I really am wondering about this because of how far back the lore for it has been delayed. I mean the Shurima event was more than a month ago and the major lores for it are only coming out now.
Also if the ultimate skin does turn out to be connected with this why then would it not have come out when the event was happening?
So Riot was the Shurima event rushed out before everything could be completed, and if so why?
Dotintheparadox6 votesSimple, the lore team is incompetent as a whole, they show nothing but blatant disregard to an actually respectable part of the LoL community, they present a story with amazing visuals, but overwhelming plot holes, they have little to no actual communication with anybody, and they show a complete lack of respect to the original lore writers, and characters by overwriting every single thing they tried setting up with one thing, a poorly reasoned retcon.
This is just blatant idiocy on their part, and I don't care if I insult them anymore, because they honestly deserve it. They are nothing more than sneaky, terrible people by this point, and I cannot possibly fathom at all why they were even hired for this lore.
Earl Eulrich2 votesThough I upvoteded you I want to make clear it´s for the more general massage, I wouldn´t want to insult anyone - despite productive criticisms seems to be hitting a wall there (thus i can really relate to the frustration).
Dotintheparadox4 votesI was actually providing constructive criticism at the beginning, so were several others, but so far it has been met with nothing but unchanging stances, silence, or jokes. They don't give us any prevalent info, I don't even want to know about future lore developments by this point, I just want to actually know the people, it is as if they have no leader, at all, and they don't release their writing credits. I have not seen any of them give a single response that actually explains anything.
It doesn't matter what I say, ever, because they just won't care about any of it, even if it is right.
The Red Warden4 votesWait until they create another thread about how they are listening and that actual stories are coming SOON(tm) but it is impossible to release them now
Dotintheparadox2 votesThey need someone who's job it is to actually communicate their ideas effectively, they seem to lack internal conversation as well, which is the worst thing.
The Red Warden1 votesThere was a Rioter in the past who posted about how almost every single department at riot has bad management
Dotintheparadox1 votesYeah... I'm sad now.
Diahane5 votesThey had tech issues, sure, nonetheless the Shurima event was rushed. A month has passed and we have only the Azir's and Xerath's stories and nothing for the other retconned champions. It's pretty accepted that they managed all badly from a timeline and release date point of view. The release of the two said stories is a big step forward, but still they took a month for them and it looks a very disproportionate time for those stories to be baked.
GreenLore4 votesThe thing is that the lore team got confronted with an unexpected technical issue that the main page drew its lores from the same source as the ingame client,but they want the short lores in the client.
Aside from that they said that they took our criticism into consideration and adjust the stories they've prepared.
Starlighte8 votesThe thing is that the lore team got confronted with an unexpected technical issue that the main page drew its lores from the same source as the ingame client,but they want the short lores in the client.
Aside from that they said that they took our criticism into consideration and adjust the stories they've prepared.
Meanwhile they go along with the entire retcon which the community was overwhelmingly against... "Listening(TM)" the new soon(TM).
Earl Eulrich4 votesYea, it certainly feels that way. Guess they wanted to get it out as fast as possible after killing the whole lore beforehand, as sort of diversion or breadcrumbs or whatever.