Boards›Story, Art, & Sound

Jaredan, While You're Around Let's Talk About Cadence...

Starlighte·7/24/2015, 5:35:00 AM·4 votes·1,330 views

I can honestly say, as somebody who is one of Narrative's biggest skeptics at this point, I am impressed with what was pushed out in this Bilgewater event. Quality were great and delivery and artistic touch was also fantastic and what I've come to expect from Riot, but that leads me to the shortcomings of this event, which may dampen your spirits but they're worth discussing.

Everyone else:

If you're not part of Shurima (because we assume there are some more stories and lores to be released) and you're not from Bilgewater, and yet you inhabit Runeterra, you're probably in a REALLY awkward place. There are a lot of loose ends and gaps in the fabric of the universe right now, and there are no plans to patch them as far as we are aware. So, can we talk about plans to patch the quilt of Runterra that is tattered currently?

Cadence:

And while we're patching it, let's talk about Cadence. Because right now, Cadence is awful. I doubt anyone can really argue it, so let's talk about why cadence is awful, and if it will improve. Because going forward, we can't just do 2 big events a year, retcon some things left gaping from the original retcon, and hope that our character are (or aren't, if you're worried they will no longer look like the character you once loved) next.

Promises, Schedules, and More Everything:

I get it, everybody at Riot is afraid of promises and afraid of schedules, but Narrative has to be different. They have a lot of bad history to erase, and the typical methods aren't going to work with how long it went untouched. We need some talk about the future going forward, tech issues resolved, and a periodic method in which to expect the release of new lore (our chapter 2's and beyond) because doing them only during events, will mean this world appears to never move because of how big the roster of characters in it is.

At The End Of The Day, We're All Human:

I realize you may not want to talk about the tough things right now, but there is no time like the present to correct the mistakes of yesterday.

5 Comments

Solideus7/26/2015, 1:57:28 PM3 votes

Jaredan gives the impression that they want to deliver lore at a quicker pace, and I see no reason to believe he's not genuine. Development takes time, so stuff will never come out as quickly as we'd want, because we always want more of it. Thing is, making production more time-efficient takes development-time and -resources too. If there was a way to fix their pipeline over-night, of course they would've.

Also, this last part is a matter of preference, but personally I don't want them to move resources into improving efficiency if it will affect quality in the meantime. I'd want the resources needed to reach the quailty-bar to be directed there first. Improving efficiency should be the second priority, imho.

Starlighte7/24/2015, 9:59:32 PM1 votes

Bump since Jaredan is back around, and it isn't 3 AM anymore.

GreenLore7/26/2015, 5:11:33 PM1 votes

I think its safe to say that those from the Freljord is also pretty much safe.

Sure the Freljord event came before the announcement of the retcon,but it was most likely done with the retcon already in mind,considering that none of the freljord champions mention the IoW now and that the conflict is completely seperate from the IoW as well.

Shadow isles are in a similar position though they are all stuck with short lores and I guess Eve is still up to change.

Pyrodinium7/26/2015, 8:43:49 PM1 votes

Commiting to hard deadlines on periodic content would probably do more harm than good, because:

  1. Failing to meet those deadlines would generate hostile backlash, rekindle the talk about broken promises and make everyone unhappy.
  2. The need to meet the schedule may produce rushed or weak content. Any creative endeavor is by its own nature an iterative process, and rushing it tends to create subpar results.

While the lore delivery has been very slow, Narrative has shown the ability to create good content when given the opportunity to work on it at their own pace. I believe a looser, non-scheduled strategy works better here, as the team already seems to have the intention to speed up the cadence of lore release.

Slushi Simcambi7/26/2015, 9:24:31 PM1 votes

GIven the short stories coming out for TF, Graves, Gangplank, and assumedly MF I'm totally willing to give Jaerdan the benefit of the doubt and let him right more of these updated lore stories for champions.

These stories are OUTSIDE of the event, which is what really matters here.

If Jaerdan and his team produce something like these for everyone and Runterra at a reasonable pace then I will be quite satisfied with my lore fix.