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by madrox 2126 days ago
Despite thinking Riot has excellent insight into competitive game development, I'm pretty cynical about their recent wave of sharing since it wreaks of image repair. It doesn't matter what there is to learn from Riot if the culture is poisonous, and I don't believe it's changed much since the last wave of allegations. It's a shame, since this looks pretty substantive, but I'd rather learn this elsewhere.
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It's extremely difficult in Riot's case to separate the content they make from the culture of their company, and I agree with you that it's not really possible to do. I think that this resource is still an interesting collection of material and it's worth the time evaluating on its merits while keeping the perspective of the company's values in mind.
They have held an extremely interesting tech blog for years, but it makes sense that they would talk more about design only after they had more than one game on the market.