http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Throwing money at things doesn't make people work better, and hiring more people would make things worse.

Imagine you were writing a book. Suddenly you get stumped, so you call in a friend, and ask for their advice, and you two work on it for a while, then find yourselves in a corner, and end up calling a third friend. Eventually you'll get to the point where all of the people who you've called have no idea what they are supposed to be working on, and the book becomes completely different from where it started out. Not only that, but your main characters, which you so lovingly crafted, are now nothing like what you wanted them to be.

That's kind of what you're proposing. Hiring more programmers makes MORE issues, because not only do they need to become fluent in the games code, they need to become fluent in each others code style so as to not produce issues like this. It is entirely possible that this issue arose because of a new programmer hire missing a single word in the massive string of code that is League of Legends, how is hiring more people who have no idea what they are supposed to be looking for going to help? How is throwing more money at the people who are already working their asses off to fix it going to help?

And for those who are all raging about my "non-paying customers" quip. I have put in a decent sum of money into this game, more than I would most other games, that's for sure, and I intend on doing so again when I can afford it.

This argument is ridiculous, we aren't here to make the game, we are here to PLAY it. It's the equivalent to going into a restaurant where you eat your dinner everyday, ordering a dish, then not getting a dish because they have some problems back there in the kitchen... THEN GETTING FLAMED BY THE WAITER BECAUSE YOU CANNOT COOK AND COULDN'T POSSIBLY RUN A RESTAURANT BY YOURSELF. But you didn't came there for the philosophical debate about customer-service provider relations, you came here because you were hungry.

Except I'm not the waiter, I'm another customer who isn't getting all childish and bratty about the stove being broken, when the company is being tight lipped about what the ACTUAL problem is. And as another customer, I'd like to see him fix the completely unknown problem better than the paid professionals who have been working their asses off for days.

What we have here is something that is generally caused by having a fuzzy view on what are and are not the actions of responsible consumers. What does it mean to be a responsible consumer? Responsible consumers do not sit back be happy with a sub-par product. Nor are they the people who receive a sub-par product, then proceed to piss and moan about it and refuse to stop throwing their fit until their risotto is perfectly creamy and seasoned, or God help you they will whine some more.

What a responsible consumer would, and should do, is give the producers of the product they invest in (be that time, money, or other such assets) feedback on the product, both good and bad. A responsible consumer expresses being pleased with their product as often as they express being displeased. But a common trend in this media is that there is a good chunk of people who will say nothing unless they have something to whine about. It is a consumer's privilege to use the media the producer puts out, not their right. Thus they are not as entitled as a lot of the whiners seem to think they are. Now, do not get me wrong friend, I am not calling you a whiner. But I am calling you the kind who would pull an endless fuss if their risotto didn't have enough butter or salt.

If the producer continues to displease you, do you know what is well within your rights? To leave. To not use the product indefinitely, or until they meet your standards. That is well within the rights of a consumer to do, whether in a game or a restaurant. Ask for them to redo it, if you're not pleased, eat somewhere else.