The way I see it, Riot could at ANY point threaten us with "Okay, we'll delete all story from the game and never tell you anything again", and it'd be all our own faults because they got pushed too far.
Am I wrong, Riot?
The way I see it, Riot could at ANY point threaten us with "Okay, we'll delete all story from the game and never tell you anything again", and it'd be all our own faults because they got pushed too far.
Am I wrong, Riot?
It's possible, but they would be really stupid to do that. Threats like that only encourage more of the same on the internet.
It's like when that father said "You Dun Goofed" and only got more of the same treatment, if not worse.
Also, a good champion will be played while popular/fits the meta/et cetera. A good champion with a good lore makes players fall in love with them. That loyalty brings people back for more. Get rid of the emotional attachment, some other game will come along and say "we have a good story over here!"
Riot would probably never outright delete the lore, because a good portion of the fanbase actually likes it, and would probably outright move to some other game if they were stupid enough to get rid of that demographic's draw-in. Crappy lore is better than no lore at all, if barely, but a bit of complaining is better for Riot than having part of their income vanish into the ether.
Lore exists to make champions more than just a soulless collection of skills. Lore gives a champion character, which the player may then identify with, and if they like the character enough to keep playing, then they keep making Riot money. Without lore, champions of all sorts are pretty much indistinguishable from the bland and lifeless player avatars of CoD and Battlefield, with nothing to differentiate one from another apart from skills, and really, the community is toxic enough without drawing in that crowd.
So the lore's actually quite a bit more important than you've implied, because the lore and the game are really the only two components of League of Legends, and without lore for flavor, there's no fun in playing apart from the hyper-competitive type of "fun" which is responsible for the "omfg u [expletive] suck [expletive] gtfo [expletive]" toxicity which Riot is trying to crack down on, and which the online FPS community is infamous for.
