BarackProbama

Really sorry to hear about this friend. I'm sure this is a super difficult time.

For whatever its worth, I'm really glad you had fun with the game. Folks like you are why we do it.

Keep it real homie.

Another perspective that helps prioritize things is considering factors like severity and incidence rate.

This has low incidence rate: very very few builds ask for this combination of items This has low severity: it doesn’t crash the server, it doesn’t create infinite stats, it doesn’t stop abilities from working, etc

Disclaimer: I am not part of our QA team and do not represent their craft. I am an idiot designer who should not be commenting on a quality thread.

Can't believe Paul let you get away with this.

(Barack, Respond to the comment about your stupid joke.)

It scales into late game.

This is exactly what we’re doing. The penalty gets worse and lasts longer when you go afk/leave consecutive games. You have to work off your penalty with good behavior.

Ya

That's what everyone always says right?

I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and this post to somehow become a feature request. :sweatguy:

This is unreasonably good. Holy sh*t friend.

Ugh. I'll fix this now.

Ayyy lmao

If I had one thing to say about design in general it’s this: everything is about trades. You will never have a perfect solution that makes everyone happy. So make the best trades you can, be open to being surprised, and make sure you adhere to your goals.

Howdy, I designed the store. Here to give you some store lore.

Once upon a time: The tabs at the top of all items weren’t classes, they were attributes. Things like magical, physical, durability, etc. you could turn on tabs in combinations to get the profile you wanted. Diana for instance would have magical and durability turned on.

My thinking was that league champions don’t fit into neat little molds so players should have the ability to customize their view. Also note that at this point stat filters had not been implemented.

Well, as we continued to test I learned some things: 1. Stat filters did 90%+ of this job these were doing, were more precise, and more familiar to people. 2. Most folks hated futzing with the attribute filters. They wanted to click one thing as see the items they were looking for.

So I went back to the drawing board and reframed the goals of each system.

The top-level tabs should be easy to understand and get it ...

My dude, I’ve seen people work themselves crazy trying to do something cool for players that no one internally asked for, I’ve seen features that would have made stupid money canned because they wouldn’t run on lower spec machines, and I’ve literally never heard anyone talk about deception. (People were bummed when the boards had to be shut down.)

I’m a designer not a comms person. I don’t like....know how to massage a message or anything. You can either believe we act in good faith and f*ck up occasionally just like the rest of humanity, or you can believe there’s a back room where we plot to ruin your main and the client one knowingly awful decision at a time.

Yep, thanks for the clarification.

Few parts to this one:

1. Every single person I've worked with at Riot deeply cares about the player experience. We aren't trying to be lazy, slip things by folks, or otherwise cheat players. We love you folks, even when you write rude things to us on Reddit. <3
2. Both the shop and the new chat share a new rendering technology that was developed internally. Previously, both of them were built with an off the shelf tool we are now deprecating. So there are new opportunities like UI particles, easy editing by designers, and massive performance improvements but there are also downsides like bugs and missing features. The really good news here is that since we develop this we can improve it, rather than waiting for another company to release a patch.
3. The final point I'd make is about software quality. In preseason, both the software and the game state are what I'd call an "open beta". Things aren't perfect, but we're actively working on them and we think th...

Looking into it now.

It should be in this patch, yes.

This is coming in a later patch!