to get it to everyone regardless.
Is Dr. Mundo basically finished? Seems like he just needs some final polishing.
yeah, we are just finishing up some of his skins. Base Mundo has been done for a bit now (He has a lot of skins though)
During each stage of MSI, we’ll be triggering Drops when special moments happen. We heard your feedback about the frequency of Drops, so we’re super excited to let you know that you have a chance to get way more Drops than before. Will we drop when there’s a tower dive that goes wrong in the top lane? What about when Baron Nashor is stolen? Every moment during the MSI broadcast can be worthy of a Drop, so keep watching and good luck!
I'll believe this when I see it.
Hi! We have to make and localize every drop so that everyone can see them in a number of countries and streams, so we usually make them up ahead of time and then trigger when they happen. Do we know? Nope, not at all! We use stats to decide which moments are likely to happen, then we pick a whole bunch more based on the performance of the teams as the games go on, and there you have it. We're not dropping any digital items this time (playlists, wallpapers, fankits) and instead worked up a little menu of other in-game stuff we're giving away to a percentage of fans watching every day.
Also, you mentioned the leagues! Each league who was running a drops program had a different plan. LEC, LCS, TCL, LCL, LLA, & EU Masters all ran drops in split 1, designed in-market by those teams for their fans based on their fans feedback. They then shot us that feedback and results to help make this MSI program feel inclusive of all the leagues battling it out. So, every time we do a drops t...
Read moreHey there! Long time no chat! I wanted to answer a couple notes I saw so far! I'm on the drops team, so here it goes!
Drop Tech - Yeah, we had some issues last time, and I would be insane if I didn't say we all take every error pretty seriously and work around the clock to fix it up. No excuses, just know the MSI drops team cares about this a ton and we tweak and fix everything we can as fast as our little fingers can carry us.
The Rewards - We've heard you all and are dropping some more valuable stuff on a more randomized basis. Log in and you'll likely have a chance at scoring Hextech chests, skins, champion shards, or mystery skin tokens. We're also dropping several MSI-exclusive icons and emotes, along with a couple of exclusive ones for watch missions (we do that thing too!) so you should walk away with a few ways to flash an emote during a game of LOL or TFT.
The Moments - We leveled up the team and brought on someone to h...
Are you also able to share who Squad5 and EndlessPillows are working on for their projects since I love their designs
Squad5 and Kindlejack are working on the champ planned for after the bot lane marksmen (The support for the year) EndlessPillows, CarninvalKnights and BravoRay are working on the new champ after that (for 2022)
This is my issue. If updating the client's CEF is so important, then one of the client team's main priorities should be to make updating it easier so that it becomes a regular occurence. With that said, I'm no code wizard so if I had to guess it's a lot harder than it sounds.
Our goal is to have a plan defined to do more frequent updates, we should not be this many versions behind, we just had to spend this past quarter upgrade our components so we can unblock the upgrade and get to the latest version of CEF.
yep happens to me, this is basically the only issue i currently have with the client and it's a consistent freeze. everything else runs fine for me. i use open mic but my friends hear me if i speak while it's frozen, I've often said "my client froze" after a game cause my Discord and postgame freeze together.
I have heard this from many players, we know discord also uses a CEF (or chromium), we are seeing if our upgrade to CEF 90 will help fix this issue.
"Things are looking pretty bleak for Senna and Lucian right now, but maybe some new Sentinels can revive their hope."
Is the fact you wrote "Sentinels" in the plural significant or an error?
Its not a typo
u/Reav3 how will the delay of the Mage effect the Mid lane Marksman's release, will it come out at the same time as planned or be pushed up to when the mage would have been released. Thanks
No other champs release dates have shifted as a result
Hi u/Reav3 , do you have any comment on possibly making another Ixtal champ? I was kinda hoping you'd announce one in this roadmap, it's been almost two years since Qiyana and Ixtal were introduced :(
It 100% something we want to do soon, internally we are really excited to develop that region more as well. We also want to make a more herioc/good champion from that region since so far we only have Qiyana who is more villainous
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