@Riot, Your New Lore Direction Feels Really Dumbed Down

Impetual··14 votes·901 views

The recent lore just seems to lack the complexity that lore used to have.

There no longer seems to be much/any political intrigue between factions and champion backstories just keep getting simpler and simpler. Some of them don't even seem to be back stories, but rather just a quick glimpse of who a champion is, with little to no detail.

Here's Amumu's current lore taken from the League of Legends Website:

"Amumu is a diminutive, animated cadaver who wanders the world, trying to discover his true identity. He rose from an ancient Shuriman tomb bound in corpse wrappings with no knowledge of his past, consumed with an uncontrollable sadness."

I understand that there is a mysterious tech-issue that is taking many months to solve, but why isn't the longer lore being left on the website and client until it is resolved?

Why leave us with the abridged lore when you can leave us with the complete lore?

It just makes it harder for players who want to learn about these champions.

And really, if a player is going to take the time to click on the lore option for a champion, they're probably interested in them enough to read the whole thing.

7 Comments

SheikaRei5 votes

This is a good question and I would like to know as well.

Sneak Dog3 votes

They're busy rewriting the lore. The longer lores simply aren't all done yet.

GenoXx7 votes

No they're not. Their recent activity suggest that they are simply trying to find out what should they even write about. And it's sad.

Sneak Dog1 votes

Or that. Can't be exactly certain. However, my point was mainly that there aren't many longer lores to put up.

Impetual2 votes

Which is a failing on their part.

If they are going to retcon most of Runeterra's lore, they have to realize that that lore needs to be replaced.

Impetual2 votes

Shouldn't they have had the re-writing done before announcing the retcon?

Why announce a retcon, if you don't have a sufficient amount of lore to support it?

Riot clearly didn't have enough new lore to replace the old, as many champions months after the retcon still have lore tied to the institute of War. (Jax, among others)

Sneak Dog1 votes

Riot could've not announced the retcon yet. They could've kept silent for another 18 months longer than they did. However, the community already started realising that the IoW was slowly being written out.

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