Will there be a point where Riot simply ditches the current game engine for a new one?

darkdill·Jun 25, 2018·1 votes·1,064 views

At some point, League's current engine is just going to stop working for their purposes. Whether it's new Champions that can't fit the code, or far too many unfixable bugs, at some point I think that Riot's going to just want to go to a "League of Legends 2" game engine that far better fits their needs (i.e. an engine that can support multi-unit control).

Is this an eventual plan, or has Riot dug themselves in too deep with the current engine?

6 Comments

MrFawknSunshineJun 25, 20181 votes

sure there would be but why would they address it at all if they keep making $$$$$$$$$$$$

AzadetheJun 25, 20181 votes

Dunno. Riot is owned by Tencent, and they only have 2 games left in the MOBA profit making margins: Dungeon Fighter and League of Legends. Most of their other money ventures are outside of Online gaming. So they could just close up the online gaming department if League ever failed.

Although..... They just bought Path of Exile from Grinding Gear Games..... so who knows..... Maybe they'll expand. I think they probably see an opportunity in Net Neutrality being abolished, and know they have bandwidth buying power, so they can "conservator" all these games that need bandwidth and provide that infrastructure, since they are big and the game developers are not.

They might become to gaming what OPEC is to Oil..... the company that decides which game companies thrive and which ones die.... by buying up bandwidth (Opec does it through releasing oil reserves on the market, which bankrupts small oil companies and keeps the competition only among large (and few) competitors)

EatAssSkateFastJun 26, 20181 votes

Didn't Congress not allow the removal of net neutrality after it was brought there?

AzadetheJun 26, 20181 votes

Senate voted 52 - 47 to reinstate, but House refuses to even floor the issue.

pseudo dionysiusJun 26, 20181 votes

They will probably make a new engine 5 years down the line. Unfortunately, it won't fix current issues and just make more of them. Can't really trust riot on those kind of things.