Most feedback is useful to some extent, including complaining on reddit about the things you don’t like or want changed.
It lets Riot know something about what players want and how they feel.
Acting directly on any one source of feedback, however, is a terrible idea.
As a community-facing dev you should read reddit.
And then for every highly upvoted suggestion, or common complaint, you should consider:
How it compares to other sources of feedback. (Whose existence a lot of vocal redditors seem to have a hard time grasping.)
If it’s a seemingly good idea: what the cons are, and vice versa.
In fact, all the unexpected ways you can think of that it may impact other things.
How it matches your current design goals and vision for the game.
If it makes business sense.
Etc.
As a redditor it makes sense to make your voice heard.
But it also makes sense to not expect Riot to act on anything you want. Even if a couple thousand other redditors agree with you.
And Riot ultimately not doing what you wanted doesnt mean they ignored you.
In a world where feedback towards devs was less hostile it would make sense to explain their decisions a lot more, but that’s not the world we live in.
Riot do a lot of dumb things. “Not listening” to reddit isn’t one of them.
ah yes
feedback “NB events beign to bs is not fun”, “NB Soraka audio bug”, “Yorick bugs”, “Why did you publish X when you did the same thing before and it was a failure?”,…
Yeah no, this is a good post bro.
Not white knighting at all.Reddit’s ideas on how to fix stuff a lot of times are brainstorm ideas which are never good on their own and either need to be polished, altered,…
If you’ve ever been in a development enviroment you’d know that even bad feedback like “give ashe a dash” can be useful.There is no bad feedback, only insuficient feedback or bad developer.
entitled foot stomping ensues
idk riot can pretend to take in feedback, and then just ignore it completely, u dont know whats going on there, theres been plenty of cases where they sat there and ignored the community, and its been for the worse, for instance old chemtech drake,
rioters are like we want good constructive feedback, players give that feedback nothing happens, maybe they took it in maybe they didnt however nothings worse than a smug rioter thinking they know whats best and inserts their foot into their mouth
Agree 100%. But ignoring feedback is ignoring feedback.
What does this have to do with anything tho? Riot fucked up their game beyond the point of no return and there is no feedback/change that will save it