Future of League of Legends
Seeing the big change in Season 5 with the new Summoners Rift and the changes made to the Champ Select in Season 6 and now on PBE we have more chat/group features, In-game features that will offer us free skins or champions just by playing the game, and now a new store layout is huge. The game has grown exponentially with these changes and I think the game is better for it for many reasons.
The changes already made:
- Summoners Rift - visual updates to the map are just to make it look more up-to-date rather than how it first began, and you can see a significant change in the amount of hype we got from this initially to how likely we are to see new players stay because the visuals progressed so well.
- Champion Select - One of the biggest and I would have to say best things that has come out since I started playing. In normal games and in ranked games there would always be fighting about who gets what, people threatening to feed or make the game less enjoyable, and we still see that, but it's gone down QUITE a lot. We get to not only choose our lane preference and secondary lane preference, but we also get to show what champions we want to play and go off of what type of comp we want or to just prevent that certain champion from being banned on our ban picks. Plus the visual update is just a lot better.
- Masteries - I wasn't too thrilled about the new masteries at first, however it brings a lot of diversity to what we see in the game as opposed to what we had before, and I've come to love Thunderlords as a mid laner.
- Chat Features (currently only on PBE) - Although I do not have access to PBE, let me just point out from the posts @Moobeat (surrender@20) creates that I see more of a community growth potential in the weeks to come after its release.
- Hextech Crafting - This is a big turn on for those who cannot afford to purchase skins and do not participate in contests or any other means to gain RP or mystery skins, or have friends to gift them. Having an element in the game to allow those of us who cannot put money toward the game, but still get a reward for playing in ways that were never introduced before is amazing. Granted this is still a good way for riot to make money because we can all imagine that there will be summoners that purchase these and can get great things from it, but the ones who cannot put money into the game can hope to get a skin for their favorite champion.
- Visual update to the shop - Honestly this is just visuals, it might also add better organization, however that's all I see, which is still great considering I still have that annoying scrolling bar on the side of my client's shop that I would like to see gone.
Changes I would like to see:
- Profile Visual Update - I would like to see things get stepped up on our profile, including a visual update to rune pages, masteries, match history, item sets, etc.
- Rearranging - I would like to see Mastery Pages and Rune Pages have the option of moving them around in an order that best suits the player. When making a new "mid lane champion" mastery page, I want to move it to organize with the rest of my mastery pages. Same thing goes with rune pages.
So far I only have 2 big ideas on great changes/updates I would love to see, but why don't you all give me some thoughts on what you would like to see updated? I want Riot Employees to comment as well to share with us what they would like to see or if they want to spoil some updates that they're working on!
See you all on the rift! [slayer-jinx-wink]