Seeing how the champ select unfolds with theorycrafting/discussion between people live makes the champ select feel so much more exciting on how it gets to the end result. Just seeing how it plays out is both visually confusing for me and makes the whole process seem way more confusing and easier to flame bad comps since there’s no context given behind seeing it unfold in real time
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it!
Draft is an integral part of the game. Dont skip it
We agree and never want to skip past that information. When we got into the game, we displayed the pick order of the draft. It sounds like that still felt like skipping it, though?
Not trying to be defensive, just want to genuinely understand what aspect of the live draft feels like it's being skipped, if you don't mind sharing.
Don’t think they were doing it to save time or intentional, probably just a f**k up on production side because FLY are playing remote.
It was intentional. The idea behind the experiment is that champ select can often times be pretty stale and repetitive, and we wanted to explore opportunities to skip the ~7min of live champ select and cover the story of the draft in the first few minutes of the game when no action is happening.
Appreciate any feedback from you all about whether you like it or not, and why. Thanks!
Hey there, if you have feedback around skipping champ select, would love to gather it in replies to this comment. Especially appreciate what you like about it and/or what you don't like about it and why.
I want to make sure we're capturing what aspect of the idea you all think is good/bad, as well as what aspect of the execution you all think is good/bad!
Wow, that’s a lot! Do you know who has the record for highest mastery at Riot?
Im not actually sure! I'd have to imagine I have a good chance of having the most though.
resources can also be used to describes human resources e.g. employees. money helps with that to an extent, but hiring people is a lengthy and difficult process. it could be upper management or finance deciding that the balance team can't be granted X employees or Y dollars to spend on hiring too, though.
phroxzon can't just magically conjure up employees/money regardless of riot's financial position.
Basically this. We get a lot of interest, but have not found people good enough to fill the roles, mainly the combination of game knowledge and design skill. Frankly, the fact that we are still performing as we are is superhuman levels of dedication from the devs.
I'm a big fan of this type of work. Over time, players find the cracks in champion designs or the game changes such that they don't apply as well. Giving a second pass (What would we do differently if we did it over?) is a great opportunity to breathe life back into stale characters.
Love me some mid-scopium! You guys rock!
Small point of feedback: while I liked seeing all the coffee transitions, felt a bit like too many? Idk if that's just me being nit picky cause I know you did it in between each question/point. It just felt like there were too many.
That's great feedback and we will 100% take it into consideration! I appreciate it! :D
You know I look at cracks in the sidewalk and I'm like: "This kind of looks like my favourite star dragon"
Happy to see that Rioters are just as obsessed with their Champions as we are.
By the way, I never knew just how much I needed a Runeterra themed Restaurant/Café/Theme park/Anything until I saw the Bilgewater Brew.
Rob is next level, but I think players would be surprised just how dedicated so many of us are to certain characters. I mean I have 2 million points on Yasuo alone, and nearing 1 million on Orianna. We love our champions, that's for sure!
/u/Cashmiir Do the next one at noms. I want someone to explain a new syndra ultimate using meatballs as props.
Smoothie Bar or bust
So you guys are basically an internal agency for the other riot teams to call on when they need your services right
Ya! Except we come up with a lot of our own ideas and approach the teams to create them alongside them. But occasionally they come to us with requests that we help out on.
I do wish that there was more transparency about them. Some don't even get announced until they go to PBE, like the Sivir one, and even the others rarely were announced much in advance. It would be hype to know which champs are being worked on before we see them, just like is done for VGUs, new champs, and ASUs. I was really hoping this QGT would tell us which mid scope(s) were coming next but we don't know if anything else is coming right now.
Announcing midscopes is dangerous. It's important for the designer to have the freedom to cancel/delay when appropriate since midscopes need to be clear improvements over the original, so being constrained by a release date when early in development is likely to result in a higher % of "failed" mid scopes. For Sivir for example, it was announced pretty much as soon as I had the bones of something good enough to be "locked in". That wasn't the same time as when I began the project.
Hey All! Wanted to follow up on the developing decision and where my head is at right now.
I've been both disappointed and delighted by the feedbacks! I really do appreciate people taking the time to discuss this as it shows how much the community cares. Many of you raise very valid points on both sides (on reddit, discord and other communication facets). However before going into decisions, I do see some sentiment here that I would like to clarify.
So since it’s riot wide is the rework dropping on wildrift the same time as pc?
The Editorial Content Team--the team that makes videos like this (and lol pls and Season Start)--is Riot-wide. The champion updates are not. Sorry for confusion!
I personally really liked this video. It felt really polished way to get across a small bite sized dev thought, not to mention the hype it gave for Asol CGU.
We really need more dev content like this. League is a massive game, it deserves to shine this way, the devs deserve to be better represented in the work they're doing.
Thanks! We're experimenting with some new video formats. Glad you like this one!
We definitely want the devs to speak more, and this is one way of doing that!
So... how about fixing the FAQ then, Riot? Are we supposed to go on Reddit and start looking around everywhere for an obscure comment by a Rioter on a thread?
Until this is reflected on the FAQ, the official info is that the missions expire.
There's certainly some miscommunication here, but in such a case it's always the FAQ that is supposed to be correct, not just a comment by a Rioter under a random thread, right?
(No offense to you, thanks for the info, I am more annoyed at how Riot is handling this)
We're on it! Will be fixed asap.
Apologies, it's a mistake. We'll correct the article asap. The actual missions are correct, and stay "live" until the event ends, as per usual.
I don't want to sound like a hater but I do think that Riot should be trying to keep information on their official websites accurate and we shouldn't be having to find a reddit comment from a random thread to confirm that something we're spending money on will work they way we expect and thst the statement on the pass explanation site is actually just misleading. It makes it kind of hard for us to tell what is and isn't true and real regarding events and other Riot info not released through official channels.
We do try, let me take responsibility for the miss here, then. Sorry!
Oh shit Riot wide eh? That's crazy to be fair. Knowing the communities for each game and what comes with that (the memes, language, game knowledge etc...) must be a cool challenge. Prior to you telling me that there is one team handling comms/content for Riots' Games holistically, one could've safely deduced that each game has their own "localized" team.
It's a fun challenge! I play all of Riot's games, though. And our team does as well for the most part.
So each game/product has their own mini community team, with a lead, community managers, social media folks, influencer managers, etc. You get the idea. But the team that actively creates this content is central because our work is super niche!
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