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Riot, please expand your Lore Team

BoxOfDOG··9 votes·875 views

Riot, I understand that you're super focused on the game, it's balance issues, champion design, etc., but the lore is also very important to the community (as you can tell from the nearly every day complaints about it)

When we're not playing the game but still thinking about League, a lot of us are reading the lore that was written.

The lore sucks. I mean honestly, it's kinda super bad. Rammus' lore, to put it as light as I can, is incredibly lazy. I don't want your Soon™ or To Be Continued.. If you're going to release lore release it ALL AT ONCE.

You can hint at new champions and update the lore in a more complete way after they're released.. But a one paragraph "story" about Rammus that is less descriptive than his dialogue in game, is not okay.

Expand your lore team with creative forward thinkers, that can bring life to the lore and make it interesting, engaging, DESCRIPTIVE, (and going with the clarity theme here that you're so big on) NOT VAGUE. We want a story that we can follow and connect.. Not speculate and make educated guesses.

You may argue that you're going with something right now and you wanna see where it goes, but seeing as you already trounced about on top of Skarner's lore and changed it, I'm pretty sure you can do the same with mistakes you've made recently.

Thank you.

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Valaran Nara2 votes

As of right now, their reason for not having the lore out has nothing to do with the team, but tech issues.

If it is tech issues, and the team is still doing their job, then when it is FINALLY fixed, there will be a shitstorm of lore bursting out.

However, here is what will happen.

People who prefer the previous lore over the new lore (that we would have finally received) will complain. Of course.

Then there will be people who thought, "Finally, Rito listened! About time they did as we said," when in actuality, that one minute thread talking about 'Rito Plz' didn't really do much of anything to the overall scheme of things.

there will also be people who sips their tea, say finally, and go on with their day.

At this moment, everybody who puts up a comment about what the lore team should do will most likely get no response. Not because what they say isn't important, but because if it's about retcon, then the topic was discussed to death. If it's about bringing the lore out, then it has been discussed to death. The lore team stopped "communicating" not becasue they don't, but because it's CSR in self defense mode.

If you're suppose to do customer service, and you're dealing with an angry client, you remain calm and be polite. If you tell the customer it is one thing (and you KNOW that it is that), but the client is still irate, what will you do? Fix the problem! Great! But what if the solution is what the client wants? Well, you can't help them. If they continue yelling and arguing, the best you can do is either stay on the phone until they hang up, or apologize about the inconvenience and end the call. If you stay on that phone and ARGUE with them about why you can't do what they're saying, then that IS BAD!

I prefer a silent lore team that is gnawing their nails muttering, "Fuck, come on...work already, damn," then a vocal lore team who communicates by saying, "For the last time, we can't. We already have a shit-ton of stuff, but the stupid client/server/etc. is not working right."

Tesla Effect1 votes

Yep.

I suggest the regulars, and those that would like to, band up and first discuss about the actual problems they would address to Riot (I mean really discuss about it, and preferably not on the threads, but make a special social group, think about it carefully, formulate your collective ideas, then post on the boards). Right now, they are all disorganized, spammy, sometimes pathetic and rude with their approaches, asking questions that were already answered or demanding solutions that Riot stated that they wont go with.

Of course, I would always say be patient, cause you and I dont know the behind the scenes of lore development, so accusing them of not working on the lore at this point is just speculation (but as someone has stated which I agree with, we can just let this silence go like this, but not spam threads about it). And may I also say that just because something looks unfinished, doesnt mean that it will stay unfinished. And just because something that was stated a while ago, doesnt mean its scrapped ( I mean the number of people asking about where is Ao Shin, Taric rework where, where Skarners lore, are just astronomical, they just dont get the way development works which just adds to the problem).

Making complaints wont help anyone and it certainly wont help in this matter. Rather you need to be organized with your approach, be polite, ask the right questions, and be prepared if they dont answer you right of the back. Thats life and part of growing up, not everything will go your way.

Should you fans be silent all the time, no, not really. But if they are willing to not spoil anything or if they have nothing to say that wasnt already said, then you should at least respect that and be patient (or not, just dont spam everyday of the week, month, year. And remember, band up and make an organized approach).

Chromatic Eagle1 votes

They are expanding their team, it's just painfully slow.

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