@Riot: "Create a champion" competition

JimmynatorB·8/12/2014, 10:42:24 PM·5 votes·1,292 views

There are many good champion concepts created by players, and some of them are actually game developers or artists like the guys at Riot, so I thougth you could host a competition to create a champion that will actually MAKE IT INTO THE GAME. Something like having a concept competition, then ability competition for each ability, and then a lore competition, like you would normally do in Riot to create a champion. You could act as moderators and talk about the most popular abilities to see if they would be healthy for the game and such.

This would make the community feel noticed and would make us feel awesome and love you even more. I know this is a HUGE thing, but I feel like this is be the most awesome thing you could ever do. I beg you to do this, please :3

10 Comments

ploki1228/12/2014, 10:56:51 PM3 votes

It has been discussed multiple times and there are many problems with it :

The time a champion spends in work is really really long. Iirc, Jinx (or Vi if she came before her) was being worked on for easily 6-8 months. Knowing that you won the contest, but not seeing the final product for a really long time would be pretty disappointing. Heck, it's highly probable that not every participants of the contest would be still playing the game by the time the champion came out.
The reason it takes so much time is because there are a lot of cahnges being made. Sometimes synergy between them and another champion is too good and would make the duo lane's meta be "these 2 champs". Other times, an ability ends up being "just a little off" and reworked into something new, or abilities are moved around (innate<->base<->ultimate). The fact that the winner isn't certain to see his champion as-is is kinda weird, since in the end it wouldn't be "his champion" that gets in.
Even worse than changes, there are quite a few champions that are either shelved or cancelled. Missing technology, a theme that doesn't fit the game, a champion that ends up not beign fun, waiting for X/Y/Z event or rework. There are many reasons that can justify that. If they say "the winner gets implemented", it means they can'T back down even if it ends up not fitting the game, which means heavier changes, which means lots of complaints.
Intellectual Property. Legislations are a bitch, and no matter what you do, there are ways to try and get a bit of royalties/compensations and always leech a little more than what the contract said. Just that human hassle alone is enough to deter them from doing so.

Linna Excel8/13/2014, 1:00:10 AM1 votes

It'd been done in MtG via fans voting on just about everything. So I'd be for the devs trying a similar event here.