I think we have Jaredan's "claim to fame" set in concrete now...

TerraRising··5 votes·986 views

Those who are known to be in charge of the Narrative department at Riot Games are best remembered not for any positive contributions to the overall story, but for the biggest disasters that stem from their tenure in the company.

  • Kitae, for instance, was responsible for the removal of the Journal of Justice, League Judgments and the Freljord disaster.
  • TommyGnox was the man behind the Great Retcon announcement and disaster as well as the removal of the summoner from the game.

However, Jaredan, Riot's Senior Narrative Editor and de facto head of the department, should forever be remembered as the one who destroyed the hardcore League Lore fan.

Simply put, Jaredan is the driving force behind pushing away hardcore lore fans, taking us completely out of the process. Unlike other Riot personnel and departments that actively encourage fan participation, Jaredan as said that he doesn't want people giving him story ideas, citing personal and unspecified legal reasons for this policy. Jaredan also has not attempted to clarify what he does want from fans who want to contribute, further pushing us out of the process and away from his precious "pride as a creative writer."

Jaredan also continues the tradition from Narrative to not say anything to lore fans, treating us with silence rather than communication and further alienating us from the story we hold dear.

And while the team has several avenues to release stories while waiting for unspecified tech issues, Jaredan and the rest of the company refuse to release content while wait for these problems to work themselves out. Instead, they wait and do work behind the scenes and not

It's at the point where even other Rioters from other departments are saying that we have every right to be upset at them for not delivering on this stuff.

So, yes, I would suggest that Jaredan should be known for destroying the hardcore lore fan and pushing us away from an active role into a passive and reactive one. Unless someone has a better suggestion, that is.

13 Comments

Sharjo10 votes

Jesus wept. So we're down to just plain demonizing narrative's named members at this point? We've evolved from having enraged but somewhat reasonable discussion to a bunch of hateful arses with pitchforks and torches? Great. Fantastic.

Also what the hell is this thread supposed to do? Vent your frustrations? Start a debate? Do anything?

...I don't even know.

GenoXx1 votes

Tell me sharjo, How much has the Narrative team(If they have one) has evolved over the years??

IcyPepper3 votes

Does it matter? What does your question have to do with anything he said? Riot hasn't made threads openly raging at us because of our lack of content creation.

Nothing excuses being complete arses. Trying to give a reason for it is an excuse. If we keep raging, blaming, pointing fingers and trying to defame people, it's not going to motivate Riot to give us anything. It just makes the situation worse.

GenoXx1 votes

Nothing excuses telling the community you have lots t show us, then prolong a fabled tech issue. Nothing excuses the lack of communication. If he cant answer my question you can't either

IcyPepper2 votes

Would you prefer the situation getting worse and being part of the reason, or chilling out and letting Riot deal with it?

Business, storytelling, and yes even PR is more complicated than we all think. For all we know, the Reds are forced to keep silent on the matter, whatever it may be. At least they aren't being asses over it.

GenoXx1 votes

No, the only way it will get better is if Riot actually start listening to the community and actually do something about it. It's their fault the community got like this.

Now all of a sudden they don't even want to say a word, because of guilt. And now they are just feeling like nothing is goign to fix something.

If people started to quiet down and leave tis part of the bords entirely to Arts, No rioter is going to attempt to do anything about it. This jaredan guy gives these un realistic excuses such as a tech issue thats taking nearly 7 months to figure out. Right this "tech issue"

So why would they make a post talking about who we want to hear about??/ This means they havent wrote anything and is still figuring out wth to do. Meanwhile, they come every blue moon with another lame excuse. It's getting old.

Maybe no one should talk about anything else lore related for a whole 6 months. See where that goes. Oh! I know! Exactly how they want it

Sharjo1 votes

Mr. Tombdragon, you shouldn't waste your time. Pretty sure anything you have to say is lost on this fellow.

Sharjo1 votes

Evolved how? You're really vague with your question there. Elaborate if you'd be so kind.

GenoXx1 votes

well you say the community has evovled into an angry mob. But i want to hear from ur perspective how narrative has grown.

Sharjo2 votes

From what I've seen narrative has grown to be way more involved with other teams at Riot, hence why we've had content in the manner we've had. Narrative didn't make those videos and sites and art on their own, it was a collective effort by Riot, whereas before such things didn't appear exist in the same capacity.

Not sure why this is relevant to what I said though.

Tesla Effect3 votes

You are supposed to delete hate mail once you written it all, not post it on the message boards!

Silly, billy.

GenoXx1 votes

I don't think its going to matter Terra. League's lore is declining steadily to nothing and Riot shows that they don't care. Not even this supposed Narrative team. Their only excuse for lack of communication is not wanting knowing how to respond to constructive threads. Really sounds like some bull shit to me.

And will only make lore on champion release. Which as of now, will just be only champion bios, seeing how bard did not get a story follow up. So we can expect the next champs to come out with just their bios.

Jaredan makes it seem like he wants to do something, and it's not even that. If he's some sort of Chief for this supposed Narrative team, he and the others are getting paid for nothing. Like seriously, wtf are they even getting paid for???

Tesla Effect1 votes

As if the community knows whats best for the narrative. They did not create the characters, Riot did.

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