Riot - You need to focus on VGUs if you're going to use your videos and artwork to sell the game.

Oleandervine·1/22/2020, 2:43:43 PM·68 votes·15,808 views

It's pretty misleading to show things like Lux in art form on your new front page, not to mention a lot of other champions too - only to have them look horribly dated in the game. If this is your new direction on how you want to market the game, you have to have the game match the marketing material to a degree. I understand some marketing material is an exaggeration, but it shouldn't be that far off from how things are in the game. But when characters like Lux are rocking graphics from like 7-8 years ago, and champions like Akali and Senna look stunning and brand new and modern, it creates a pretty monstrous divide.

So yeah, I get you want to push new champions going forward. But if that's your push, it needs to match your marketing overall. You can't showcase old champions in all kinds of media, not update them, then tell us that your major focus is new champions. Both of these statements have to be meeting and moving forward together, not diverging and giving players two competing narratives on the game.

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Thresh Outta Fux1/22/2020, 6:55:22 PM15 votes

Udyr DrMundo Corki Malzahar Shaco should be top priorities for visual updates right now. Malz's "vgu" didn't really do very much, they didnt even change the color of his spells and voidling on the Shadow Prince skin.

huhndog1/22/2020, 7:09:37 PM11 votes

Amumu REALLY needs a VGU. He was one of the starting champions and he still has the same model

Sewer Side1/22/2020, 4:54:27 PM5 votes

2019 had more reworks than releases until Riot sharted one after another in the last two months.

Also, re the Lux part: Ultimate skin = no VGU for you.

NelsieLisnen1/22/2020, 6:10:10 PM4 votes

Perhaps they can't milk as much money out of reworked champs since most players already own them and a bunch of their skins. With new champs everyone rushes to get them, plus they are guaranteed to make green out of their release skins. I agree, we need more VGUs or straight VUs, since at their current pace it'll take at least 5-6 years to address all the champs in need of an update. At least they should do a 50-50. Something like 5 releases-5 reworks per year. That said, it's pretty cool what they said, that from now on they'll be pulling characters that we've already known in the lore and making champs out of them. Makes for some wild theorizing. It's also nice how they've been approaching reworks as of late.

Pika Fox1/22/2020, 8:23:05 PM3 votes

Lux LITERALLY just got an animations update. She doesnt need a model update.

Raiyza1/23/2020, 2:29:35 AM2 votes

They need to focus on their shitty client and their horrible game balance before they focus on VGUs.

lunarcana1/22/2020, 10:24:31 PM1 votes

it's not realistic to expect any game to have the same level of visuals in their marketing in comparison to their actual game, especially in a game like LoL where there are a gazillion champions

with that being said, i do wish they would do more VGUs and updates for older champs; just saying though, yall are going too far by criticizing their homepage and marketing strats- its pretty intuitive for any game company