Riot, let's talk lore.

Technomancy··4 votes·1,337 views

I get it. You make this big video that looks cool and fancy and shit. I understand you want that to introduce a champion. I get that you made this multiple letter long story about Rek'Sai, describing a lot of Shurima's culture and way of life. That's cool, and a good step in the right direction. But 2 sentences.

2 (two) sentences.

That's all you could do with Bard's lore. You're employees are working extra hours during the week, over 40. They are living in their own sub-culture basically from all of the interviews and reviews of everything. And that's all you could approve? You know, you spend all this time, making all these stories, and then when I click on that lore button that used to be the champions story, I get some of their traits. I don't get their past, I don't get their story, their LORE, I get a basic description of how the champ feels. It's sad, especially when you made 1 billion in revenue last year. Hire some of those English and creative writing majors to write a little bit and stick it in that section of your code. I mean, it's literally copy-paste into the code.

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GenoXx10 votes

It doesnt help. Since now learned that there isnt a Narrative team, but champion teams, I now know that we are never going to get the lore we want as a community.

I was literally told that when champion is coming up, some one from riot is assigned his/her story. That means thats 1/100 rioters that can have that role. So yeah this is the undeniable truth that Riot doesn't have a Lore/Narrative team. Its just someone who's assigned to do a story for someone.

All the while they fucking coy along with us constantly asking for the Narrative team. So this means: -We will NOT see anything lore outside a champion release. -We will NOT get anything long bios of the sort. Bard is a perfect example. They made made a video of him, but no story to follow. Meaning they won't be making anymore of those like Kalista and Azir. -We will be constantly bullshitted because Riot doesnt care(they say they do but they really don't)

There are rioters lurking on the boards all the time. The story and Art is no exception. They won't respond to a thread that's going to make them feel guilty. But will do to a thread that sounds like like the OP is a happy-go-lucky type of fellow. TerraRising even proved this when he made a post talking about the core-concept of Yorick, then following post about how he went along with their "Game" Which is only responding to threads that seem positive to them.

Riot has really let me down. Played this game for a year now only because of he lore. And now i see that my favorite aspect of the game is ruined and won't recover because we have people like their "Narative" Team. So sad

Chromatic Eagle1 votes

They said that they don't like releasing stories to the forums because it isn't fair for some of the regions who don't get it in their language.

Tesla Effect1 votes

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They said that they don't like releasing stories to the forums because it isn't fair for some of the regions who don't get it in their language.

It can be translated by those that do know English. :T

Chromatic Eagle1 votes

I meant like English to Korean but yeah. Don't try too hard to understand Riot's logic. I think they're digging themselves into a hole here.

GenoXx1 votes

They wouldnt have to release it to the forums.

Chromatic Eagle1 votes

Exactly, which is why they're not releasing lore at all lately. Tech issues.

GenoXx2 votes

You keep believing that.

Technomancy3 votes

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Exactly, which is why they're not releasing lore at all lately. Tech issues.

Yes, a company that made 1 billion dollars in net profit last year is having technical issues finding someone who speaks multiple languages, so they can't add in more than 2 sentences into the lore tab in the champion screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aegP8j5al0

WukongMain2 votes

Hell, ill do it for free, as long as i get review on what they didn't like, so i can improve and hopefully write something they do like using their review lol.

Tesla Effect1 votes

There is a lot of lore that you can pull out from champion lore and the cinematics. Best examples are Rek Sais promo page with lore, Azirs and Xeraths lore. Brilliantly done, which flesh out Shurima, Noxus and their two relations.

Technomancy1 votes

But that's not what the community at large wants on the lore page of a champions page in the client. Why not write a little about that past there? It takes almost no effort to do this.

GenoXx1 votes

Yes i understand this, but seriously. Why does it have to be champ release only? That's what im getting at. No one wants to wait another two months for an update on lore?

UomoAfide1 votes

Employ Mister Dan Abnett ---> Awesome Lore ----> profit :v

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