Riot won't ever change Varus because of the Music Video
So as you could tell, there are A LOT of people who are not happy with the new story of Varus. I'm not getting into my reasoning, I have a thread open for it already if you want to read why I am upset about it.
Now, just by scrolling through the boards, all that everyone has been talking about is Varus and how upset people are about it. Here is the saddest part about this though.
The music video. (not its quality, it was a great looking video)
Making these types of videos are expensive and take a long time to do. So now that they are invested in this expensive video, they HAVE to stand behind it. They can't just say "Hey guys we messed up, we took your thoughts into consideration and will rewrite his story." NOPE. NEVER GONNA HAPPEN.
They invested WAAAY too many resources in a story that they didn't even test out! They were just like "yea here you go, hope for the best." So they are going to do whatever they can to try and redeem it. To try and lie to us and THEMSELVES by saying "Hey! twitter likes it! we understand that you guys don't like it but there are so many people to please! It's hard to please everyone so please understand." Riot will deflect answers, and beat around the bush but they will not change a single WORD to his lore. They will defend it and say "we understand your criticism" and will do NOTHING about it. They are not going to fix their Ret con, they are going to leave it as is and say their famous production line, "we have other pressing matters so we will revisit Varus at another time." which will probably be in 6 years.
So strap in and get used to this new Varus that no one asked for. Cause Riot is NOT touching his story for a long time.
Wanna get an idea of how much they spent on this video? Lets do a little break down shall we!
This is an estimate and my numbers are waaay off but here is my way of thinking.
Here is an example. Rhaast has an interaction with Varus, he mentions that Varus is a darkin, here is the link to the proof
https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/xAhvK4rp-holy-crapit-all-makes-sense-now
Kayn was released on July 12th 2017, I was reading that a champion can take anywhere from 3 months of development to up to a year. So let's be kind and say that Kayn took 3 months (I doubt it but for fun lets go with 3) and he was released 4 months ago (rounding down)
So, if they had started writing his lines half way through his production, that means this video has been in the works around the time Kayn was in production (atleast). But again, for fun, let's say when they started writing Rhaast's lines is when they started on this video. That would equal to about 6 months of work.
NOW! Lucky for you I work at an animation studio! So if you had a bare bones crew working on this you would have 1 director, 1 story board artist, 3 animators, 3 compositors, 1 modeler and rigger, and of course an editor to make the leica (or reference) reel. That's 10 people working on one project for 6 months. Now let's say they make, an average of $35,000 a year. Simple math, $35,000 x 10 then divide the total by 2.
That's $175,000.
THAT's BEFORE the song/music!
So yea, Riot is not going to be like "Hey guys! Look at our $175,000 mistake! We are just gonna toss it now and redo the story" Nope. They are standing by it because they HAVE to.
