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an idea for riot: classic leauge

rubberduckie666·9/17/2017, 6:25:28 PM·2 votes·358 views

im sure everyone has their own treasured memories of older seasons and im sure the players who havent experianced the older seasons would like a chance to experiance the storys they heard of.

so heres my idea, we bring back these old seasons as "leauge of legends: legacy" as its own game (some some tie ins to the main games account such as ip earned and champs owned).

now i'll admit, im not sure of the best way to go about this in terms of seasons and patches but i have my ideas.

for 1: we start at season 1 (or beta) and start updating a patch per week and restart once we get to x season and patch (my vote is we restart once we hit preseason 6)

2: the community votes on a season to start off in and we go from there

3: the community votes on season and patch per monthy

im eager to see what people think on this

hell i wana know what riot thinks of this as a company as much as a doubt they'll even read the post [sg-lulu]

2 Comments

Rykagnar9/17/2017, 7:02:24 PM1 votes

It's a fantastic idea, I love it - but I don't think Riot would ever do this, simply because they're too focused on trying to improve the current game that they probably wouldn't have time to restart their game and manage two patch notes, two updates, and champion introductions, all at different times.

HonestJohnTheCon9/17/2017, 7:06:31 PM1 votes

Riot answered this idea a while ago in an Ask Riot: http://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/2017/07/ask-riot-sexy-champs-and-butchers-bridge/

"We looked at doing this recently for a series of internal playtests, because we wanted to experience first-hand whether things like pacing or counterplay felt very different a few years ago. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to easily get the older builds running because so much of the game content and code has changed. We can’t just pull in old data and expect the current game engine to play nice with it all. We could almost certainly make it work if we had a bunch of smart engineers working to make it happen, but then those engineers would not be working on other features that might be more valuable to you guys in the long run. Likewise, we could have designers create versions of existing champs that tried to mimic the old data (Season Two abilities, items, tuning, etc.) but that’s a mountain of work for something that might only be fun for a few games or so. In other words, the opportunity cost of that work is probably pretty expensive. So philosophically, we aren’t opposed to playing an older version of LoL, and it might be fun for a short period of time (because we might very well discover that the reasons we made all of the Season Three, Four, and Five changes still exist), but there is a good chance it’s not worth the development effort that it would take."

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