Legends of Runeterra Dev Tracker

Originally posted by TheSkilledRoy

Hey Dan,

Sorry I'm a little confused at this, that team shift was meant to be towards PVP; but as far as I was aware, Alexz was a set lead on sets of Bilgewater and Bandle City. I thought it was just the PVE team that was leaving?

Originally posted by Envy_Dragon

Thank you for responding! I want to emphasize that it's still a really good game, and I hope I wasn't coming off as negative... like most people on this sub (I imagine), I talk about the negatives because I want the game to succeed, just like you guys do.

And thank you in particular as well for being so active on this subreddit. I know you probably get a lot of harsh comments because you're visible, but it makes so, so much of a difference to fans when it feels like the devs are hearing us. A lot of the time we don't see the thought process or the hard work that went into making the stuff we love, so even getting snippets like "we're looking at filling gaps in this area" makes such a big difference. Hearing what the team prioritizes, why this gets implemented over that, adds humanity to a system we generally only get insight into in the form of patch notes.

Originally posted by Person454

Is there somewhere we can see who's getting the new roles? Feels like we're only seeing people leave, not join.

Originally posted by gonomodevil

Man, another one... should we be worried?

Originally posted by Humbling123

You seem active on the subreddit today. How have you been?

Originally posted by thanatopsian

Great post- i'm going to steal your explanation of how to provide feedback :P

It's interesting that other developers have this issue too regardless of how different the user base is. (I write software for professionals). I also struggle with feed back that is "I need {X} feature." and not what their problem is.

Another aspect of the OP's main point (to tell us what you're experiencing) is that users often report different symptoms of an underlying issue. Lets suppose the main feedback in their example was "The distance between {A} and {B} is too long", with other minor feedback of "There's nothing to do in the new zone, please add more mobs." and "There needs to be a clearly-designated area for me to level, i don't know where to go". The OP's final solution solves all three of the top player issues (and notably doesn't employ any of their proposed solutions) because the underlying issue was a lack of user-direction (provided by a robust quest system).

Originally posted by ProDier01

Why the hearthstone pfp though

Originally posted by ThePedroJay

Hi Dan! Yeah especially on mobile it seems reddit could use a more obvious UI indicator. I'll make sure to add a more visual pointer for future seasons in the documentation.

I was just checking out some of your podcast listings, appreciate you stopping by! I imagine draft and LoR in the same sentence raised an eyebrow

Originally posted by morkypep50

Agreeing with other posters, I think the culmination of all the complaints recently come down to "games are ending too early". Game ending combos going off on turn 5/6 as opposed to 9/10. Compared to other games, I have experienced Aggro metas where games are ending way before mana cap. But Kaisa isn't an aggro face deck. It's midrange/combo. In other games, combo finishers go off at mana cap. In LOR, combo finishers go off at half mana cap, or slightly after.

Edit: I see a lot of people attack spellshield and I think it is misguided. Spellshield is only a problem when a 5 drop becomes unstoppable with it. Spellshield on lategame bombs makes them actually threatening, but when your 5 drop can win the game on her own, spellshield becomes OP. This again feeds into what I said before. Games shouldn't be ending so early. Midrange decks should be closing out at turn 10. A 5 cost champion should not be winning the game in 1 or 2 turns, whether they get spellshield or not.