[2021] I feel like Riot is being less communicative than before

Don't get me wrong, VALORANT is still for me a great game, I love it and I love everyone that is working on it from the chara design to the marketing team.

But, since 3.0 I feel like there's been a lack of communication from riot, we have no news on: -Yoru rework -Omen buff -Jett nerf -Replay system -dm rework -Shorter matches

And, I want to believd that they are working on it actively but are just waiting for 4.0/Champions to release, and I totally get that.

But we haven't had a Ask Riot since August, social media posts from devs are way less frequent and communication thru content creators seems at a low state.

Riot first focus has always been to listen to the players, with LoL and VAL alike, but for us to feel listened we need Riot to respond to us.

They were doing such a great job during the first year, what's going on?

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Originally posted by brassheed

They have toned down a little bit of the community interaction, sure, but that was always expected. Just like the community was hyped during game release they were hyped to release it and all of them were checking reddit/twitter and talking about it but that just can't happen forever.

The fact that they still do it at all is a miracle. I can't even remember the last time I saw a dev post about any other game from a big company.

Honestly it's not that we're not excited, it's just that it's really hard to go into details regarding things like delays. We're super bummed about not being able to ship stuff like the Yoru changes as quickly as we'd like, but a lot of it is just internal logistical stuff that doesn't make much sense or is very satisfying to talk through outside of Riot.

We care and, at least from my experience, are still just as tuned in to how the community is feeling. Some subjects are just tough to weigh in on without unintentionally setting a ton of inaccurate expectations from the community. It's a tough spot to be in, engagement-wise.

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