What exactly is there to look forward to in League's narrative, lore, or story?

It really seems like Riot deliberately killed off its own lore. Why? I don't know.

It started with the Retcon 1.5 years ago. Institute gone. Summoners gone. Old Runeterra map invalidated. The lead from the infamous devblog post has since left. Since then we've gotten sporadic updates with variable amounts of influence. Bilgewater, Shurima, Targon, Shadow Isles... but it suffers from the same problem of being directly tied to Champ releases/updates. Because of this, it's hard to look forward to something if you have no idea when or if it'll come. There's no overarching plan to see. There's no Journal of Justice to wait for, there's no Meet The series to hype about... just waiting. And waiting.

Even goddamn FFXV got a release date after ten years. Last Guardian is supposedly coming out this year. Persona 5 is within reach.

But narrative? There's no promise of anything down the line. What exactly is there to be excited about?

And this is how the League Lore got killed off.

It's been 1.5 years. A full year and a half since September 2014 when the narrative head stepped up and essentially said 'we can do better'.

They haven't.

Nocturne's lore still mention Summoners and the League, both retconned. Lee Sin has the same. You've got to be kidding me that after 1.5 years you can't update some text that render several champions inconsistent and incompatible with your universe?

This is BASIC stuff. I'm not asking for miracles. I'm literally asking you what is the new background of these champs since you retconned their old ones literally years ago?

Oh wait. Let me guess. Either you can't talk about it because SPOILERS! or it's being saved for some event?

And these goddamn events... all these events that continue to retcon and, worst of all, never follow-up. The Freljord Event was** THREE** years ago and no follow-up has been done on this War of Three Sisters. What's the point of starting these narrative story lines if they never go any where?

Not to mention the vague as hell ruling that anything that doesn't contradict the new lore is still canon.

We still have questions like...

• If the Noxian invasion of Ionia is still canon, why? The old reason was because Noxus invaded since Ionia didn't join the league. So what's the cause now?
• If the Rune Wars are still canon and Rune Magic can destroy the world, why haven't Noxus and Demacia done so? Bard? So is he like IoW-lite?
• Is Noxus still campaigning in Freljord? There's no League to stop its Barbarian Pacification Campaigns.

Then there's the whole map issue. We still don't have a map.

• Where is Bilgewater and the Shadow Isles?
• What's in the center of the Valoran continent?
• Where are all these places that get mentioned like the capital city of Shurima or the fortress of Andras?

The more I look at Riot and how they handle League, their sole game, the more I'm disgusted. But here, in a realm where it's really a matter of generating text based content and updating old texts... they've dropped the ball so hard.

It's like it's amateur hour.

Some suggestions I think would be massively beneficial to retaining, maintaining, and GENERATING lore interest:

• 1.** Some kind of weekly/monthly serial. **This can be a comic, a short story, a quick AMA video on gibberish lore questions drawn with dry-erase art... something CONSISTENT that we, as a fanbase, can look forward to. Something we can consume. This whole month long droughts between updates "most of which are just retcons" is killer to interest.
• 2. A map. A map is incredibly valuable. It tells us where things are. It gives us an idea of what the culture is like and what kind of people live there. It gives us something to anchor our imaginations towards.
• 3. More focus on the culture. What's the point of this universe if we only focus on the heroes or gods or legends of this universe. Things like Rek'Sai's video were fascinating because we got to see something beyond the grim dark world. Ekko's 'Seconds' videos was neat in this regard on attitudes towards death. The point and click background splash for Bilgewater event is cool too. We need more of these things. Otherwise, it's going to be hard to anchor our interest through godlike beings such as .

4. **More variety in personalities from champions. ** is basically a one-note girl. What other sides is she? Is all she is some kind of big-gun strapped to a short-girl military trope? She has no depth.
5. **Inject more humor. ** You'll get way more interest from Champion Comedy Hour than another Amumu music video. Funny stuff is funny. People love to share funny stuff. It shows up on facebook feeds and gets shown again and again. People HATE things like Nasus narration. Who goes back and look at the Shurima videos? Only the most die hard. If you want to generate interest you have to go beyond the grimdark note that's been striking.
6. **Interact with the community. **Silence does not breed a positive outlook. There has to be more than just jumping into conversations where people are riding your metaphorical dicks over splashart or some new event. The boards shouldn't be your safe space or echo chamber or feel-good/upvote machine. It's supposed to be an engine of communication. That's not really happening here... at all.

tl:dr - there's nothing to look forward to in League's narrative, lore, or story.