Based on what has happened over the past few days. People seem to care more about the Artwork, and Naming of champions then the actual lore behind any of it. Like stuff people discuss on end are things completely irrelevant to the lore of the game. Riot sees that as well so they don't work hard on the lore of the game.
It's the E-Sports mentality. "If its not part of (her) kit, I don't need to care."
They aren't making a video game anymore. They're making a sport.
The game doesn't "need" to have any soul as long as this mentality persists.
It comes to the fact that most of the League champions are rather generic archetypes at their core. The Institute of War just bound it all together and made all these otherwise unconnected champions connected.
The reason many champions are popular are pretty much because people play X or like X. The lore behind it is just icing (considering even pre-retcon the lore was scarce for many now pretty popular champs like Ahri but massive amounts of fanart and constant references by Riot to tweak and balance her to keep her relevance in the esports scene shows that).
Sometimes, however, I think the Narrative Department has fallen into a classic fan fiction trap: great idea with all the glitter and spaz and all these wonderful abilities but ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA ON HOW TO TELL A STORY BEHIND IT.
That's probably their greatest failing.
Yep. The fact that more people care about stuff like poros (I mean, come on; they're just cotton balls with tongues, what's with all the swooning and hubbub?) than lore is disappointing, and almost insulting.
well part of that is because no one has faith that riot cares in the slightest anymore.
I honestly think that Riot is doing a good job with lore.
While the written lore has been getting much shorter, the cinematics, the shorts, and the teasers and events tie the champions together and make them a lot more understandable than text which only describes their actions in history.
Then Riot is short sighted.
if you don't do lore in the first place and killed years worth of it in the first place just because people complained there and there, and then they stop caring about the lore since there ISN'T any, and then that misleads Riot to thinking they don't need to.
TL;DR - Riot scraps the journals because some people had no interest (Meanwhile ignores overwhelming requests to nerf LCS champions) and then scraps the entire lore before completely ditching on the new lore.
that's because lore is not THAT relevant :x sadly, You cannot make a game out of lore, at least not a moba since a reading/writing game would require constant story development which doesn't happen in a moba, in LoL characters are static and are not meant to develop in other ways but in gameplay. Riot invest a crazy amount of resources trying to overcome this hurdle, yet everyone hates the narrative team... shame on you.
Also, if the format players interact with lore is "wall of text" than it becomes less relevant because most people just overlook walls of text. That's why Riot is trying to do short lore where the main idea behind a champion is exposed and eventually people become curious about it THEN, when they're eager and hooked up, you give them the long wall of text, plus some fun interactions in-game.
Time will only tell if Riot will be able to get up from this mess or get stomped by better MOBAs that will surely come up and learn fro mRiots mistakes.
