For those of us who love lore, the sad fact is...

BeatinWarDrumz·Sep 27, 2015·14 votes·1,486 views

Look, I'm a MASSIVE lore hound. In every game i play, I scour youtube, the game's forums, reddit, etc to find out more about lore. Take the souls series - I've played hundreds of hours of it, and maybe even read/watched more about the lore. The story is one of the big reasons why I am playing. In lol though... so few people play for the lore that economically it really isn't a viable strategy for riot to care all that much about it. What they usually do is release themed events and/or comics that have the reason of "cuz lore". I dont fault Riot for this - it's simply true, and it's sad.

14 Comments

Blade of JusticSep 27, 201511 votes

League of Legends isn't League of Legends without the League of Legends

TransgressorSep 27, 20153 votes

I always felt the lore of LoL was an added seasoning on a great pot-roast. It's there to enrich and spice things up, give some actual value to an otherwise 100% shallow game. In addition, most of us spend our time honing our skills and improving our game knowledge. In souls for example, you finish a quest, you get more info about the story. In LoL, you finish a game, if you lose, you try to understand what you did wrong to improve uppon. If you win, you keep trying to increase your rank. None of which, have any connection to story and lore, they are purely for feedback purposes.

Now, given that MOBAs are pretty unimaginative, and LoL's not one of the pioneering MOBAs in the market, it's really weird how they chose to throw everything down the gutter, and rebuilt it from scratch. All the updates are great. And it's good. The thing is, what the fuck do they all have to do with the League of Legends? Why would any of the rebuild characters, cared about it enough to join?

PeriditionSep 27, 20153 votes

I wouldn't say that most people who play games don't care about lore, but that they have a very shallow understanding of it. And they ultimately just want whatever seems cool, continuity be damned. This is true for every move/game franchise in existence.

The problem occurs when creative forsake their own narrative direction to cater to popular opinion.

A great example of this is Blizzard. Half of the shit they produce nowadays makes no sense. Its solely done for the purpose of driving more sales.

UomoAfideSep 28, 20151 votes

coughlords of Draencough

EssilynOct 3, 20151 votes

Like an IV drip to keep World of Warcraft running.

Or a patchwork monster of a horrid story in StarCraft 2 so that there's an hour or two of "singleplayer".

FasmodeySep 27, 20153 votes

Lore is so important for me, if I'm going to main a champion, I really should like its lore, backstory and theme. Ekko is a fun champion, really. I like playing him but no way to main, zero chance.

If they had worked on lore more, lore would be better, no doubt. But we're going to see lore in only events, that's sad.

I really like events, and they should do more if they're not going to update lore excluding events.

GenoXxSep 27, 20152 votes

Dude, I play and main champs based their lore

xFrostKnightxSep 27, 20152 votes

Where have you been? Did you vanish for the gangplank lore event or had closed eyes for character lore?

Riot hired some good writers to re-write/write new lore quite some time ago. For a lore enthusiast you sure are one inpatient person, makes it seem like you just want something to complain about.

TransgressorSep 27, 20155 votes

Oooooooooooor you didn't understand his point at all.

SSJTribeSep 28, 20151 votes

Dude probably just replied to the title without reading the post at all

UomoAfideSep 27, 20158 votes

What he's trying to say is "Most people play LoL just for the sake of playing, and the lore fans are a not so influential minority".

Von RevanchistOct 1, 20151 votes

impatient? no

Starfish HSep 27, 20151 votes

I want more Darius/Garen to understand when I say Garen You scourge of Noxus come here and let me show you a true battle or Darius You puny Demacins will tremble before the might of Noxus I'm referencing the lore instead of "Lel wut"

ImpetualSep 28, 20151 votes

@OP, what you say is true. Across the board, games these days are becoming more and more geared towards casual players.

Casual players don't usually care as much about lore because they're only casually invested in the game and it's world. Those kinds of players don't care about lore.