Journalists from every faction could have just written news about factions and champions without the Institute of war or summoners in mind. Even if some champions are legends and are very unlikely to be seen by commoners, there are a lot of champions who are political figures and criminal figures. And for the mythical champions there could be sightings, survivors, or other champions who could talk about them. Just a thought.
Narasimha3 votesThat... still doesn't solve the main point, which was that not very many people were reading it.
Scarborough Fair4 votesmost people aren't even interested in lore when it comes to games. Lore is only for those who are interested in it.
Narasimha3 votesThat depends entirely on the game. Play a shooter like Call of Duty or Halo, and lore is irrelevant. Play an RPG like Dragon Age or Diablo, and lore is much more prominent. MOBAs tend to be a middle ground. They need enough lore for characters to be (relatively) unique and distinguishable, but theres no drive to push it beyond that. They're not telling a story through the game, the game is just a medium for the story.
Tesla Effect4 votesThat depends entirely on the game. Play a shooter like Call of Duty or Halo, and lore is irrelevant. Play an RPG like Dragon Age or Diablo, and lore is much more prominent. MOBAs tend to be a middle ground. They need enough lore for characters to be (relatively) unique and distinguishable, but theres no drive to push it beyond that. They're not telling a story through the game, the game is just a medium for the story.
And they are free games that only get income from skins and such, which is not enough if you want real lore expansion like WoW has done. They are making a movie for god sakes, that indicates how munch money Blizzard has made with their way of obtaining income. Money drives progresses like lore.
Dextix LT2 votesLook man. Its always easier to retcon something from existance than trying to make it work somehow. Narrative is lazy, so they took the easy way out. They wont care how many ppl will talk about how they want the old lore back before retcon and JOJ back. THey will just keep ignoring us and say "You dont know anything, the new lore is better you just dont understand that".
THey are still on theor god complex power trip.
Tesla Effect1 votesArent they doing that as indicated with Sions lore.
Scarborough Fair5 votesThe Journal of justice was more of a newspaper instead of a one-time proclamation
Valaran Nara1 votesWell, the Journal of Justice worked because they wanted it to look like a conspiracy theory.
Think about it. you get news articles of what is politically going on. The Prince made a first strike when it was unlike him. For some reason, you can see LeBlanc's face in Swain's breastplate as J4's reflection. It was meant for an espionage feel.
It won't workout the same way. And if they did do the JoJ, that's nice and all, but to be honest, it won't give us the lore of individual champions. Just overall Country interactions that may wrap us up in mystery again as opposed to fleshing out individuals.
It works, but it may not pan out like you're thinking.
Scarborough Fair3 votesI wasn't thinking of it as a replacement to the progressive champion lore they have been promising, but as an addition.