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@RIot, Will We Ever See Regularly Scheduled Lore Updates Return?

Impetual·11/9/2015, 9:18:17 AM·4 votes·413 views

Back in the day, we used to get lore updates every two weeks.

Not only were those updates every two weeks, they were also awesome! We got cool stories about Blitzcrank's fleshling compatibility service, and Jax and Gragas wrecking up a bar and running off. There was even some cool political intrigue with the Institute of War.

While I understand that champion development takes a lot longer now, and we can't expect champions to be released every two weeks anymore... Riot has seemingly decided to nearly halt it's lore production post retcon. Compared to the amount of lore content Riot used to produce, there is a dramatic drop in the rate that lore content is released - with only a debatable change in quality. (The BIlgewater event was pretty awesome, but the Freljiord and Shurima events were kinda lackluster IMO. It also sucks to see beloved characters retconned into something they weren't)

it would be really cool if we could get story updates for the League of Legends on a regular basis again.

These days, Runeterra doesn't seem to have any development outside of event lore, and that only comes two or three times a year. Riot's lore production pales in comparison to what it used to be.

@RIot, could we get back to bi-weekly lore updates?

3 Comments

Shac Norris11/9/2015, 9:55:13 AM3 votes

The fact they removed the journal of justice shows that they already dont give a shit about lore, they're just doing some lore events to make everybody who likes lore shut up.

There won't be any weekly lore stories, no matter how awesome it would be.

Sneak Dog11/9/2015, 12:24:23 PM2 votes

I won't consider the new lore actually started until Riot starts regular lore updates. I'm fearing it'll only be monthly though. Right now the new lore is still getting shaped and fleshed out, Riot is picking what they want to keep from the previous lore and what they want to make up right now.

This foundationwork usually happens in beta, but Riot decided to retcon the world...

GreenLore11/9/2015, 8:09:28 PM1 votes

While regular lore updates would be awesome,I doubt we'll get them before they finished up the retcon(which really takes too long).

However even if the retcon got finished,I wouldn't count on them releasing lore regularly,as it would mean they'd have set deadlines for their lore,which would in turn mean that they might have to rush some lore and one piece of badly written lore can be devastating to the whole lore,as it could influence lots of characters/places in a bad way and I doubt they'd want to risk that.