@KateyKhaos if someone offered a full VU, would you use it?

Weathered··8 votes·973 views

Lets say that someone has contacted Riot and is offering what they made. They have made a full VU for a champion, let's say Fiddlesticks. Take it as the best case scenario, the splash art is complete, the ingame model is great with little to no bugs, the animations are fluid, and the spell effects are even there. Everything is there for a VU except possibly a voice over or lore update and it is all able to be edited or changed. The whole shebang.

The deal is that the person would give Riot all of the files and work they had done, and allow Riot full rights to change, alter, or use any part of it, with the one condition that the person would get a small recognition (maybe in patch notes, the wiki, but not anything major or in game).

Would you take the deal? If the community did all the work for you, and everyone loved the work, would you guys step to that level of communication to work with us?

People are passionate about this game, and many of them already spend most of their lives devoted to it. So many of us have the capability to make content on the same level you guys can, and we to help. People would willingly do the work for VU's, but we never get the chance because the boards is the only way to communicate well.

8 Comments

CrazedPorcupine4 votes

I feel like Riot should take advantage of the Polycount Community.

For those of you not familiar, Polycount is a forum that hosts a competition every year, where people make item sets (For Dota 2 and TF2) and if they win, those sets get added to the game. A few years ago, League was also added into the mix of games you could make things for, (Champion models, splash arts, skins, etc.) However, the prize was only RP.

I feel like the amount of dedication and work that the Polycount community puts into their work should be better recognized and many of those skins being used.

Weathered2 votes

Riot always talks about how things take time, resources, etc., but the community is literally handing them stuff. I feel like they won't let themselves use community creations because they are a "company" now rather than what they used to be when League started out.

Ralanr2 votes

Probably.

SeargentAnus4 votes

They'd have to sign a ton of contracts to give full rights of their work to Riot.

Mimaropa5 votes

In addition, Riot already has their own team for the VUs. I noticed that Riot hires exceptional people in their company(ex: the musician who help made harry potter music and several famous VO people) and recently the VUs are well made. VUs are hard to make, they are basically scraping most of the champ and leaving only their niche. There is a lot of planning and coding put into them as you could see in their posts about their VUs.

I would trust Riot's hired team rather than some guy/gal that did it in their free time which is impossible to do for one person unless this said person has a lot of free time and superior education and skills.

Weathered1 votes

This is what bothers me. They have professional teams, really talented employees, the highest yearly income of any gaming company, yet content comes out at a snail's pace and most of the time out of the blue or without communication.

Pyrodinium3 votes

We don't know Riot's actual income, just their revenue.

And there was a time when they released content much faster, and the results where not as good as today. A lot of the champions in need of a rework today are like that because of a desire to deliver quantity over quality.

Niyumi1 votes

Welcome to F2P, where quality of content is irrelevant, and you don't actually give a damn about your product. ^^

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