Riot an easy fix to Graves being allowed/not allowed to have his cigar.

Embertine·Aug 5, 2015·4 votes·870 views

Okay you know how you took away his cigar due to laws over in China? Well you know how you also make completely different artwork for champions, and even change blood effects and such for China? Why not simply give graves his cigar back for us Americans and the Europians, and just leave the Chinese one alone without his cigar? Wouldn't that not only abide by the Chinese law, but also let Graves have his cigar for the rest of us?

9 Comments

SharjoAug 5, 20152 votes

Because, as they said, they don't want different regions to have need different splash arts or whatever because of cultural sensitivity. They'd rather just not have the cigar for everyone than have it for some and not for others. That's the whole reason why Karthus is a withered necromancer now and not very skeletony anymore.

EmbertineAug 5, 20151 votes

Again, they make different splash arts and even in game effects, for China alone. Thus they cannot use that argument as they already make differences based on national law and cultural sensitivity.

SharjoAug 5, 20151 votes

That's something they want to change though, and they've said that. They don't want to have to censor for one particular part of the world; they want everyone to have the same experience regardless of where you are.

EmbertineAug 7, 20151 votes

But we aren't talking about gameplay. We are talking about a single splash art that does not effect the gameplay at all. Giving graves his cigar for western players will have no more effect than Leona having both a western and Chinese splash art, which she does.

SharjoAug 7, 20151 votes

Who said we were talking about gameplay? Riot doesn't want the game to be different across regions for whatever reason; they want a consistent experience. That's why they're willing to get rid of a cigar. The art is also a part of the game, and they want that to be consistent to and not have to censor for some people. They'll likely continue with this in the future so that there won't be a chinese version of a splash art. There won't need to be, because the art will be able to work everywhere. They'd rather everyone have the same experience all around. That's the point.

EmbertineAug 7, 20151 votes

Well if that is the case than they need to replace both of the western and Chinese splash arts for leona, mundo and several other champions, with a single version each, instead of simply leaving them be like they have been doing.

SharjoAug 7, 20151 votes

Well Leona, Mundo and several other champions just need updated splashes regardless. All in due time my friend.

HellioningAug 5, 20151 votes

Because it saves time. If you have to make multiple splash arts for each region, that takes time and effort away from making more actual content. They'd rather only have to make one Graves splash, use that for the entire world, and then have their splash team work on other things, like new skins.

GreenLoreAug 7, 20151 votes

chinese only splash arts are a thing of the past though,most of them have been changed already (for example sivir or karthus when they received VUs) and the rest will follow eventually.