BarackProbama

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This is related to the Quickplay work, so it will show up in patch notes when that is released.

Like memes aside, this is something I've seen happen in almost every codebase I have ever worked in. You make a rational change and it has side effects elsewhere. You can avoid it with some level of rad architecture, but people generally do not spend time on that. Small teams and small products can avoid. Larger teams hope to find it in a code review or quality pass.

This was a bug introduced due to some work we were doing in champion select. It should be fixed in the next patch.

I think folks are assuming that splits = the exact same ranked system as without splits x3.

This is a reasonable assumption to make, since the announcement didn’t get into any details beyond that. They only had so much film in the camera after all.

The reality is that we are adjusting both the cadence of your climb as well as how we reset. With 2 splits we: - increased LP gains - reduced placement matches - did a softer reset between than we normally would do between seasons

And we plan to use a similar set of tactics for 3.

We do not have any current plans to change the Crests/Borders.

If we did, it would be part of a larger player identity overhaul.

There is no plan to do more than 3 ranked splits per year. That does not mean it won't happen, but it does mean that no one has discussed it anywhere near me.

2 was more a test for 3 than it is an indication of a growth pattern.

My build

We routinely look at most systems in League of Legends and evaluate if they are doing the best possible job they could be.

This is really cool! I actually think Celestial Aegis is my favorite in isolation.

Interested in where you think the boundaries for this content are. What would make a rune definitively elevation or not? What underserved need(s) does it fill within the context of supporting or enhancing existing champion kits? How would you define success - if this set of runes popped off and made league way better, how would you know?

I’m starting to think that quote was a bad idea. 🥲

Budgets take a fairly long time to manifest into tangible products. I work on a time horizon that stretches to 2026.

I think I also disagree with your premise. The feature has a low defect rate and meets the needs of many players. If it did not, I would not expect the usage that we are seeing. That it does not meet a pretty large and well established case (saving shards for mastery) is a bummer, but it’s not the only or the largest case.

If you compressed all the time it took and said no one had any other responsibilities I think it would have looked like: - UX Design: 1 week - Art/Sound: 1 week - Engineering: 4 weeks (less sure of this, but ballpark) - Quality: 1 week

But no one is only working on something like this. We have multiple longer-term projects, shorter term things in other areas, and work that just isn’t visible in the same way all happening at the same time. A for instance: the engineering team responsible for this was also working on backend store improvements, longer-term feature bets, the essence emporium, and various other things I probably am not fully aware of.

I am not and never would suggest that there aren’t improvements we could make do both our development platforms as well as our internal processes. (We are always working on both) I will defend the talent and care of the humans making things at Riot to the ends of the earth. They f*cking rule.

I am not commenting on whether or not they violate our terms of service, but reflecting on the amount of load they add to our services as a game. I do not actually know what their relationship to the TOS are.

I honestly do not know. Conceptually it is simple. I can ask :)

Candidly, we ran a bunch of tests around titles in game and no one liked them in playtests. They got in the way pretty badly. We tried having them fade in combat, but them coming in and out became distracting unto itself. Ended up being a bit of a cursed problem.

We did once explore being able to equip challenge tokens as emotes which was pretty sweet, but on reflection they didn't have as much emotional significance as we wanted.

Hey friends, BarackProbama here. Wanted to clarify a few things about our multi-disenchant feature.

Why does it only let me select 1 category and 50 shards at a time?
Main reason is service load concerns. The loot service was built with the expectation of folks disenchanting things one at a time sporadically. We designed this feature to handle many many players hitting the service all at once. The scripts/tools you mind find out in the wild are fine when one person uses them, but if everyone used them on large inventories there would be chaos. Snakes and Mongooses settling down together and such.

Long term, with further improvements to the service and fewer large inventories, our intent is 100% to allow larger amounts of items to be 1-click disenchanted with less hassle.

Why doesn't it respect the shards I am saving for Champion Mastery?

Why can't I unselect shards?

These essentially have the same answer...

The way loss mitigation works is it calculates your chances of winning the game at the point the player goes AFK and refunds you based upon how high that chance is.

At 3:45, you are probably still 50/50, which means it would do a bit above the minimum amount of mitigation.

That is obviously a bummer. I'll take a look at what we have the floor set to on Monday, since we've increased variance (amount of LP gained/lost each game) it probably needs to be revisited because the values were set before then.

I will pay special attention to it.

I’ll look into this on Monday.

Arena development started in 2023.