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@Riot, The Lore Retcon Is Painful, And It's Taking Too Long, Finish it Already!

Impetual·8/24/2015, 8:52:37 AM·25 votes·8,773 views

Have you ever heard the phrase regarding the ripping off of a bandaid?

It should be done quickly and completely in one quick shot.

The lore retcon, assuming it needed to happen in the first place, should have been done the same way.

It's been almost a year, and many champion's lore still exist in a pre-retconned world. Jax for example.

@Riot I enjoy and love your game, but your managers must have some serious issues setting deadlines for lore or something because they don't seem to be doing their job.

We've seen RIot develop lore at a much faster rate than it has in the past year, and while we've had the odd really cool event (Bilgewater) it hasn't seemed like we've gotten any consistent lore releases happening like we used too.

Lore releases happen at a snails pace these days, and never actually seem to have any global significance to Runeterra.

Heck Riot, you guys haven't even finished the retcon, which I would think would have been your number 1 priority for the last year!

What's taking so long Riot?!

40 Comments

Krinu8/24/2015, 6:40:28 PM11 votes

Speaking as a writer... doing this stuff well takes time.

Quite a bit of it, actually. It's also not something that you can just "throw more people at" in order to make it go faster, because everybody needs to be... aheh... on the same page. The more people you have writing on a group project, the less each person adds due to the increased communication overhead between writers.

I'd rather have a well-designed, cohesive world than a bunch of one-off tales that don't seem to relate to each other in any meaningful way. Plotting something like that out takes a lot of work and a lot of time, especially if it's done right.

SEKAI8/24/2015, 10:11:37 AM7 votes

Let's just pretend the recton never happened?

It's not like it's gonna make any difference considering we have barely got anything since the reset anyway. Even the main map is still to this day, called Summoner's Rift.

GenoXx8/24/2015, 5:39:02 PM5 votes

Well impetual, it looks like they're hiding again til next champ teaser or release in October

Decrit8/24/2015, 8:21:33 PM3 votes

Have you ever heard of ripping off of an arm

GP heard it a while ago...

Tesla Effect9/15/2015, 5:36:12 AM2 votes

New champion is coming out after PAX, thats your lore discussion right there. Anything else you have to wait, like seriously can we talk with the devs about lore at the time between lore releases. Can we not treat lore release as an event, rather a natural update that happens frequently to not even call it an event anymore?

TurquoiseYoshi8/24/2015, 5:30:12 PM2 votes

Look at Lee Sin's lore. Almost as weird as Jax's. I actually hope they keep the original lore somewhere, just so we can see what used to be canon. I had a fun time a few weeks ago reading up on a ton of lore and finding things that shouldn't exist anymore, but are just so charmingly unreal that I kinda hope they stay.

Kadavik8/24/2015, 9:16:15 PM2 votes

A while ago I asked Jaredan about weather we could get to see the Champion short stories (stories narrative wrote for the champion design team to get the devs grounded on the champs personality) any time soon. He responded:

{quoted}

I was speaking with Loping Cinder about this today, I'll get back to you on it.

That was more than a week ago and I haven't heard from him since. I know he's a busy guy so I don't blame him. What do you guy think is the hold up?

Dreamspitter8/24/2015, 10:07:23 AM2 votes

{quoted}

Have you ever heard the phrase regarding the ripping off of a bandaid?

It should be done quickly and completely in one quick shot.

I never do it that way. I always peel it off SLOOOWLY.

Anyway, he have like 22-25 champions that need visual updates, and then more that even if visually ok -they still mention the League in the lore so they will have to get updates just to the writing.

Desiderium8/29/2015, 11:45:21 AM1 votes

The whole point of the retcon is so lore can evolve over time and be combined with story-related events. They're not going to "fix" everyone's lore immediately, because you don't have to fix what isn't broken. Everyone will get their spotlight in time.