It’s ok to be wrong. There is a time a place to admit it and fix it. Even Reddit can be right twice a day.
It’s ok to have some confidence or even ego. Reddit(mostly invested/serious players from NA/EU) is indeed not whole player base. But it’s not ok to be overly condescending.
It’s ok to call out bad takes and poke fun with Karthus poetry. But it’s not ok to resort to virulence and malice.
In the end. I hope Phreak and Riot in general don’t stop communicating because doing it puts them under flame when they’re making changes people don’t like. I hope they keep having the thick skin that most other game devs don’t have. Transparency the willingness to learn and correct wrong changes is the dream. A silent Riot that just does whatever without telling the playerbase why would not be flamed as much, but it would also be much worse off for the game and its community.
Here is the thing… I don’t think they’re being that transparent. And I’m not talking about the Phreak thing, because while I think it was nonsense, I think we had bigger problems before that already, like the Mythic Scams. Like, I’ll say this: they were transparent enough to say that they did it for a small part of the playerbase and for the money, but when they announced the Ekko Scam they went like “We’re grateful for all of your support, and we’re excited to keep exploring this space and making improvements” and I was like, bitch, where? What support? There was no support, the scam was exposed as a scam and widely hated by the community and they’re acting like nothing wrong happened.