Tryndamere, co-founder, co-chairman and chief product officer of Riot Games, announced today on social media that he will be making a new round of layoffs at the company. For this news, players have paid a lot of attention. The first thing that comes to everyone's mind is, of course, whether this layoff will have an impact on the content of the game.
Tryndamere said in the announcement: "Riot will not slow down the development of LOL because of this, and Riot will still invest a lot of money in LOL. "It's kind of a reassuring pill for everyone. And, Tryndamere also added the reasons and details for the layoffs.
He explained that the layoffs were not about saving costs, but about making the whole team more professional. Tryndamere hopes that with the help of these professionals, the League of Legends game can go through the next 15 years.
League of Legends game versions change frequently, so designers tend to be the ones who get the most complaints. After the announcement of Riot's layoffs this time, it was natural for players to put forward their opinions. Some netizens said: "Open the anti-sky designer who can change the line after changing the competition for a year." ”
The line-changing version began to take off this year's spring season and quickly became popular across the major regions. The underlying logic of this style of play is to let the two sidelines switch positions at the beginning, and the purpose is to help the top laner heroes who are at a disadvantage to develop normally in the early stage. For example, Wayne vs. Quisanti's original counter alignment can make the latter develop well after changing lanes.
It has to be said that this approach is quite clever. However, for players, the viewing experience is not good. The collision that was originally quite fierce during the line change became tedious because of the line change. Either the two sides of the single turtle shrink under the tower, or the two sides of the field forced to cross the tower, the perception is not good at all. After the MSI mid-season, the designers made it clear that they wanted to put an end to the line change.
Through changes to the tower plating mechanic and perhaps gold, the lane change disappeared for a while. But in the summer playoffs and S games, this style of play has revived. Because the two sides don't care about how much plating and experience they can eat in front of them, they think that it is more important to ensure the early development of their own weak top orders.
Since the version will not be updated during the match, the lane change tactic may still occur in the knockout stage.
In addition to designers who don't follow the direction of the update, players also have a lot of opinions about designers who hold on to one piece of content and weaken and strengthen the same content. It's hard to say whether this way of updating has been thought out or not. In the past two years, the equipment and talents that have been frequently deleted and returned again are like this.
In response to Riot's layoffs, from the perspective of players, I also hope that the game team will become more and more professional to optimize the game experience. At this stage, the layoff plan is still in progress. It is reported that the laid-off employees will be compensated, including 6 months' salary, year-end bonus, job placement assistance and other compensation.
So what do you have to say about Riot's layoff plan this time?