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Hey there friend! We have a SUPER comprehensive plan for how we're going to determine the success of Night.Market, and we'll want to wait until we get all that information in before we start making calls for 2021.

Just like any other team on VALORANT, we're always looking to improve, and we have lots of ideas for how we can improve Night.Market if and when we run it again. Chances are it won't be exactly the same, even if those changes aren't player-facing :)

Hey there friend! We're so glad you love the BP skins, and thank you so much! :)
For our next battle pass, we will have a skin line that has Variant upgrades through Radianite :)

Hey there friend -
We'd absolutely consider it! There are a lot of benefits to it, including helping out the players who missed it the first time around :)
We'd have to make special considerations for the exclusive content that comes with the skin lines (like the buddies and sprays) , but it's for sure been a point of discussion.
Thanks :)

Like I said, I truly don't know what the plans for servers are. If we promised that server, I believe the team will deliver it. It's just a matter of when we're physically able to do it. (Getting the servers set up is different for every region.)

I don't work on the team that creates the servers, but I think it's important to respond to your post. You have every reason to be frustrated.

Los Angeles (our HQ) is still under mandatory lock down, and has been since we shipped our game back in June. Nearly all of our employees are working from home. Many countries are refusing to accept travelers from the United States due to our mishandling of the COVID-19 situation. We're trying our best, but we're pretty much trying to do gymnastics with our hands tied behind our backs. Establishing servers isn't just a matter of shipping and installing them.

I truly don't know what the plans for Africa are. However, I hope you'll save your assumptions for when we're physically capable of establishing servers in other countries. Please don't let 2.5 months of live service be your evidence that we don't care. We do, I promise.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you, friend <3 In the meantime, I completely understand...

if by "funny" you mean a highly curated, elite collection of figure painting by only the most esteemed of artistic masters, perhaps...
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The "just one more" mentality is real lol

Thanks for the recommendation :)

<3 That's what we're here for, fam. I'm so glad we're delivering for you. Keep enjoying the game!

Thanks so much :) I'm a Strategic Advisor on VALORANT. My job is to help stakeholders make good decisions about products, features, and initiatives.

<3 sob Seriously. This thread is the greatest thing ever.

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Oh we were absolutely allowed! We just ran into the issue that, for lots of us, whatever work we didn't do just got pushed forward or handed off to someone else. (Not everyone has the luxury of being able to unplug without some kind of work buildup.) No one wants to come back after two weeks and have to mega crunch for another 2 weeks...and we're all looking out for each other, sono one wanted to say "Hey, I'mma dip out for 2 weeks, so someone else is going to have to do twice the work while I'm gone." Lots of Rioters also actually struggle with using their PTO since they're so invested in the work they're doing, and this is especially true when many Rioters are launching games they've been working on for years. (I know several people whose managers have forced them to take time off lol). Forcing a week off it's Riot's way of making sure we're all taking the time we need.

Haha! Yes! That's me! :)

but COVID :( Personally, here is my schedule:

Day 1: Super excited about doing nothing for a whole week. Watch a few movies on my Netflix queue.

Day 2: Decide to finally catch up on all the games in my steam library. Proceed to play Civ for 11 hours.

Day 3: Decide that this is a great time to work on my hobbies. Get frustrated. Decide that gaming is also a hobby and get stuck deciding between VAL's battle pass and wooing Thresh daddy.

Day 4: Wonder wtf I'm supposed to do for 4 more days because I don't handle boredom well.

Day 5: Start working but don't tell anyone.

I was going through and thanking people who were saying how much we deserve it, but there were too many of you...
Thank you all so much. You're gratitude and kindness and empathy totally made my morning.

Thank you so much fam :)

Thank you fam :)

The problem with this is that we're an extremely interconnected company. Most of us can't do our jobs without connecting with people all around the company. It's not just limited to our game, either. I work with people from each of our games, from central, from our regional offices... I can't tell you how many times I've taken time off and people are still pinging me with urgent needs. Now imagine that across 3000 some-odd employees.
We've tried to do staggered breaks in the past (for example, at the team level), and it simply doesn't work. By forcing a company-wide break, it's ensuring that people aren't going to be receiving emails, slack messages, etc during their time off.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate that <3