People are by their very nature, diverse. With that comes a wide range of opinions. As your game gets bigger and has more players, you’re going to hear a wide array of opinions and hot takes from those players about how to improve your game. Once it gets big enough, you’ll hear almost anything.

In Lobby 2 yesterday, Frodan said “you almost always can find a large group of ppl who will agree with your take in TFT because the player base is that massive” and he is absolutely correct. As someone who takes the time to read through the various player opinions, it’s pretty wild some of the takes I read each day from players.

One of the wildest to me yesterday that I saw from two different people stated “If they’d just remove Scuttle Puddle and Crab Rave, that would solve everything and the game would be so much better”. Now mind you these are our most popular portals that are chosen 80% of the time they appear…but multiple people felt it’s ruining TFT.

And that’s just one example. The most common one that comes up from a small sector is “The game was better before augments, and they should be removed.” I see this take around once a week, and clearly some folks strongly have this opinion. Their feelings are valid and I can’t tell them they are wrong to feel that way.

All we can do is make the best choices for most of our player base. Every decision you make, someone out there will not like, but as long as you’re living up to the goal and vision of your game, and the majority of players are happy with the decision, then it’s the right one. Focus on those players and continue to ensure they’re having a good time. (And don’t worry, someone will point out that you’re “just appealing to the masses” as if this is a bad thing also lol.)

This is why it can be dangerous if you field feedback from the wrong place. Certain parts of the internet often lead to too much group think, generally skew negative by default, or are too narrow of a subset of players and don’t actually represent your player base at large. Major shout out to our insights team who help us gather data to ensure our decisions are informed by that wider player base and not our own biases and what we read online in our region.

Personally, I still probably read too much online to get a wide perspective on how players feel, and man there are some strong feelings out there. But with patience and practice, finding the general trends can be useful to ensure you make the right calls. It’s tricky though so be careful when you do it for your game!

That’s it for today. Looking forward to stream this weekend and Patch 14.9. I’ve been too busy, but I’m finally going to push to Masters, so looking forward to just some deep TFT playing. Until next time, take it easy 🙂

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