I have been playing this game for a long time and I would like to play champions before their rework. To be honest I think the champions before the rework were better and more fun to play.
Dead Anime Dad9 votesDo they even still have the old versions laying around somewhere? Either way I'd kill to get a chance to play old Sion one last time.
Nigyass3 votesI'm sure they have it somewhere, I am a game developer and all the old versions are saved in a cloud. They can revert back to it and pull the champion from there.
floo4 votesNo they aren't. Riot stated it themselves, they don't exist anymore.
Janakin1 votesOk, but this is an INDIE company (rito) we are talking about.
Dead Anime Dad3 votesI'm sure they have it somewhere, I am a game developer and all the old versions are saved in a cloud. They can revert back to it and pull the champion from there.
Makes sense, and thinking about it they did have old rework models in the Galio remake video so they are probably tucked away in a dark corner. Atleast ryze 1 can hug ryze 2 for warmth.
DuskDaUmbreon2 votesRiot has explicitly stated that they do not. I suspect they keep the code around for a patch, just in case, but it's 100% gone after that. They don't keep them around anywhere.
DuskDaUmbreon2 votesRiot has explicitly stated that they do not. I suspect they keep the code around for a patch, just in case, but it's gone. They don't keep them around anywhere.
Blue Shift4 votesI would honestly pay for a chance to play all the old League of legends, not just the champions.
I want a chance to experience the old League pre Runes reforged, elemental drags, all the new champions like Zoe, Pyke, and Sylas, etc...
I say just do something like Classic WOW and I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in playing, either all the old players who quit because the game got worse, or the newer players who want to experience the game everyone says was much better.
Although, I don't think they would do something like this, because it would take a MASSIVE chunk of the playerbase away and would cut sales by a lot if they ever decided to remove it like URF.
puckmungo3 votesThey won't do it, it would split the playerbase up too much. And how would you decide which version of champs to include? And which patch to play on, plus who knows what bugs might get introduced. It would need it's own testing etc., costing Riot more resources that they probably don't want to spend.
Nigyass2 votesYa I would like to play the champions before their rework. I am new to this game and it would be cool to try them out.
Sir Saltarin2 votesNo and will never happen.
starbearyx32 votesSounds like fun! I actually never got to play the champs out before rework. I really really really want to try one day. The game mode will be fire.
Ashe mage AD2 votesRather they should bring 1 for All back for like 2 weeks on each new champ release and while they're at it, make it about the new champ.
MrEnds2 votesthat would be a very interesting and fun gamemode, but only be allowed to play the champions who've had full vgu reworks with full kit reworks
Thingamajig2 votesthat would be extremely expensive and nobody would play stuff like old ww for more than 2 games out of pure nostalgia
CouchPotatoSalad1 votesCome on @riotgames let us play the old league of legends. You can do it for an april fools joke and revert the game back to it's classic for like a week
DuskDaUmbreon3 votesAh yes, they should re-create 10 years of code for a week or two at most. That's a perfect use of dev time!
Blue Shift1 votesYou know nothing about code or even what you are talking about.
DuskDaUmbreon3 votesWe know, by Riot's own admission, they don't keep around the code.
If they don't have it, in order to get that back, they'd have to re-create it. Since, you know, it doesn't exist.
You don't need to know a single fucking thing about coding to realize that you can't just put up absolutely no code and have it function. That's the exact opposite of functioning, actually.
You also don't need to have a degree to understand that "We do not keep old code around" means "We do not keep old code around". Granted, I'm no expert, but I do believe that "old code" refers to code from the past, which such a thing would inevitably have to contain.
And, sure, not every single thing would have to be re-added. A lot of it is either incredibly similar or identical to live, and a lot of stuff probably wouldn't need to be reverted anyways. But every single reworked champion would have to be re-programmed back into the game, and people would have to re-create the models.
Blue Shift2 votesMan, don't try to sound smart about things you don't know, it's the #1 rule on the internet.
You know nothing about coding so stop trying to contribute to conversations about it.
DuskDaUmbreon3 votesDo you want to actually explain why you need to be able to code in order to read an article that Riot put out about their own game and internal processes?
Blue Shift3 votesDo you think they have the same amount of people working on the game as 10 years ago?
Do you think 10 years ago there were as many things like champions, interactions and items?
Do you think the developers were as experienced with game making 10 years ago?
Do you think the game engine is the same as it was 10 years ago?
Do you think there is the same amount of people play testing the game to find things like bugs?
Do you think they need to make up entirely new champions to put into this older version?
You seem to think for 3-4 years straight they were just writing code, like we are still using the same programs to write code, like if we were to make a game from 2011, we need to go back to 2011 with their processing speeds and technology.
Stop arguing on subjects you are inexperienced on.
DuskDaUmbreon2 votesI did not say "10 years ago". I said "10 years".
Yeah, all of that is accurate. Everything's changed in 10 years, or at least basically everything has.
At the same time...That's 10 years of code. Not code from 10 years ago, 10 years of it. 10 years, not 1 year that was 10 years ago.
Overall, that adds up to more than live. Once you add everything up, it'd take more time to re-create each thing from the past 10 years than to remake the entire live game from the ground up.
It doesn't matter that there's more people - There's still 10 fucking years of shit. Because, yeah, that's also 10 years of art. They could dig up the splash arts from the wiki, probably, but all of the goddamn models and effects and shit would also have to be re-created.
Sure, I don't code. I barely know anything about coding. At the same time, I realize that there's been a lot of shit in 10 years. And you can't just revert to a specific patch (which would be significantly less code), because you're going to leave a lot of people pissed because "Wtf Riot that patch was shit why not revert to !?!?!?!?" from 90% of people.
Blue Shift2 votesThere isn't 10 years of it though, I am so confused about what you're asking for and why you're explaining it like they need to redo everything over the past 10 years to make this.
FSRER1 votesYou know why that will not happen?
Pie Otter1 votesThey already said they have so much trouble bringing back stuff such as nightmare bots because of champion updates over the years, so they're likely not going to do something that's even more work such as aiming at all these champions who need to be reverted back. Old coding (character codes) with new coding (maps and such) are not going to tie in well together and it's going to require more than just slapping on old code to a champion model.
Pie Otter1 votesAlso, yikes, balancing.
Radiant Wukong1 votes
old versions are too op. There's a reason they were reworked.
RIOT doesn't needs full do something with Tryndamere though.
Daddy Ants1 votesIt's not going to happen.
https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2017/05/ask-riot-classic-mode/
We can’t just pull in old data and expect the current game engine to play nice with it all. We could almost certainly make it work if we had a bunch of smart engineers working to make it happen, but then those engineers would not be working on other features that might be more valuable to you guys in the long run. Likewise, we could have designers create versions of existing champs that tried to mimic the old data (Season Two abilities, items, tuning, etc.) but that’s a mountain of work for something that might only be fun for a few games or so. In other words, the opportunity cost of that work is probably pretty expensive.
So philosophically, we aren’t opposed to playing an older version of LoL, and it might be fun for a short period of time (because we might very well discover that the reasons we made all of the Season Three, Four, and Five changes still exist), but there is a good chance it’s not worth the development effort that it would take.
