Love how the Varus Story Change was Swept Under the carpet

CanadianGuyEh·5/31/2018, 7:49:37 PM·7 votes·1,949 views

Yup. Im bringing this back up.

Don't you just love it when riot says “We'll address this later” but in reality they just hope that certain issues will just be forgotten or swept away?

That was the Varus story change issue.

Many had spoken, many had expressed their thoughts and feelings, and all we got was a big shrug and was pretty much told “Well, we can't change it now, too bad.”

I had made a few threads talking about this and only @dyquill came out to do damage control. No one else.

See, when the PBE story was leaked people were not happy, but riot did nothing even though they got negative feedback, want to know why?

The cinematic and song.

See, if the cinematic and song was not made, they could have reverted the changes. But they had to stick to their guns cause the money has already been spent and they jumped head first into this project without testing the waters first. So all they could do was damage control and just wait till people stopped complaining about it.

Months later, I look back at the story, thinking that perhaps I should give it a second chance.

Nope. The story is still terrible.

Now before you think i'm a sexist, racist, bigoted, homophobe who hates the poor, here are my previous threads explaining why I think the story is inferior to the original

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/AynzcA3s-as-a-husband-changing-varuss-story-has-broken-my-heart-open-letter-to-riot

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/Webxe5fE-riot-wont-ever-change-varus-because-of-the-music-video

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/Jumtus1c-varus-being-changed-to-gay-feels-wrong-for-his-character

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/WJKTWhlI-riot-dyquill-answers-on-varus-what-are-your-plans

I was not the ONLY person who was passionate on this issue. But MANY people were, simply look at the comments and up votes on the previous threads, you can't tell me there was no conflict.

But hey, who cares what we think right? Actions speak ALOT louder then words. Saying “we hear you and understand you, we will address this later” then you do nothing speaks volumes.

5 Comments

RookPusher5/31/2018, 8:17:53 PM8 votes

The change was on top of the rug, and the boards for way too fucking long. I'm way all set with something that seems logical from a narrative direction.

Edit: FYI, I didn't think you were an -ist or biggot, I just think the old story was total dog shit.

HalcyonDweller5/31/2018, 8:35:08 PM2 votes
  1. I agree that because they committed to the cinematic and song that they felt like they couldn't back down.

  2. I agree that there were problems with the new story.

  3. I don't think you are being a bigot.

  4. I think that overall the new story still had the potential to be great, they just missed the mark on some really important things.

  5. I think that Riot should have made some effort to preserve some of the original motivations of Varus. In the original story he knew exactly what he was doing taking up the power from the well. It was evil, he knew it, and he didn't care. In the new story he does it "for love" and he DOESN'T know what he's getting himself into. For me, the conviction he had to have to take up a known evil was really really cool, and it's something that they never had to do away with, it could have been easily made a part of the story. They would just need for him to know it was evil and choose to use the power anyways. But alas, they didn't notice that element of the story it seems, and so it seems they overwrote it without a thought.

Ebonmaw Dragon5/31/2018, 8:49:05 PM2 votes

It does really matter to keep talking about this? You said it by yourself: They wont change it, mainly because of the cinematic.

I like a lot the old lore of champs in general, including Varus, but i dont think that the old one was better or worse than the new one, it is just different. Yes, changing a character like that is not okay and Riot learned that (as we can see with the new lore of Naut that didnt turn him into a god of Illaoi or something like they wanted), but the changes were done already and they wont change it back.

333lom6/6/2018, 9:00:36 PM2 votes

Hey, don't lose faith! People who like old lore Varus are still here! Complaint threads tend to get buried by a) people who don't care about lore and want threads to go away b) riot fanboys sadly c) those who are shallow readers.

The injustice done to the old lore still exists, and keeping the idea of it and the old lore will be important in the future. The current state of things is that the current narrative team wants to push their new stories. However we cannot know if in the future things will be retconned just like they were now.

Old lore may be erased from the league site, but it's very real in the minds of people who liked it. And there are many of us. Sadly we're three to one in ratio, so threads will usually get buried but that's not truly important. Anyways what I wanted to say is that old lore exists with its fans, not only as a text on some site. And as long as we keep it alive, it can exist for new players as well!

Gabresol5/31/2018, 8:43:20 PM1 votes

For me, a big issue is that had I not looked into Darkins myself, I would have never known that Varus is actually a Darkin