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Haven't heard of this issue. Will take a look into it.

This made me laugh out loud, I'm a sucker for dad jokes what can I say

Absolutely loved Spellbinder as a Kennen main. My first three items would all be actives lol

You are correct. People spending money on our game content are the ones enabling us to chase ambitious ideas like Arcane in the first place.

It really makes the difference.

While I agree with the oversimplification that getting caught is not a playstyle, neither is doing nothing.

Indeed a good ADC knows when to play forward and when to not get caught. But it's also a LOT easier for the peanut gallery (myself included) to notice someone playing too far up versus someone doing nothing to win the game.

We've all seen those zero kills and 20 minute games, mostly in pro. Is that really everyone playing perfectly or have 12 kills been passed up because players were too scared of "getting caught out"?

Easy 3-0, eh? 😏

what is dylan feeding these folks, they seem unstoppable

Teams were informed that if they continued to play from the arena there would likely still be pauses as we knew the issue was not resolved and could not be resolved until the arena was shut down and broadcast finished. Many teams/GMs feel performance is higher on stage in a formal setting and the players themselves felt more comfortable to keep playing from the arena so we supported that decision.

Glad to hear that! I've been trying to make different segments on analyst desk, and this was one of them

Thank you, massive props to our Video Operator who edited these cutouts and mixed it with the gameplay!

It's a hardware/infrastructure issue so we're ripping stuff up tonight trying to find the bad actor(s) and resolve as quickly as possible. We've worked with the teams tomorrow to keep them updated on the situation to see if we need to play remotely or not. 😔

As you mentioned we did give the teams the option of playing on stage through the issues, playing in practice rooms or playing from team facilities, but after Game 1 and 2 both teams unanimously wanted to continue and we checked in after the following matches. Both sides of the stage were affected by the issues. Given the nature of the situation, we wanted to support the players to play where they feel most comfortable for this high stakes match.

I think you're assuming here that value == player money spent. That is not how we think about it. Value == player value (i.e. things that players will actually enjoy having and will keep them playing the game). Obviously we do need our games to bring in money so we can get paid and pay the bills, but that is very rarely a factor in these kinds of features conversations. Example, on Wild Rift we might be trying to decide between creating an elemental rift specific scoreboard or an improvement to the ping system. None of that is going to directly make money for us. However we'll probably choose the elemental rift scoreboard because it will make the elemental rift dragons easier to understand and we think that elemental rift will be fun for our players (based on experience with League PC) and result in more engagement so we think the work is high value. Ultimately that's going to be good for our bottom line, but it's impossible to assign any kind of monetary benefit to an individual f...

RELEVANT STORY: I had proposed this when I was working on the champion select redesign on PC, but my initial design was a bit too complex (you could trade positions and champions) so we shelved it. I moved to WR not long after and seeded the idea with our designers working on champion select on WR. They did a great job of simplifying it and making sensible limits so it was shippable. It's always been our hope that we could experiment with some new features in WR that were riskier on League and inspire some changes if players enjoyed those features on WR.

You might ask... why you be dumb and not just do this on League PC first? The answer is not actually spaghetti code. It's really more about the opportunity you have when rebuilding the game from scratch for a new audience. When we are looking at features we often use a value/cost lens. You want to do stuff that has a high value to cost ratio. Consider this pick order features:

On PC you have a champion trade feature...

This is amazing, props to G2 and the EU team on this! <3

Yes

We fixed this bug as part of Challenges development when we realized: "Oh no Nocturne trivializes this"

I f*cking love y'all