Quote Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI View Post
The irony of that wasn't lost on me, but this would be the part where someone chimes in and notes how housing is a "bigger" problem and such.

It is, but it isn't. And to see that there'd still been no response from even a rep after all this time is all the answer I need. I made it clear that a more proactive approach to communicating with the community and making note of their input on matters before making sweeping or surprise changes is the better approach. Yet we've come to this point.

They want to continue attempting to appeal to a new, fairweather PvP community, and not the ones who stuck with it all along, for all the good and bad of it, and at the expense of completely alienating and losing that dedicated community. Fine. Let's see how that goes.
It's all business and they put their resources and time into what makes money. Housing is 100% more important to them than PvP. We can make all the philosophical arguments we want about how PvP deserves just as much time and design and input, especially about how it's a chicken and egg problem (Players won't pay for this game to PvP until PvP is in a good place!) but it's wasted effort.

I've been in a sinking ship before. Riot Games is dead to me because of The Crystal Scar (Dominion). I freakin loved that mode. I wanted ranked so badly. An employee made an infamous remark about how ranked was all ready to go and they wanted the mode to mature before they "flipped the switch".

While waiting for them to turn on Ranked Dominion months turned into years. Balance issues went unaddressed or were otherwise extremely slow to get fixed. Communication between the Dominion community and the DEVs were sparse, vague, and one-sided. Excellent suggestions were ignored. After waiting 2.5 or 3 years I gave up and quit League of Legends for good in the only way I could protest that neglect that I could - by not giving them any money. Every now and then I would check in and see what the current state of things were. You know what eventually happened? They effing gave up and discontinued the entire game mode.

While I don't think PvP is going to get nixed like that, I see the exact same patterns happening here. It really doesn't bode well for people who are PvP focused.