What will be next?

Ghiefelstein·Apr 15, 2015·2 votes·693 views

What do you want added to the game next?

Ranked Team Builder
Release of Ao Shin
New tribunal
Reworks for Gangplank / Poppy / Taric / Urgot / Fiora / Shen
Anything lore-related
Champion Mastery
Chroma skins
Replay system
Fighter project
Something else

One thing I learned is that I never see the biggest changes coming, no matter which team was responsible for it. Things like the new summoner's rift, jungle diversity, a free skin for positive players and the Sion rework are amazing. I can't wait for Riot's next surprise!

6 Comments

ZrimaApr 15, 20154 votes

Hexakill Urf all for-one on the ARAM map with a random Neutral Xerath in the middle.

Azir Frejlurima Event! Lissandra

Davids UploaderApr 15, 20154 votes

I didnt know that I needed this until now, but....I need this.

DrCyanideApr 15, 20152 votes

Stuff I want to get next:

Replay System
Ability to make games worthy of the name "Custom"
Anything lore-related

These are features that Starcraft 1 had, I'm not exactly asking for anything revolutionary or unheard of here.

Stuff I don't care about at all:

Release of Ao Shin
Champion Mastery
Fighter Project
New Tribunal

Stuff Riot doesn't care about at all:

Release of Ao Shin
Reworks for Gangplank / Poppy / Taric / Urgot / Fiora / Shen
Anything lore-related
Replay System

Maybe I'm being overly critical, but It's been over seven months since the Lore team was planning on giving us new lore (keeping time based on Azir's release, which is when a lot of champions had their lore removed). I don't buy the excuse of it being a technical issue that's the main problem here. A technical issue didn't cause the existing lore to be reduced to two sentences per champion for months on end.

Replays... even if the replay file was saved on your local hard drive, and only for the most recent game, people would love it! Even if it was restricted to your point of view, it'd still be worlds better than what we have now, which is relying on third party software. Supposedly the server update they did last year was a step towards making replays happen, but I can't shake the feeling that it's coming so slow because they're making the first pass overly complicated.

Ao Shin - The champion that always is expected to come out a year from when you last asked about him. People need to forget this concept and move on, because there's a decent chance what we've seen about him won't exist when he's released.

Reworks are nice, and little touch ups are nice, but sometimes I feel like these little touch ups are being applied to the wrong champions. If Gangplank didn't have a cast time on his Raise Moral, he'd probably be in a better spot, yet I don't anticipate that happening anytime in the near future.

GhiefelsteinApr 15, 20151 votes

I don't believe the Lore team is doing nothing. They must be writing something and producing content. We just haven't seen it yet. That could have several reasons:

Problematic changes in leadership. New managers want new things and the stories never reach the players. This scenario must be really frustrating for the writers.
Riot is secretly planning something big. Just like they pulled a lot of artists to update Summoner's Rift, they could be planning a big lore event. I hope it is this one ;).
The lore department is busy with fleshing out their world. They are deciding what Runeterra looks like, but are not ready to involve players in that yet. They want everything in place before we get to see the content.

No matter what the reason is, we could see something lore related next month, next year or never. I want to believe Riot is creating lore. They just need to remember why they are writing lore at all (for the players).

DrCyanideApr 15, 20151 votes

I honestly think it's a management issue. Someone made the call to trash the current lore months before the new site would be ready for the new lore. That kind of decision falls on management, and so does the blame.