Riot listens to criticism as much as I think every big corporation does they had some REALLY bad PR with Tryndamere going off on Reginald and there was a really big community backlash . All this happened after they said that Solo Queue was not coming back after saying it was coming back 3 separate times , and then forcing DQ down our throats . They had a few other pretty bad PR incidents recently as well . I won ' t say they weren ' t working on things prior to this you can ' t release replays , client , and sandbox at around the same time without having done work in advance , but I think they had a fire under their ass that expedited everything being released so suddenly . People seem to think in binary , either Riot is the greatest thing ever the general mood after all that stuff was announced recently or Riot is the worst thing ever the general mood after all the PR drama . They ' ve definitely done great things , and they have a fantastic production team even though I do prefer the OGN production for regular LCS style , the international events from Riot are always fantastic , artist team , music team , among other things . I think they take too long to communicate some really important issues just like this one , notice how uncommunicative they ' ve been on the subject , and I think they don ' t prioritize some things well enough given how large their staff is . Overall , I don ' t think Riot is an evil overlord even though they are owned by a massive Chinese corporation , they just have some fundamental issues they need to fix . I think you are connecting some unrelated things though as Riot eSports and Riot ingame issues never work at the same speed historically . They ' ve regained some trust from me recently , but they ' ve got a lot to do . What would single handedly win me over Ditch Spring Split It means little anyway , and 11 month seasons are fucked up . Gives these players a break . Make it a season of international tournaments how fucking fun would it be to see all these teams battle it out ? . Summer Split worlds would be very hyped from not having an entire year regular season , AND it makes the overall competitive season really exciting because of all the international tournaments without burning players out horribly . Do these things and treat their talent Riot casters AND freelance casters fairly , and I would be a Riot fanboy once again . Balance team is headed in the right direction just a few things that need tuning imo support itemization , Rengar , Exhaust , Ghost , among other things .