Seriously, if you're trying too hard to make all the bios look flashy, we'll settle for some text-only htmls. Anything's better than what you're giving us: a big fat NOTHING.
The problem concerns the text due to the system by which it's published and how it fits with the process for localization across regions. We're looking to do a test run on the system this week by publishing the Azir and Xerath stories. They're not examples of the new bio format, but it's just a way to get any kinks out of the new tools we're using.
10 months probably isn't text issues. I imagine they're probably going through extensive fine tuning on lore for consistency and probably to ensure it's a huge blowout when they update the lore so people go 'ooooo so dis is wat they've been doing!'
That's stupid, but I imagine that's seems to me the only plausible reason why they're holding out so long. Narrative seems pretty dedicated to not just divorcing gameplay and lore - but shifting bios off client and removing almost any sort of indication of text/reading just off the game itself.
Personally I feel the issue isn't text or fine-tuning but rather structural and hierarchical:
Are there other longer lores ready for this implementation after the test with Azir and Xeraths is done and successful?
They should just put a link to the story stuff they've been doing.
I'm more interested in basic core setting details than expanded character bios really.
Y'know, stuff like how does the setting still exist, why wasn't it blown up in the next rune war?
Basic stuff.
Yah, we've never needed any videos, comics, etc. Just straight up text to give us something.
They did with the Azir and Xerath bio's, and I assume they simply didn't find it successful enough to merit doing it that way. It makes sense to deliver the whole package instead of pieces of it, after all.
