Riot, you really need to take a second look at Gangplank's lore page.

Sir Potato·8/18/2015, 3:41:44 PM·5 votes·1,327 views

I'm not the type to usually be outright negative like this. In fact it's quite the opposite; while everyone is complaining about Riot taking their sweet time with the new lore and shortening champion's lore pages, I'm sitting in the back being patient... But this was bad enough to make me speak up.

First off, whoever wrote it didn't even spell "don't" correctly. Secondly, it goes right from talking from first person into a narrative about him without quotation marks or anything. It would make more sense if that first bit was in quotation marks before the new paragraph, but right now it's just one big messy paragraph of jumbled perspectives. This is very unprofessional and it honestly makes your quality control look terrible.

Here's what it looks like in-game:

I was cutting throats and sinking Noxian war galleys when you were still pissing your britches, boy. You dont want to take me on. As unpredictable as he is brutal, the dethroned reaver king known as Gangplank is feared far and wide. Where he goes, death and ruin follow, and such is his infamy and reputation that the merest sight of his black sails on the horizon causes panic among even the hardiest crew.

The website version, which is presumably the correct version:

’’I was cutting throats and sinking Noxian war galleys when you were still pissing your britches, boy. You don’t want to take me on.’’ As unpredictable as he is brutal, the dethroned reaver king known as Gangplank is feared far and wide. Where he goes, death and ruin follow, and such is his infamy and reputation that the merest sight of his black sails on the horizon causes panic among even the hardiest crew.

How it should be written on both:

’’I was cutting throats and sinking Noxian war galleys when you were still pissing your britches, boy. You don’t want to take me on.’’

As unpredictable as he is brutal, the dethroned reaver king known as Gangplank is feared far and wide. Where he goes, death and ruin follow, and such is his infamy and reputation that the merest sight of his black sails on the horizon causes panic among even the hardiest crew.

I love you guys and I'm not trying to be a negative nancy or anything, but when I see my main champion handled so messily I have to speak up. All I ask is that you fix this error when you can. Thank you.

3 Comments

Impetual8/19/2015, 7:05:39 AM2 votes

I've gotta agree with you OP.

I don't like most of the retconned lore, but I did like the Bilgewater event.

That being said, there's a serious problem if RIot's writers don't know how to properly frame things within their lore releases.

Switching up from a first person perspective to a third hand perspective with no interlude feels pretty lazy. Not to mention the grammar errors come across as pretty unprofessional...Does even Riot have people who edit/monitor content before it is released to catch this kind of thing?

BlkGolem8/18/2015, 5:25:55 PM1 votes

Now look at Skarner's sad ingame "lore."

Sir Potato8/21/2015, 5:13:35 PM1 votes

Welp, they fixed it pretty quick. Good on them.