These events are a band-aid to the problems plaguing Narrative is that it runs like a complete and utter joke.
Ten months. For ten months they've asked for patience. They wanted an ambitious rework to finally free themselves of the constraints of the IoW and the League of Legends itself. Okay. That's cool. Most of us were mad - probably. Retcons are never popular, but that certain naive percentage believed that more was coming.
And nothing ever came.
At least nothing of the scale of previous lore. With the Crystal Scar, you had the JoJ slowly hinting and building up towards the story. You had the emergency JoJ issue. You had Skarner as a champ release and a gameplay mode to seal the deal. It was an actual STORY. You had Demacia and Noxus slowly escalating the conflict from minor mining town drama to full blown international incident.
With Bilgewater? Blegh, let's do something for summer. No build up or anything. Just slap it on and go.
For me, Narrative is a joke. It's an utter joke.
- For one thing, Narrative doesn't tell a story
- For another, Narrative definitely isn't replacing the lore like it promised it would, it's actually butchering it DOWN IN SIZE
- And lastly, Narrative is so focused on worldbuilding aspects with flavor text and short stories about OTHER characters besides the champions themselves and introduce them in stupid ingame taunts as eastereggs after saying gameplay and lore was now divorced.
Utterly ridiculous.
Admittedly, all of these would be really minor issues but goddamn - TEN MONTHS? These people were paid for ten months? Actually, it'd make more sense if this was outsourced to an intern or a bunch of volunteers but the fact this is coming from PAID RIOT-ERS, oh man - what a joke.