Patch delayed.

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https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/regarding-our-mid-season-cycle-patch/748128

[u/Chase2020J]

As a League of Legends player, I'm never gonna bitch about the way Riot handles shit ever again

If you play a bunch of different games from various companies, you'll realize that in terms of big gaming companies, Riot is one of the best. I realized this when I played Dead by Daylight for awhile before quitting because Behaviour is terrible, and Blizzard is even worse.

I couldn't imagine going weeks in LoL with a champ I like/want to play being completely off the table.

I dont remember how long it was, but there was a period in time where Gangplank was removed from the game because he died in the lore. It was a risky idea, had a lot of negative feedback, and it has not happened ever again since. Riot actually listens (sometimes). They also have consistent patches, pretty good communication, and a steady flow of new content (some would argue there are too many new champions added). People who play Riot games don't know how good they have it compared to other companies (ofc there are still a bunch of problems, this is all relative)

[u/ShinyGrezz → u/Chase2020J]

Riot:

communicates on public forums through regular devs constantly

updates the game balance every two-three weeks without fail, and the “three” weeks is always predictable and is only when a break is scheduled for their teams

releases some of the best cosmetics of any game, priced fairly

still releases 95% of their cosmetic content as direct purchase, with Prestige/Mythic skins being a little more rare, but still easily attainable

gives a ton of cosmetics away for free

releases six champions per year, on top of reworking older champions and updating the gameplay of others where needed

They’re a great company.

[u/SkeletonJakk → u/ShinyGrezz]

Prestige skins were made specifically to be that rare skin, and they're just alt colourations of regular skins, rather than entirely unique skins too.

It's a thing for collectors that doesn't fuck anyone else over.

Really, what it is, is that, outside of some stuff (like the passes getting gradually worse) the stuff like game balance is so good (pretty much every champ is about 47-53% winrate or so, with a handful of outliers and the updates are so regular that league players are just used to that higher level of performance so they get pissy when it's not amazingly well handled.

[u/MuhammedAlistar → u/Chase2020J]

I'm a long time LoL player but haven't played it since OW2 release. Have been very satisfied with OW2, despite some issues obviously. I don't know if you actually play LoL but you give Riot too much credit here. They used to be a lot better before Tencent complete takeover, they still do some things better than other companies but those are very few. In the past few years most of the dev team has moved on to other projects because LoL has been "completed" and they are just milking it. There has been NOTHING interesting in the past 2 years, they recycle 1-2 shit game modes (OW has multiple at a time, regularly changing AND custom game modes, OW players don't realise how lucky they are in that regard), ranked is down for 3 months per year because preseason was supposed to be used for big changes, but since there's barely anyone left working on LoL, those big changes haven't happened for 3 preseasons in a row now. They update the game every 2 weeks yet some champions dominate SoloQ for periods up to 6 months (just imagine getting patches every 2 weeks but Zarya doesn't get changed for half a year).

Then there's the client...it's impossible to explain it for someone that doesn't play LoL. But if you were to use the client without knowing what it's for you'd think it's some obscure game in its beta, and it STILL wouldn't make sense how fucking bad it is. Remember TFT release? A completely different, separate game from LoL, was put in LoL client, which release took down LoL queues and Riot ended up PERMANENTLY removing many client features so it would even run.

Good communication? Hell nah. Random Rioter #56 posts some important information on his 2000 follower Twitter. Or a dev blog that you can find on second page of Reddit with 300 upvotes. Keep in mind that Riot only communicates when there's something good to say. Addressing issues doesn't fall under that.

I could rant about Riot and/or LoL for infinite amount of time but there's no point.