@Riot, Did You Actually Have A Plan For How This Lore Retcon Would Work? Doesn't Seem Like It.
As much as I dislike the idea of the lore retcon being done at all...I gotta admit, it's really being done badly. Rather than being done quick and neatly, it's being dragged out over months and years. It's starting to seem like Riot doesn't know what it's doing with it's lore anymore... but to be fair, it's been years since it did.
edit: "Just to put my comments in context, I'm a really big fan of how Riot was in the early days. I remember the stuff they did during season 1 and 2 and think that they had an amazing mindset towards developing LoL and treating its playerbase with respect....It's just that, I feel like they've lost focus on the things that they used to do, like the community and lore related things that I believe helped LoL surpass many of the other MOBA games. I wish they'd go back to their roots.
As an example: Has LoL ever had players have a battle as significant as the Noxus vs. Ionia?
My worry is that Riot is seeing LoL's success in the MOBA world, and assuming that it will continue to dominate it, despite the lack of support for the out of game stuff we used to get, which I believe helped make the game such a success."
I mean seriously, when third party sites are making fan-fiction that is way better than your lore, you know you got problems. (shout out to league factions, keep up the good work guys, you're doing a better job than the narrative team! (from a player perspective))
How long has it been since the lore retcon? And How long are we still waiting for the re-written champion bios? We still don't know what Jax's deal was. Seriously, this kinda stuff is months overdue, if not years.
Seriously Riot, it feels like you never had a plan and don't know what you're doing.
If you decide to retcon the lore, be ready to retcon it....don't leave us in this weird space where we don't know what is and isn't cannon.
P.S. The retcon was a silly idea that you should reconsider. Undoing the lore retcon would probably benefit LoL in the longterm, despite the hate you'd get for changing your decision this late in the game....at least in my opinion.
It may not be too late to fix Runeterra's lore...