Ken_Adams_NSA

We were trying to solve the feeling of a 40 minute loss giving you an unsatisfying amount of progress - the previous system rewarded quick stomps and punished longer matches, which is something we thought was not respectful of your time. The overall tuning should be nearly identical to the previous setup, and so far, the data suggest that the vast majority of players are progressing at about the same pace or just slightly over / under.

A quick note about lack of overspill - this existed in the old system, and also exists here. It's a sh*tty limitation of our mission system, and it's something we are going to address in the future. I can't give you an ETA because it's the final week of the year for Riot, but this is something we absolutely want to fix because it sucks.

It has been somewhat masked in the past by the fact that objectives weren't always consistent mission to mission (e.g. Mission 1 could be earn gold and Mission 2 could be vision score) so overspill di...

So, when we try to do this type of stuff, we see players getting really upset that they're forced to play a "role" in order to do the mission effectively. We don't want missions to warp player behavior or change the way you play to the point that you're not having fun any more, and the more granular and "interesting" we get with missions, the more they tend to feel this way.

This type of feedback is why we rely so heavily on "or" Missions. Do a thing that is a little out of the norm to complete a mission quickly, or just play the game and complete it more slowly. It's interesting, because it begs the question:

What are Missions actually for? Are they meant as just daily / weekly reward dumps that don't encourage you to do anything different? Should they be mini-challenges that break you out of your normal gameplay patterns to try something new and reward you for it? Can they be both without delivering an unsatisfying experience?

I think, in general, we lean...

Should be fixed this week.

And this is why LeBlanc is banned in all of my games. Great play!

I’ll reiterate that the goal of these changes is not to nerf the experience of earning tokens in Event Passes. All of our internal simulations on actual player data during events (across all modes) showed that this change would leave most players with either the exact same or slightly better earn rates for tokens.

For full transparency, TFT AFK farming will be hit substantially, which is intended. We don’t want people feeling like they have to play other modes in a suboptimal way to progress our passes. Data shows that this is a very small number of people, but we want to discourage the behavior entirely.

Without getting into too much detail, after Night / Dawn 2019 (and post Dark Star 2020 revert), the rate at which players earn tokens is substantially higher thanks to the change to weekly wins (instead of dailies) and an overall small increase in net token earn rate. Some players may still feel like that wasn’t enough, but all of the data points to players gettin...

Badass. Well done!

I got this reference, FWIW :)

That is some OG stuff! :)

More on this soon - full info drop in Season Start.

Thanks fam

Some throwbacks in here lol nice

Just makes it impossible to retire certain Loot items from our catalog for cleaner file management since people will always have them type of thing. :)

You are making my job a lot harder, but congrats! :)

This is incredible! Well done. :)

We talked about this for April Fool’s and this was the one we laughed a lot about.

Call it: “Wait, Come Back”

You can do that, for what it’s worth. Check your settings and go to UI. You’re looking for the Eternals Milestone Display option. Set to “None”.

This is a thing that does suck about the current setup - context is hard to recognize. We have a couple ideas on how to improve this in the future, e.g. normalizing the callout to something that is universally interesting like milestones.

This is unfortunately the reality of game development and the trade off of transparency. The options are basically give an update of how things are at that moment in time with the knowledge it could change, or say nothing. I prefer the former, but it can be frustrating either way.

MCO not part of this. You’ll hear more during Season Start. A lot more.

Why can’t NA fans do anything cool like thi- I MEAN, wow super dope!