[2020] Isn't this like the definition of missleading marketing?

Bet. We do follow and read these threads to understand what y'all are thinking. In addition to social media, we also field recurring high-level surveys that touch on general player sentiment and feels on everything from pricing to balance to around game systems. When we see things that we want to learn more about, we send out even more targeted surveys surrounding a particular topic or even host player labs to get real discussion going (labs have been harder with quarantine but we're getting better at remote ones).

Radianite Points is one of those topics where we’re digging into more on- I don’t want to give more info beyond here because it seems clear that on Reddit there’s a reinforced opinion, but we aren’t blind to the conversation. It’s just not constructive to jump in without any concrete promises that could get spun out.

As a quick reminder - game devs are specialized. There are only a handful (like literally 1-3) people who work on Valorant monetization, so the rest of the team just doesn’t have much to add on topics like this because we weren’t involved in the process or can’t speak to the skill set required to do so.

Hey. I’m one of those people - I work on gameplay content like agents and maps as well as game balance. I’m here, but I didn’t work on this stuff so I’m not really qualified to talk about it. I’m sure lots of other Rioters on the team see comments like this and feel the same way.

I hope the response from /u/RiotSWAGGERNAU7 gives you some solace at least.