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Sion was one of the first champions I started working on, and I am not upset that this is the first clip from players that I found.
Sion was one of the first champions I started working on, and I am not upset that this is the first clip from players that I found.
Question for riot, in many a post on the wild rift main page whenever thry do announcements it says "we beard your feedback" so where do you guys listen to feedback since there no forums reddit and Twitter?
I like that we "beard your feedback" =p. We get feedback in a lot of ways. Reddit and Twitter are both places we frequent for feedback from invested English speaking players (Twitter has more non English speaking players). We also have teams that help out by getting us feedback from non English speaking regions. And our Insights team will often create surveys, you might have seen these in the game, or use other methods of collecting feedback.
We also talk a bit with pro players and content creators, during Elemental Rift's development I set up a discord server for content creators and pro players that we used to chat through everyone's impressions. And frequently watch patch run down videos, and other player created content to get a feel for how everyone is feeling.
I hate to nag, but I rarely see you guys and want to ask, where you been? I assume you Riot folks have been around, but there have been a few posts where people are looking for your feedback and we don't see anything. I understand if you see it and don't respond, but to know you're there is something.
We are human and will miss posts, or it is possible that depending on the feedback the person who sees it doesn't have an answer. We don't all know everything about the game and might not the best person to answer something. Or just be busy and miss it or see it don't have time to respond.
In my case I have been off Systems and Balance for a while now and recently handed off Maps and Modes to another designer so I can focus more on champions. So it's a bit more difficult for me to talk about my work because it is often much further out. It makes it difficult to have the most up to date info on the live game, such as current balance. I also make a point to ignore raging and trolls, they don't want to have a chat so it doesn't seem productive for anyone.
I still try to respond to things when I see a topic I can speak to, or a good chat to be had.
I've wondered, do you guys play the game a lot in your free time? Or does it put you off because you're working with it all the time? Not sure how I would be if working with it all the time, may want to try out the new stuff or might be sick of it at the end of the day haha. Just curious.
We play the game a lot, but it does vary based on the person's role. We have plenty of people who play the game daily (on top of our daily team playtests), but like too much of anything, it can also be draining. In those cases we take breaks from the game, play other games, or what have you, just the other week I was feeling this way so I opt out of our daily playtests and did play during my off time.
For designers, like myself, it is obviously important to be familiar with the game you are working on, but we also want to be playing other games too. It is helpful for new ideas, to see how those games solved unique problems, see what people are enjoying, get an idea of the current standard etc. But it is also good for us outside of our roles as designers, remember we are all still gamerz and started out playing games long before we even thought about making them. And we do want to enjoy other experiences (both in games, and IRL) like anyone else.