@Riot, Why Is The Lore Development Cycle So Slow?

Impetual·Nov 16, 2015·2 votes·719 views

@Riot, while you were a smaller company with less money, you managed to produce lore content that was just as, if not more, well received than the lore that is being produced today.

This lore was produced at a much higher rate, at an arguably similar quality, if not higher.

Riot's restructuring over the years have left the lore of the game feeling less impactful than ever before. Heck, most of it was retconned out of existence!

@Riot, do you plan to make lore at least as good as it used to be?

If so, how! Seriously, actually tell us how you plan to do so!

7 Comments

GreenLoreNov 16, 20152 votes

Back then they simply made up the lore on the spot. They didn't think too much about the future,which is pretty much why we are having the lore retcon in the first place.

Nowadays they simply put much more thought into the lore. I mean just look at the way they fleshed out bilgewater. Before the bilgewater events,the town was pretty much just "some sort of pirate nation"-thingy.

La BelloNov 16, 20152 votes

NEVER FORGET

THE MEGLING GENOCIDE

NEVER FORGET

BLITZCRANKS DATING SERVICE

RAMMUSxCACTUS OTP

SharjoNov 16, 20151 votes

I think of all the things that ever came from the JoJ that Rammus x Cactus was the most insulting, because it insinuated that Rammus could only ever be loved by a prickly desert plant.

Also someone explain to me; what the hell was the Megling genocide? Was it just the fact that Meglings eventually all became Yordles?

La BelloNov 16, 20151 votes

before there were yordles

Teemo , Hiemer,rumble and there were meglings like Tristana,Poppy. the main distinction was that meglings did not have fur but instead had blue or purple skin

When Riot retconned alot of the lore they just changed everyone in the Bandle area to just be Yordles. Meglings is no longer a thing. Tristana used to be called the Megling gunner but now she is the Yordle gunner they also gave her fluffy ears and long nails

GreenLoreNov 16, 20151 votes

Uhm I'm pretty sure teemo was always a yordle,considering that he is fluffy and all.

Also while everyone talks about how riot supposedly retconned the meglings,I never found any old lore piece about the meglings,despite the fact that the LoL-wiki even kept the beta-lore-entries. So from my perspective it looks like meglings were scrapped before they were even a thing/the megling genocide is just a joke made up by some players....

Sneak DogNov 16, 20151 votes

I'm baffled at myself for finding this... but:

{quoted} Meglings are a crack commando unit in Bandle City. They are not a race of beings. The mention of Meglings as a race back in the day was, and continues to be, a typo.

As for the male/female thing, makes have the "peacock complex"; the male yordle is responsible for attracting the female of the species, hence why the males have a wider variety of skin/fur types. This is why Teemo gets all the ladies OH YEAH~

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=243642&page=2#post2894044

Furor NexisNov 16, 20151 votes

There is a tonne to restructure to be honest. Riot's only beginning to start that process in fleshing out characters. I mean thanks to The Harrowing story event, we found out how the Shadow Isles came to be, and the origins of the characters of Thresh, Kalista, Mordekaiser, Hecarim and Karthus. Before that, no one knew who betrayed Kalista, or why Karthus was so obsessed with death. Shurima was the start of this process, as we learned so much about Nasus, Renekton and Xerath before Azir's reveal.

And let's not get started on Ionia, Zaun, Demacia and Noxus to name a few.

Altho I'd gladly love to take a narrative job in Rito, I'd probably have to move countries considering the only narrative job position is in their NA offices.