@Meddler, Reav3s & Other - Karma's Entire Timeline (Theme & Art)
2013 -
> "Why did you change Karma’s look and costume? > > Karma’s original look had a few shortcomings that we’d like to address for her relaunch. For starters, her aesthetic was hard to read and didn’t really convey much about her character. Her fans, dress and posture didn’t reflect her playstyle or storyline. There was a lot we could change about Karma to bring a more cohesive vision to the character.
> "Hey Guys, just to chime in on the fan conversation and to give some insight. > > We got rid of the fans because they did not reflect who we wanted Karma to be going forward. The lore team really wanted to make Her the paragon of Ionia. The fans were not cutting it as a source of readable power in game either. So we iterated on the Ionian standard, the two swirling dragons. We played with the idea that She harnesses Her spiritual energy and uses the Two Ionian Jade Dragons as a conduit for her Mantra. After the particle team got hold of that idea, they made something that was much more impactful and holistic than the two fans. We feel it's a much stronger idea."
> What were we looking to improve with Karma?
> The connection between Karma’s motif and playstyle was never as clear as it could have been. She didn’t have a distinct theme that tied everything together and brought out the badass spiritual leader she is in her lore.
> Ionia is a land that has suffered greatly. The ongoing struggle has taken its toll on Karma's calm, composed demeanor. We wanted to evolve Karma's personality to suit her place in a nation filled with internal strife and awakened ferocity.
This was 5 years ago. People are going to complain and downvote this thread. New players are going to tell Karma mains to move on and accept the fact that Riot Games doesn't care anymore and we just need to accept the fact that having everything taken away from your favorite champion, is acceptable when it comes to Riot Game Developers.
Let me repeat that it has been almost 5 years now and there have been Developers leaving and new ones joining. I blame Riot Games for this. I don't care what Developer is at fault and who is to blame. It is Riot Games fault and as usual no one seems to care, no one seems to want to talk about it, no one seems to want to do actual work to rectify mistakes, and Developers continue to take things away from her already poorly conceptualized theme and art.
Five years ago Karma lost her fans, dress, battle-mage play-style, duchess title, and much of her theme. Karma then lost her shield bomb which turned her into a generic support champion with a kit that doesn't match anything they wanted to do with her. What was given to Karma is a disgusting excuse of a work ethic that every single Developer continues to say is amazing. In reality Karma is left with a twin dragon theme that is nowhere in her art or theme and is poorly conceptualized, but they thought it was better than her fans the Karma community loved. In reality Karma is left with a loin cloth skin that doesn't really give the Developers any options skin and art wise to give us amazing content, because it is the same loincloth looking skin but a different color and maybe with heavy armor. In reality Karma still have no amazing VO, character interactions with other champions, shield casting and running animation.
Instead Karma had every single character element the community loved on her put on a new champion and promised to be put on a new champion. Karma's fans will probably go to another champion. Karma's dress will probably go to a new champion. Karma's shield bomb has already gone to Ivern. Karma's lore that was changed recently and made her a Avatar the Last Airbender character knock off, took away any last remnant of Karma and is going to be most likely put on Irelia.
Explain to me what this current Development team is going to do to rectify mistakes that the same Development team 5 years ago and since 5 years ago, have refused to do? If you are not willing to give this champion back what the real community liked on her, why are you working on her then? It's going to be the same work ethic of you taking something away on Karma and replacing it with something that does absolutely nothing. Bring back Karma's fans, dress, title of Duchess, shield bomb, . . . . . anything. Right now you have a poor work ethic on a champion that Meddler and other Developers continue to ignore for stupid comments like "Ezreal deserves a VGU before Karma." and 4 Ryze VGU/reworks.
I don't expect a Developer to respond. I don't respect new players to care about my passion and dedication to a champion that I have liked for close to five years now. I don't expect anything because the Developers say they read all of these threads, but they create and respond to threads talking about the same champions and champions they find more popular. Stop trying to make yourselves look as if you care about all of your community. You don't.
