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This hit me right in the feels :< Thanks fam
kept their word
This hit me right in the feels :< Thanks fam
Making ... good decisions? That sounds like the most important job in the whole company
Lol! To be fair, nothing would actually get shipped without the people who make the things. But thank you :) I love my work, and I take a lot of pride in being able to help our teams make the best stuff for as many players as we can.
For the record even though you prob have nothing to do with it the animation on yoru’s gun buddy is awesome. Love that you’re animating them now
Premium Content does the gun buddies, and I support that team :)
I'll be sure to let the animator know you appreciate it!
I love making good decisions! I gave you a follow on twitter, I'd totally be down to talk more
Awesome! Followed you back :)
Blau is a Researcher, not an Analyst
Fixed! Thanks for pointing that out. Thank you for the kind words, I can only hope that some of this is helpful to everyone out there looking to crack into the game dev field.
What do you do at Riot, would you maybe be interested in coming on for an episode? 👀 Always on the lookout for more guests!
I work in Strategic Advisory on VALORANT. My job is to help people make good decisions, to define our criteria of success, and to measure the success of our products. I support several teams, including Premium Content (the team responsible for making our cosmetics), Social and Player Dynamics (the name kinda speaks for itself lol), and a few others.
If I sound like a good fit for your show, feel free to DM me with more details so we can chat more :)
awww we love you too fam <3
This is awesome! I'm sure the community is super appreciative of this. I know I would have watched the heck outta this stuff before joining Riot!
(Also just a heads up, Blau is a Researcher, not an Analyst. Don't let him fool you :P )
Honestly, I think that would be a good plan. Adding to previous skins, in my opinion, would interest a lot more players rather than an introduction of a new skin line. Maybe even adding melee variants to previous skins would be super awesome. In any case, y’all are doing a great job, keep it up :)
Thanks friend! :)
Hey fam!
This is something lots of players have brought up to us! And it's something we've discussed for sure. However, whenever we're working on reworking old skins, that means we're not focusing on creating new skins for players. So if we ever did rework Spline, we'd have to weigh that against the value-add of a new skin line.
Thanks for sharing :)
-Riot aeneia
Man I love riot games. Its so vivid that riot hires amazing humans first. Happy Holidays Lea!
Happy Holidays to you too, fam :) <3
It makes me SO HAPPY to see these types of things... all the time and effort and love that goes into them. (I was a build-from-scratch cosplayer for a long time, so I'm all too familiar with the 800+ hour projects lol).
It sounds cheesy, but this type of work and dedication makes me feel like we're making more than just games.
So thank you so much for sharing u/TheSuddenHero. This is wonderful, and it made my day. Happy Holidays :)
-Lea (Riot aeneia), Strategic Advisory, VALORANT
Damn, these riot devs are so wholesome. Give this dev free skins Rito
<3
The message you're conveying...this the the greatest christmas present of all :)
What about winning while down a player who has been away for X rounds? I specifically remember a game where a teammate left early in the game, and after getting stomped for a while, with some teamwork and communication, we somehow took it to OT and won the game, only to get one arrow up after all of that effort, which really made me feel like all of that effort was for naught. Feel like an uphill battle like that deserves some extra MMR.
That's something I for sure can bring to the Compet team. I agree, that feels pretty rough. I imagine, if anything, it wouldn't guarantee a massive MMR increase...but it would be heavily weighted in the formula we use to determine MMR increase. (Before you ask, no I don't know the formula lol). Thanks for the input!
Imagine having a job like that. Please tell me you only get payed $6 dollars an hour for that shit and have to work a real job on the side.
My "real job" is strategic advisory for VALORANT. Training the moderators is something I have volunteered to do because it helps level up how we all work at Riot. (FWIW, I hope you didn't mean to be quite as rude as that comment came across.)
(Some players already do this, but "I can save my friend's rank" is just another incentive to do it.)
Why not have everyone lose rank on the disconnecter's team then? They are going to lose it anyway after wasting 15min+ on an inevitable loss.
also the OP post had:
EDIT: "without punishment" = still lose rank but nothing else
So the idea here would be, "Once someone disconnects, the team can abandon the match and they won't get a queue restriction, but still lose rank"?
Hey there friend! I don't know if you saw this, but I actually just commented about this in another post!
I appreciate you being super thoughtful about this and helping to inform our player base why that's not as good of a solve as it sounds :P
Hey there friend!
Yup. It SUCKS when someone dips out of the game, leaving you in a 4v5. This problem is something that we've discussed a bunch, and this is one of the solutions we've considered.
Unfortunately, though, we've seen lots of different ways that players take advantage of this specific solution. For example: players make smurfs with the express purpose of being the account where it's "safe" to dodge. They pair up with their friends, and whoever is on the smurf gets the responsibility of AFKing whenever the game starts to look rough. (Some players already do this, but "I can save my friend's rank" is just another incentive to do it.)
You may be thinking, "Well that's such a fringe case. How often could that really happen?" More than you think.
Or, in the worst of cases: a team is losing, and one of the players is REALLY not okay with that. So they start to bully the weakest link (or the child, or the girl, or the person who instalocked their...
Read moreSuper cool to actually be talking to someone on reddit who has the capability to change it rather than just echo chamber our frustrations with other redditors! Also, thanks for making such an awesome game. I seriously love it.
Thanks so much friend! And yeah, that's why so many of us lurk on here :P. If this is where the conversation is happening, we should be here to listen.
I don't mean to sound cheesy here, but your feedback genuinely makes a difference in how we do things. We really appreciate it :)
-fistbump-
Much worse to have someone who’s mad or toxic in my opinion because it will bring down the whole team. Someone with no mic might cost a round every so often but it’s okay
Thanks for sharing :)