What exactly is your plan for the state of the game? Are you planning to release new heroes every other week without changing the maps, or perhaps add in a new map and make it random rotation?

In my opinion, if the game is going be competitive, it should be like Warcraft 3. Have several maps, say three, for a week and just like the champions, rotate the maps to a different three. Have the maps be random so people can't pick one champion who has a complete advantage.

Basically, I am curious if the Riot staff has a nice list of "Things to do before [insert date]."

Season 1 is planned by mid 2010.
http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board...ad.php?t=67725
http://www.leagueoflegends.com/indev/In_Development

Different teams on different areas. People need to stop complaining about the influx of new champions - The champ-design guys are presumably not the same guys in charge of maps/ranked play/etc.

...which doesn't particularly answer the question of why it's taking so long, but hey >.>

Alright, so mid-2010 means by June?

Patience, Grasshoppa.

yes releasing champions every 2 weeks and skins = money

they said they won't release new maps for the same mode ~ lol they suck IMO

Yes. Let's remake LoL into WC3.

I'm curious who is +1-ing and -1-ing everyone. . .

Anyway, it was just a suggestion. Of course, Riot won't see the suggestion because the forum will be filled with whiners complaining about the server being down.

For me, my priorities if I managed a game would be:

1) Stabilize the servers
2) Make it competitive
-Clans, tournaments, replays
3) Hold national competition
4) Balance champions based on competitive results
-Is everyone picking one champion each game? Maybe he's overpowered. . .
5) Once everything is balanced, add in a new champion or two
-Not three in one week or whatever the ratio is
6) Provide incentives for people to keep playing after they reach level 30
-Double IP weekend, every champion is free weekend, weekly non-competitive tournaments where winner gets Riot points/skins, etc.
7) Repeat Step 3

Riot can take these suggestions or not, just one players advice based on other games.

(PS - Don't release a game if you don't have stable servers. I can understand every now and again because of some crazy glitch or something, but every couple of days? No way.)