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We check it every day, I say all the time to give feedback and to give your criticism.

I'm not going to interject if I don't have a meaningful update on anything, and I'm also not going to push back or argue on any feedback given.

First ever Summoner's photo I see here on Forums.

Take care with your data and never send images with photos

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This one I will need to buy

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wow you are so annoying it hurts

Lets watch Kabam next Livestream

Thanks Kabam 🥳

It clearly came across wrong. Apologies. It looked an awful lot like some of what Mike used to do, and looks a lot more engaging on paper than manning a message board. No offense to those who man message boards.

There they are.

Back For more gargling? You are INSATIABLE tiger.

Because all too often "engage with the community" is really just a request to be a punching bag for criticism, or alternatively to come here and admit Kabam is wrong like they are supposed to.

On two separate occasions, once long ago and once a lot more recently, unnamed people at Kabam have asked me point blank "why do I do it?" Someone will ask a question, and I use that phrase very loosely, and I will decide to reply and I'll say something like "well, based on my understanding, this is the most likely reason why this is like that" and I will be called stupid, delusional, ridiculous, and completely illogical. Except, that is the actual reasoning that occurred, which I know because I was more or less directly told this in less public discussions. You can imagine how encouraging that is.

"The game is falling apart and the team is non-existent for the first time to this degree" are two different falsehoods. The game is not falling apart any more than it has been falling apart since 2017. And people have been complaining about lack of engagement also more or less continuously for at least as long. The past has always been referenced with rose colored glasses: its always been described as great to try to make the point that it is so much worse now, except at no point in the past were people not saying that exact same thing.

At the end of the day, each developer and community person is different, and each approaches community engagement differently, and on their own terms. But if there's a common denominator across all of them, it is that a) they don't want to enter discussions when they don't have something specific to say, and say in a way that won't get them backed into a corner, and b) no one wants to be told the only problem that exists is they can't admit they are wrong, and if only they did so everything would be so much better. If they don't understand this originally, they figure it out eventually. It took Jax only a few months.

The truth is I do what I do because a) I'm willing to take shots from the many to reach the few, and b) I've been on the internet since 1985 so my soul is already a blackened stone that is impervious to insult and injury. But the toll most internet game forums take on normal humans is generally unsustainable. The question is not why I do it. The real question is why anyone else does.