BarackProbama

BarackProbama



12 Jun

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Originally posted by Armagadon643

i hope that EVERY old icon is updated, because looking at the item roster there is a different artistic look between them i'd like to see these have cool designs for them old items (pickaxe, long sword, Nashor's tooth) and specially Void Staff i want it to have that "Void" look.

Can confirm that people are doin stuff with photoshop as we type.

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Originally posted by FJvonHabsburg

I wonder what's up with 25 AP Rabadon

Lmao I literally typo so much its a meme with my friends. It's finally made its way into the public eye.


01 Apr


21 Feb

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Originally posted by RiotIAmWalrus

Hey there! I'm the designer in charge of Ranked, so I can speak pretty directly to this. To start, I totally get the pain you're feeling here - seeing players with really different ranks in your game feels like garbage, even if we tell you that the MMR makes it fair. We want to solve this problem by getting MMR and Rank closer together, something we'll be talking about more over this season. But there are some really good reasons we don't just show MMR:

First, check out this post from a couple years ago where Riot Gortok goes over this question: https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2018/02/dev-matchmaking-real-talk/ . I think that answer holds up pretty well, but I'll also give some of my own reasons. Strap in, this is gonna get long:

  1. MMR is meant to measure your progress, not display it. For MMR to measure skill correctly, it has to do a lot of...

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It really wasn't that long. But it was pretty smart.


25 Nov

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Originally posted by Pentragos

Ah yes I understand.

what

Carry the 3 my friend


19 Nov

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Feed me more Aphelios memes my children. Probama hungers.


05 Nov


25 Oct

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This is god damned amazing.


17 Oct

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In this frame, I also appear. Probama cinematic confirmed!


16 Oct

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I live to destroy your productivity.


28 Sep

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Originally posted by TinyySushii

“Thanks Probama”

“Thanks TinyySushii”

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Originally posted by thrwycr

The saddest part about this is the fact that you surely think you're hilarious and cool by trying to do shitty pr for a shitty change.

“My mom thinks I’m cool.”

“I’m not really doing PR. I’m the designer for this and I knew it would be a thing. Because everything is a thing when enough people see it. So I figured I’d try and talk through it with folks.”

“Sorry you’re not feeling it. Would you say your life is pretty significantly worse after this change?”

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Originally posted by WizardXZDYoutube

Was this really such an issue?

Are there really that many players who get frustrated over something like this?

“Not stupid! When a system in software is trying to tell you something, but can also deliver a personalized message from a user, we call that feature overloaded. It’s actually natural to be confused in certain cases when those things age close in content.”

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Originally posted by FormalEnvironment

What if you only added the quotes when it was in the format of a Riot status message. So 99% of the time players wouldn't have to see them.

“Short answer: hard to determine when it’s actually a match to a riot status message.”

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Originally posted by Zephaerus

I appreciate the reasoning, and I understand it, but I disagree with it. Statuses have to be shorter now, and the quotes are just kinda annoying. I don't think the tradeoff for clarity in this case is worth it. People just need to git gud and stop getting trolled by fake statuses.

Or, the best solution, if that's the problem you're trying to solve - make it impossible to set statuses that imitate system messages. I know that has to go through localization and it's a big chore, but it's the right way to do it.

Edit for easier, lazier idea: just make them a different color. We have green, blue, and red text. Make something orange or yellow.

“There’s more here to unpack if you want to dig in.”

“What does that experience look like?”

“Do we do some sort of pattern matching so they can’t enter anything like the work ‘Summoner’? I think that might be lame. Do we deny you if you only put exact string matches? So now we need to account for (checks math) all 27 possible status messages including all the ones we might add in the future in every language? YIKES.”

“Your take is totally valid, and I actually thought pretty similarly initially, but there’s a ton of complexity chillin in this little feature.”

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Originally posted by instalockquinn

Why couldn't you just put a bullhorn or other signifier in front of the system status message, to keep the distinction but also keep our memes?

“We tried it! It took up way too much space honestly. It took away about 4-5 characters. Quotations only take 2.”

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Originally posted by natethegreat838

You're not a real Riot employee...

This response makes too much sense

“Gottem.”

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Originally posted by VMan7070

“For some players, it was confusing when their friends would put a status that said ‘Summoners Rift (3/5)’ or any other system generated status.”

“This frustrates those players when the game isn’t behaving appropriately based on what they’re seeing. Believe it or not, rito hates frustrated gamers. Crazy right?”

"How dare people have some fun"

“We love fun! But we don’t love when people think open parties are broken.”

“Really important thing to know about design is that it’s all about making trades. I know this is a little bit worse in some ways. But I also know it’s more clear.”

“So I took the trade.”

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Originally posted by Floppuh

"Well I guess this month's work is done"

  • Riot Employee

“So this was actually my feature and I’d like to take a moment to explain the reasoning behind it!“

“For some players, it was confusing when their friends would put a status that said ‘Summoners Rift (3/5)’ or any other system generated status.”

“This frustrates those players when the game isn’t behaving appropriately based on what they’re seeing. Believe it or not, rito hates frustrated gamers. Crazy right?”

“We initially tried putting the bullhorn status icon from the hover card (the thing you get when you hover a player) in the status message itself, but that took up so much room there wasn’t enough space for your funny memes!”

“So we decided this was the best middle ground between obvious and non-disruptive. It also causes hilarious accidental sarcasm. Here’s a fun example: my bosses’ status is “diamond champion” right now and it cracks me up every time I see it.”

“Thanks for reading!”


06 Aug