Riot approach to Lore transition
Some feedback about how the Lore management is seen from the playebase and a small suggestion.
Riot, is really annoying to see the Lore of champions being shortened up without any notice in advance, it happened with Shurima champions before and now with the Shadow Islands ones. Add to this that it has been a long while without any update on said stories.
Now, this is understandable when we are talking about incoming/new characters, because we don't know much about them since the begin and any new bit of information is exciting and theorycraft-worthy.
But when it's about characters that we have been playing for months or even years it's a different story! It looks to us that you are telling us: "Screw your view on X champ or what you loved about him. We are leaving them in an oblivion of might happen unless we feel like making something that isn't assured to keep the feeling of the original champion".
What would be a good and... democratic (?) way to undergo these changes is to either:
- Give a sneak in advanace on which champions are going to be affected by the next Lore change so that it doesn't come out of the blue and you may collect feedback on what the community is expecting from X champion and which are the main themes that must be preserved (as you did with Xerath after the ragefalls).
- Do not change the actual Lore of them in the short 3 lines before you have ready the longer ones so that we can expect a full story to be released a week later.
Immersion (at least for me and other Lore-fans) plays a big role into which champion we are playing, and having it be removed totally by this 3-lines sneaks feels like we are playing with an amorph plasticine.