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Ok I really need a Red here

Tahm Kruze··3 votes·1,188 views

Ok I am not trying to attack you guys or anything but I really need some explanation here. I don't agree with this new direction of lore or how it is proceeding but its your game and I will accept that. What I am really confused about is is there actually a team dedicated to lore? If so please tell me what they do besides these elementary level paragraphs that are replacing old champion lores each patch. Do they work on the video releases for events like shurima or do they strictly do the writing part. If so please is there anyway they can be improved on? I am a college student and I could write equvilantly long lores in a matter of hours if that. I understand that players that actually care about lore are minuscule in numbers compared to other players but don't we matter too? Even if theses new lores will be expanded on later why not just wait to release them later that way the whole lore system is just this big conglomerate of old and new lore. Any response would be appreciated.

13 Comments

Nucleophilic atk2 votes

There should be a "doesn't matter" option in your poll. For people like me, I would rather them fix the issues with their game than have a good lore that I don't read anyway :). I understand that some people, like you I am assuming, feel strongly about it, but in order to try and encompass a larger portion of the population, the "doesn't matter" really should be there.

Tahm Kruze2 votes

Yeah I realized that I should have added that option a little after I hit post. I get it doesnt matter to some people and thats fine. I just like a little more story than what there new lore currently has.

Sir ArmaMalum1 votes

From what I understand there's a good chunk of lore currently locked out due to a web-client technical difficulty. As in the client page for said champions will link (and probably have embedded) a web-page dedicated to that champion's lore (a bit of speculation there, I'm not a red keep that in mind).

Sauce

Sorry I'm no red but I hope that helps at least a bit.

Tahm Kruze1 votes

Yeah I remember reading that. My thing though is don't only half way change it though. If you have an entire team dedicated to lore than it should be easy to deliver and in-depth story. Even if they are working on a place to post these new longer lores imo they shouldn't have touched the old lores until this new system was completely ready to be put in place.

Nucleophilic atk2 votes

Yeah, I understand why a lot of people are upset about it. Rito has came out and said that it doesn't matter what the people think, though. So, to be honest, I think you are searching for answers that you won't find. It is a change that they wanted. I seen a lot of people against and not really many people sticking up for it, so I think Rito knew that the community didn't want the change in the first place, they just don't care.

Tahm Kruze1 votes

Yeah it just kinda bumms me out that they are basically throwing away what league started on :/

Nucleophilic atk2 votes

Even though I don't much care for lore, I completely agree with you there. What baffles me, is how you can do so many things that the vast majority of your community does't want. Just completely confuses me.

Tahm Kruze1 votes

Yeah I hear ya there. I also wish riot was a little bit better at communicating with the community. Don't get me wrong they have made major leaps forward imo but still they leave things kind of vague sometimes. I almost wish they had a box on the client that was solely dedicated for relaying info that riot post on reddit. I personally never use reddit and i'm sure a lot of players don't either so we wind up missing the red post unless we look at it on Surrender@20. Idk it might be a dumb idea but it just popped in my head.

redniwediS1 votes

Give it time, there is a reason these little bits of lore have not been expanded upon. Either they are keeping things back in order for it to be a surprise when they start telling actual stories, or there are details that are not quite finished yet.

Diahane1 votes

Give it time, there is a reason these little bits of lore have not been expanded upon. Either they are keeping things back in order for it to be a surprise when they start telling actual stories, or there are details that are not quite finished yet.

Official reply to the Shurima's short bios matter is that they are both rewriting some of the long versions because they realized they could have been done better (maybe some of our feedback got through) and waiting for a tech issue to be solved. That is to say, they need to set a new database so as to have the client show the short lores and the website the full ones.

Sharjo1 votes

To answer one of your questions, Riot doesn't technically have a "Lore team", it's their "Narrative team". They're the guys who focus on the actual story, how its told and also the world at large. They don't make everything relating to the lore, the Narrative Team is the one that writes it and provides the direction.

Artists, video makers, sound artists, 3D modelers, web-tech fellows and After Effects guru's or whatever they're called and more are the ones involved in the creation of media relating to the lore. Essentially Narrative writes the champion lore, the scripts for videos, the promo-text for skin releases, and determine the direction of the story as a whole. Other folks aid in the execution. Riot, like every company ever, doesn't have everyone able to do everything. They have teams that collaborate to make things work. Hope that's helpful info, and also, if a Rioter is reading, I hope that's actually accurate, because that's what I know to the best of my knowledge!

Kinjishi1 votes

Well, need to give Riot some time to get things updated lore-wise. :/ Also, seems like they are trying to cultivate some dialog in the forums about lore as well. Think people are too used to having things right away in this fast-paced, fast food society we live in today.

Sure, things could have been handled better. However, you can RP whichever history/lore you want (same with any universe).

Tahm Kruze1 votes

Im not interested in rping anything :P. I just want a stable character story line that I can know and become accustomed too. Like how do you think halo fans would be if in halo 5 the game creators decided to completely circumvent what they did in all the previous halo games just to form a new story. I dont think they would approve of it at all.

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