@Riot Narrative team, What's going on in the Narrative Department Lately?

Impetual·Dec 8, 2014·7 votes·963 views

We haven't heard anything from you guys in quite awhile, and I was just wondering:

What kinda stuff are you guys working on?

10 Comments

AlljoyDec 8, 20146 votes

At this rate, the Narrative Department could just be the janitors at Riot HQ on their lunchbreak for all we know.

ImpetualDec 9, 20142 votes

Well...ya, that's kinda how it feels to us players.

That's why I made this thread, to give RIot an opportunity to show us how the narrative department works these days.

It's an invitation for Riot to show us how much they care about lore by telling us about how much they are investing in it.

Riot, don't let us down. talk with us a bit about how lore is handled at Riot, please.

Legacy of XionDec 9, 20144 votes

It's obvious the Narrative Team doesn't care about us. Ya'know, the only damn people who care what they actually do.

Give up and go to Factions; CupcakeTrap knows how to do Lore better then the guys who pay for it, AND CupcakeTrap takes in player submissions for Lore and ideas.

Narrative should give up and hire CT for Narrative Lead, forever. Because she knows how to do things right.

ImpetualDec 9, 20141 votes

My hope is that they are working on something awesome. Which is partially why I am giving them an outlet via this thread to let us know about some of the lore awesomeness that is to come.

Well RIot? Got anything to say?

GenoXxDec 10, 20145 votes

It's not going to happen. The fact that everytime some one ask Narrative a question, and some one from a non-narrative team (like IronStylus) comes and give some explaining shows that they wont amswer to question we have to ask atm. Unless its something for a new champion like how Jareden answered questions on Rek'Sai's Q&A or an event that comes once a year.

The Harrowing is something Riot does every year for the Holiday Halloween. So of course Narrative gives something to that, most of riot has to. Other than that, some merry folk will come to Story and Art board asking clueless question and they cherry pick it.

Other than that, no, just dead silence.

Gee, i wish i could apologize to TerraRising about what i said back in the Lore discussion forum. I am starting to see it better

Sneak DogDec 10, 20144 votes

They're doing their own lore and creating lots and lots of it while waiting for another team to solve some technical issues and they'll all reveal it at once (or even piecemeal!) and it'll be wonderful. Except that it probably just retcons everything they didn't like in the old lore, which can include entire playable characters or the very premise of the lore. But if you just imagine like there never was any old lore it'll be great, I'm sure of it.

I'll just be over here, complaining about the removal and replacal of Trundle. I'll just wait for you to join me when your favorite character gets retconned out. It might take a couple of years though, but odds are it'll happen like it has to Trundle and quite arguably to Xerath (not an expert on Xerath, but his main motivation got changed, according to Kalista that's enough to define a character, so...).

MotajoDec 10, 20143 votes

I'll just wait for you to join me when your favorite character gets retconned out.

I dread this so much. I have no faith in whatever Riot has planned for Lux.

Speeks EngrishDec 10, 20142 votes

You do realize they're not going to rise to a thread specifically targeting them, right? They only jump into discussions related to their work, from what I've seen.

For my part, I'm taking a break from lore, both old and new, and just focusing on the excellent game itself. If/when Narrative decides to start, y'know, narrating, I'll be back to check it out. Until that time, I'd rather avoid the wails of anguish and despair which permeate the digital walls of this board. It gets rather depressing.

Earl EulrichDec 10, 20145 votes

They only jump into discussions related to their work

nah, they occassionaly react to praise...but they certainly don´t answer constructive criticism in any manner that doesn´t insult the intelect of us summoners.

ImpetualDec 11, 20141 votes

C'mon Riot, could be get a red response from someone who know what they are talking about here?