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A Conversation @ Riot HQ after Changing Varus

Chaeyeoní·12/1/2017, 5:31:56 AM·69 votes·1,718 views

(Conversatin at Riot HQ) Classic Riot: We just released a new lore for Varus! Now he is a darkin who's inside two people that are gay. Riot Intern: Wait, so we are re-making his visuals to a pair Champion like Kindred? Classic Riot: NOPE. It's two people in one body. (Whispers) they merged. Varus, who's a darkin, is in that same body. 3 entities in 1. Riot Intern: WTF. The Holy Trinity? Classic Riot: Sure. **Riot Intern: **Why not just make a New Champion and make him/her LGBT? **Classic Riot: **... (thinking) Riot Intern: That would satisfy the LGBT Players by giving them something fresh/new and not FUCK the Varus players that loves the Old Varus/Old Lore. Classic Riot: That's a brilliant idea but no. Thanks for sharing :) It will be super unprofessional for us to change something just after releasing it. Riot Intern: But you guys do that with every insensible buff or champ release. Galio Hotfix? Camille release? Zyra release? Classic Riot: /mute all.

27 Comments

SeedyVirtuoso12/1/2017, 10:48:56 AM17 votes

Honestly that's what it's feeling like.

4NoxiousHours12/1/2017, 5:59:47 PM14 votes

"Thanks for sharing" LOL That's EXACTLY how Riot employees are. You give them a suggestion, tip, etc they reply with something like that.

Weiss Guertena12/1/2017, 6:56:50 PM10 votes

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**Riot Intern: **Why not just make a New Champion and make him/her LGBT?

Please. It's 2017. We don't make new [insert minority here] characters - it's cheaper to take old, well established ones and change them.

Owyn12/2/2017, 1:09:44 AM2 votes

Riot Intern: That would satisfy the LGBT Players by giving them something

as an apache helicopter I'm offended that i'm not being satisfied by RIOT, are they apachaphobic or something? gotta prepare some bonfires outside their HQ... [sg-shisa]

BILLAY12/2/2017, 1:42:30 AM2 votes

walking threesome

samthehamm14712/1/2017, 4:18:56 PM1 votes

You'll be fineeeee

Oleandervine12/2/2017, 12:42:25 AM1 votes

This whole "give them their own champ" is just another branch of the inability to accept things and the hope that separating it away from you will somehow make things feel better. They chose to update his lore. Deal with that. You do not own the game, and your wants regarding the lore are fan theories and nothing more. Riot would have made a new champ if they so chose. They instead picked a champion who was sitting around with a stagnant existence and made him different and unique. Gay people can be pleased by this just as much as they can be pleased by a new champ. Gay people who played Varus would actually be pretty thrilled now that they can form a deeper connection to the story of their main. So just because straight people have blown their tops because their main is now made of gay men, gay people can be ecstatic that their main is now made of gay men. The street runs both ways, and Riot chose to go the direction to represent the few. Deal with it, or play Lucian if you really crave the dead wife revenge story.