I remember 3 years ago when I first started play League, Riot would release a champion every 2 months.
Now, there are only 2 champs released and 1 teased in 2014, and it's almost August.
What is the reason behind this?
There's many reasons.
The main reason I think is because of how much longer it takes to make more balanced and better designed (mostly better designed) Champions now than it did back 2-3 years ago.
Another reason is it's better for the game overall. It would be bad if Riot continuously made new Champions instead of focusing on bringing back and reworking older Champions to have a place in League, because right now there's a lot of Champions that need a lot of love in the visual department
love in the gameplay department
and love in both
If they went back to releasing new champs every month or 2 months, things would get so incredibly difficult to balance, because there'd be THAT many more factors to consider when making changes to the game.
Quality > Quantity
Noctes gives some good analysis here. The only thing I'd really like to add on here is this:
When Riot first came out with league, they had a vision to make an awesome game. But they didn't really have a core set of design values. Now they do. However, there's a LOT of content in league that was made back when Riot didn't have those values, so their top priority right now is getting all the old content up to recent quality standards, and bring it in line with their design values.
I think its because before the didn't have a big selection which made balancing a lot easier but since theirs over 100 champs making sure a champs kit is unique but not OP or UP is hard so basically what Noctes Sercon said
I'd rather they took their time instead of releasing another Quinn.
