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Sometimes I really feel sad for the Riot Lore team

SaltyToplaneGoat·6/2/2018, 5:56:35 PM·4 votes·3,742 views

Because they put their blood, sweat, and tears into all this work, going as far as pushing unconventional ideas like audio dramas and making them succesful beyond expectations. It reminded me of the audio books I heard as a kid (mostly ones targeted at children back from the 70s), and I doubt I have even sat down to hear an audio drama at a single time in the last 15 years, as the medium is just too unconventional by todays standard. Heck, back in the day, RADIOS had audio dramas going on. Like, not niche senders, but them BIG guys, who even went out of their way to produce stuff like that. Good luck finding any of that on the airwaves today - would make being stuck in traffic a lot more entertaining that just the same 5 annoying pop-songs playing on repeat...

So all this effort, all this work, all this blood, sweat, and tears...

... and the gameplay balance department three doors down the corridor makes it all for naught, because they seem to actively drive people away from the game. Sadly, even the best lore will go left unread, if no one is even playing the actual game. Gotta hope Riot themselves has a Plan B for a new game to use all this wonderful lore in, after they let our well-known lead gameplay designer Mr. "I had several courses of online marketing, but no way to not make my posts look like they are content-less constructs for the sake of self-presentation" drive this one down into the mud for good.

I mean, it would be really a shame to let this wonderful world go to waste, right?!

18 Comments

LBmyBB6/2/2018, 6:32:33 PM2 votes

Make the lores good then ppl will like them.

calibergunsaint6/2/2018, 8:54:26 PM2 votes

Even though I agree that the main focus of the entire game is on the gameplay side, I really don't belive that the gameplay team are doing a bad job. Instead of keeping the game as it is, they keep trying to change it, see what is doing better and what isn't, trying to spice things up.

In the fight between "I leave cause I personally don't like where this change went" and "I leave cause this game hasn't changed for over some time", I prefer the first option, at least there's something that's being done and not just left to be. And if a lot of people complain about changes, guess what? The team can just change it back. It's not really a decrease in people playing, it's more an exchange of old ones leaving because they don't like where the game went on and new ones who like where the game is now. Although one of the problems with a new generation is that they,too, don't know the lore, and now there are even less people to tell them it. So yeah, we need more ways to direct people to the lore, but we still got time to do so, cause league is not leaving for a long time.

Stars Shaper6/2/2018, 9:28:44 PM2 votes

One can enjoy the lore while still playing few matches.

The art team is the one responsible for the game's financial entries and they are doing their best to deliver skins that will be bought by the majority of the playerbase.