Whichever country has the most restrictive rules now defines the art globally for the entire game

DynamiteGazelle·4/6/2016, 10:18:57 AM·260 votes·10,863 views

That's what these new splash changes mean

Edit: To clarify, I'm not talking about the changes to the Chinese spalshes on an aesthetic level. Although I don't like some of them, that's not a part of this conversation.

What I AM talking about is the censorship of splashes like Graves, Karthus, and now ChoGath, as well as the knowledge that certain thematic areas are completely off limits (undead, drug related, government themes, or any kind of patriotism to any country)

It may be a bit high-brow of me, but I find it hard to support art made under such constraints. I can't find it in me to endorse censorship or any kind, even in such a small way.

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RebirthAngel4/6/2016, 10:23:59 AM78 votes

yeah. it saddens me. can't even have a cho-gath and a graves with a cigar :\ I understand their reasoning, but its just a bum. It's so people under age can still play this, which imo is not exactly a good thing.

Forbidden Siren4/6/2016, 11:11:13 AM37 votes

But... but... isn't the point of Karthus' visual rework is to avoid the Chinese censorship? Yet, his new default splash is still censored!

ArlanKels4/6/2016, 7:37:04 PM28 votes

Artwork that is not free to be whatever is not artwork.

Artwork that is constrained is nothing more than a pale imitation of what the imagination allows.

TheVishual4/6/2016, 2:55:00 PM27 votes

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That's what these new splash changes mean.

Tencent owns like 99 percent of riot now so actually it's "the owners of the company decide what the splash art will be" not whichever region has the most restrictive rules... China is a communist country still FYI not really surprising

Actually pulled straight from wikipedia and the general shift of the entire game since then...

"On February 18, 2011, Tencent acquired a majority equity interest (92.78%)[56] in Riot Games, developer of League of Legends, for about USD 230 million. Tencent had already held 22.34% of the equity interest out of a previous investment in 2008. On the 16th December 2015, Riot Games sold its remaining equity to Tencent Holdings."

which would explain why the game sucks so much right now

GenoXx4/6/2016, 10:22:18 AM9 votes

Well, why can't Riot act on their own now? You mean to tell me China is calling the big shots for Riot?....... Sigh and i had such high hopes for Riot as a gaming company....Tencent is going to keep it stagnant or maybe somethign even worstt

Caitlyn Hunt4/6/2016, 7:15:38 PM4 votes

they're getting tons of our splashes too. every region is having the same splashes now, so we pick chinese or normal for every splash. some of chinas have better quality, so they pick them. the whole reason they did chinese splashes is coz our art quality was too low for their standards at the time (see our toxic mundo) but eventually we had ok art (they stopped making their own art after fiora) so they used ours from then on.

Only Play Darius4/6/2016, 8:59:26 PM2 votes

So, what are they going to do about http://media.lolusercontent.com/api/embedly/1/image/resize?url=http%3A%2F%2Fam-a.akamaihd.net%2Fimage%3Ff%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.cdn.leagueoflegends.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fpages%2F2016%2Fmarch%2Ftre%2Fimg%2FTaric_FifthAge_Splash_Wallpaper.jpg%26resize%3D1536%3A&key=a45e967db0914c7fb472fd4381e6c85b&width=425 ?

One of my friends in High School was an exchange student from Turkey and he was homophobic, he said the culture in his home country was openly against it too. How are they going to implement this on the Turkish servers?