Tired of one paragraph lores

Aryan Coconut·1/31/2016, 5:38:07 AM·3 votes·736 views

I've noticed over the past year that, due to lore updates, many champions are losing their 4-8 paragraph lore pages and instead have a small single paragraph (and maybe a quote either by or about them). Now this would be understandable if the champion wasn't released, or if they were central to the plot of an ongoing event that is writing the lore that should be in the page, but the Shurima event has come and gone and Nasus still has a truly captivating 3 lines of text in his lore section on the client. I feel like this is a Destiny style mistake in storytelling that could be fairly easily fixed (for those who don't know, Destiny has all of its story on an app and website the you can not view in-game. This leaves the player to go through all the effort of learning all about the story Bungie should've been explaining throughout the game, or, more often, not knowing anything about the story). There is plenty of lore that was released in the Shurima event for most of those champions to have gotten at least 3-4 paragraphs of material for their lore page. All the information already exists on the web, both in videos and in articles, waiting for a Riot member to ctrl+c ctrl+v it into the client and call it a day. I would love for a little more effort than that to be put into it than that, but I feel like this is the bare minimum amount of effort a game designer should put their game. I know it isn't exactly the biggest issue you guys have to deal with right now (Looking at you, Graves , you unbalanced, any lane, any role, highest win rate piece of...) but I feel like Riot would rather have players on the client looking for lore rather than on some fan-made, third-party wiki, and this would take a dozen or so man-hours to fix for the champions it applies to, and would set an easy to follow set of guidelines so we never suffer the disappointment that is a lore section without any lore.

Sincerely, The Majestic Eagle, Aryan Coconut

3 Comments

Ralanr1/31/2016, 6:02:38 AM5 votes

Why don't you put a little more effort in finding the lore by going on the main site?

GreenLore1/31/2016, 10:41:50 AM1 votes

All champs who played a role in the bilgewater event,most shadow isles champs and all the champs that were release/reworked after the bilgewater event have full lores on the main page. The shurima lores are also going to be added to the main page,but since the standards for the full lores were raised last year,they want to update the prepared shurima lores to the current standard before putting them on the main page(though xerath and azir got their short stories already on the main page,because those were used to test the new tech on the site)