The Game Cannot Survive & Be Fully Realized With 5 VGU a Year
There are 141 champions in League of Legends so far. I want to do some math here and I will apologize now if my numbers are off. Feel free to correct me because I am not good with math. I will not get upset if you correct me. I am counting Akali and Nunu in this.
There are 16 successfully completed VGU that resemble the type of gameplay updates and art Riot wants, since Gangplank basically. There are 18 new champions since the release of Kalista, who is probably in line of what champions play and look like today. 34 champions of 141 champions do not need a VGU. That means 107 champions still need a VGU to bring them up to date with the game.
If Riot Games Developers only do 3 to 5 VGU a year, with that being the highest and lowest numbers their work history has shown us but I am going to say 5, in about 21 years all 107 champions will receive a proper VGU that puts them in line of what the game looks and feels like today. In those years if the game is still up and running, there will be a total of maybe 70 plus new champions added to the game.
It's honestly not feasible and possible to do only 5 VGU a year and expect the entire game to be modernized. The League of Legends community since the very beginning said it was not a good idea to add new champions into the game. The community on a daily basis is growing more and more frustrated that older champions are being ignored, that new champions being added into the game are taking away from older champions, the balance and learning curve of the game is going up, and just it's not smart.
If the Developers did 10 VGU a year then it would mean that in 10 years the game would be fully modernized and a focus could then be on adding new and interesting champions into the game. The VGU doesn't even have to be large scale updates like a lot of them have been in the past. A lot of the existing champions really only need new visuals, lore and slight adjustments kit wise. The Developers refuse to hire more help and probably think the pace they are going at is acceptable and good. It's not. I did not even bother adding any new champions that will be added into the game in the meantime.
Do you guys think the Developers need to start doing more VGU a year than what we have now and do you think their needs to be no more new champions added?
as an example only needs a visual update.