Why League of Legends ERASED its own story

Noies·9/11/2018, 2:28:01 AM·27 votes·11,484 views

I think its pretty tragic that the games lore is pretty much ruined for a lot of people because they

made a poor story to start with
decided to scrap the story that people who cared about the lore of the game already knew and were invested in. (seriously wtf)

Even if the writing staff for Riot is good at coming up with a 'replacement lore' for everything they deleted, none of what they produce will ever be cared about by the vast majority of the fan base. It will simply piss off the people who cared about the lore before, and those who didn't care about the lore are just going to be confused by the conflicting story.

I play a lot of RPG games and read a lot, I like stories. But the butchery that they've made of league's previous lore just pisses me off.

147 Comments

Terozu9/11/2018, 2:43:44 AM13 votes

I mean. Most of the fanbase loves the new lore and like the most praised part of tge game with a few exceptions.

RiotBioluminescence9/11/2018, 4:03:07 AM9 votes

I watched this video this morning - pretty grim viewing :/ Folks here (and the OP, Noies) seem to be be the kind of players who have thought about this deeply - what do you all suggest for the future?

Of course, we cannot change the past, and flip-flopping back would likely be the worst of all possible worlds. What do folks here think would be the best path ahead?

I know this will probably turn into a "Yeah but I want to talk about how bad the past was!" discussion, but there is literally no time machine available (not even for poor Zilean or Ekko) - so what's your solution-orientated future? If you just want to rant at someone at Riot, I'm happy to take that on the chin though :)

[galio-happy]

Totally cool if you don't have suggestions - it's not incumbent on you to do so, after all, but I wanted to hear from folks who might have opinions and want to share them.