So Riot...you will only create a new map if it's beneficial to a skinline?

GenoXx·May 9, 2017·3 votes·881 views

Not for creativity, and showing some of the world of Runeterra?

16 Comments

d1v1ne beastMay 9, 20175 votes

You seem to have forgotten about the Butcher’s Bridge and the Bilgewater event.

MistroTTCMay 9, 20171 votes

That had skins and a champion rework tied to it, if anything it deserved a new map more.

GenoXxMay 9, 20172 votes

is it permanent

SharjoMay 9, 20176 votes

Is the dark star mode permanent?

GenoXxMay 9, 20171 votes

No.....that's my whole argument. The darsktar map is made to promote the skin line.(you may attempt to argue it isnt) But, they wont do a map like SR or similar to it with another location of runeterror...

SharjoMay 9, 20172 votes

~~Beneficial to a skinline? No map has ever been released with a skin line. Like ever. ~~

~~Maps will probably always be used to show more of Runeterra in a way that reveals stuff about not only geography, but culture and narrative about the people who made/use the map.~~

Forget me I fucked this sorry Genocider.

TheHappyReaperzMay 9, 20171 votes

I think the OP is referring to the map made for the Dark Star game mode, but even that was made, not for a skin line, but for a game mode.

SharjoMay 9, 20171 votes

Oh ok, sorry I totally flubbed this.

GenoXxMay 9, 20171 votes

Well, all im saying is, they havent made a new permanent map since forever....but the work for this darkstar map is pretty good. But it's made for marketing purposes...

Would be cool if we had another map for some location on runeterra, but it wont happen

FairyfleurMay 10, 20172 votes

There was the Bildgewater event.

GenoXxMay 10, 20171 votes

.......

TseisonMay 9, 20172 votes

Yeah they should bring back Butcher's Bridge and make it permanent but they already stated that they wouldn't because you know...the games focus is only on "Summoners Rift" and they don't like variety or want to steer people away from that. rolls eyes

Arcus DiabolusMay 9, 20171 votes

We need more maps period. Just different takes on summoner's rift or at least different maps for different gametypes.

So far we have Shurima (Technically, at this point), Freljord, the Shadow Isles and that one never seen again Bilgewater ARAM map. Possible new locations could be Ionia, Piltover/Zaun, Noxus, Demacia, and Mount Targon.

A map set inside a city would be awesome, with the jungle being the dark alleys and back streets. Maybe in Piltover/Zaun with the blue side being Piltover and the red side being Zaun? Perhaps with a none overlapping vertical aspect to it?

GenoXxMay 10, 20171 votes

Personally, I'd love a piltover Zaun map. Maybe around the boundaries markets for different sides

Melancholy ExileMay 12, 20171 votes

The problem with creating new maps, and they've been over this on many occasions before, is that it takes a hell of a lot of work. As recently as May of last year Riot put out an article where said that they didn't even think that a project like remaking the Snowdown version of Summoners Rift could be justified against the sheer amount of time and investment of resources it would take them to put together, and that map skin only got made at all because they found a shortcut that allowed them to put it together in a matter of weeks rather than "the better part of a year." Making a new map is a huge investment that takes up the focus of art and development teams that could otherwise be working on any number of other projects. It's not just something they can do casually for the sake of it.

GenoXxMay 13, 20171 votes

I wonder how much work was put into the recent new map. If it is that hard indeed, this map should have by all means taken some time. Which i can understand. But, if they can make maps like that, whats stoping them form making a new permanent map?