Write karthus ult instead of ping it? The whole point of pinging is a shortcut/quicker way to communicate. No one has time to type that mid fight. And most importantly why did they remove the ability to ping ult in the first place? To avoid harassment? Even though you’re aware people can still type it in the chat and it makes no difference??? Either you admit it makes a negative impact for players or you argue it doesn’t change anything. But if it doesn’t change anything WHY REMOVE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The recent communication changes are all poorly thought out. A change in leadership is needed because whoever is greenlighting these terrible ideas clearly doesn’t play the game at all. If the rest of the community agrees with this can we make a petition and sign it off to riot?
Alright I admit to my lack of research. It is not phreak’s decision to make the ping changes.
However to the other points: I did not mean for this to be a post that targets one specific person, it is in regards to the riot team and the community. I do thank you for bringing the fact that this post is targeting in light to me so I can change my wording. “The riot leadership needs to be rearranged” instead of “Phreak needs to get fired”. Again the criticism is addressed towards the leadership of riot who oversees these decisions and to the community.
And now to your point of looking for alternatives. Yeah there are alternatives to communicate but there are alternatives to harass as well. My point is that the change fixed nothing. That’s where my frustration is coming from. They banned keywords to stop hate speech. Now people just type n199** and rope yourself instead. They removed the bait ping and now people use the push minions ping instead. They remove the ability to ping ult cooldown? Well now people are gonna spam Karthus - Ult Ready in the chat instead. What did it cost players? Slight inconvenience not much honestly. But what does Riot achieve with these inconveniences to players? Nothing. If this actually fixes something I wouldn’t have a problem with it.
Riot thinks they’re doing good, I don’t. But my opinion doesn’t matter, the community’s does. That’s why I’m calling for a petition, to see if people truly think all these changes are useful or pointless. It will definitely bring light to what the community thinks one way or another.
Anyways not writing this to appeal or anything I realize I broke the rules. I just wanted to clear up some misunderstandings and maybe persuade you to change your viewpoint on how these changes, that does nothing except cause inconvenience, are fine and should keep happening. Let me know if this is useless crap or an interesting read.