Riot Games is officialy working on an MMO.

[ro9ue]

I think people who don't play League or don't follow the Lore are heavily downplaying the amount of lore League has developed over the years. Let's consider Necrit, one of the people who makes Youtube videos on League lore. In one of his recent videos he said League has far deeper lore than WoW. WoW players could deflect this by saying Necrit is a League fanboy.

Problem with that thought is that Necrit is a WoW freak with 15 max level characters pre-shadowlands and 3 level 60s on WoW classic so clearly he really really likes WoW.

I think if people are really interested in the League MMO and enjoy lore they could should spend a week or two reading/watching all the comics, short stories, bios, cinematics, etc. All the Legends of Runeterra card art and descriptions would help a lot too. LoR card art is pretty fucking amazing, all of it can be right clicked to be viewed in full screen.

Not sure the problem with League lore is depth but... quality. You can write 10,000 pages but if its about a little chibi girl who is a k-pop star I really don't give a fuck.

[Black Rider]

I don't agree about the part where it says: League has deeper lore than WoW.
Come on!

[thilicen]

Feels like I've seen this one already..

[Cosmic Janitor]

Not sure the problem with League lore is depth but... quality. You can write 10,000 pages but if its about a little chibi girl who is a k-pop star I really don't give a fuck.

Pretty much this. Their characters are all over the place, I simply don't see how they want to make a sensible game world out of that. Also depth.. I have to wonder how the LoL fans would exactly describe/measure that. Each character having a bit of fluff attached to them is not exactly what I'd think of as depth.

[ZdravkoPvP]

Not sure the problem with League lore is depth but... quality. You can write 10,000 pages but if its about a little chibi girl who is a k-pop star I really don't give a fuck.

Being a bit disingenuous here, Seraphine is really lame for sure but it's just one example also it's not a chibi so a bit exaggerated.

For every Seraphine there's multiple interesting champs like Jhin, Mordekaiser, Aurelion Sol, etc. Plus WoW recently added Vulpera so they aren't exempt from cringe pandering. Riot pandered to weebs and WoW to furries.

Pretty much this. Their characters are all over the place, I simply don't see how they want to make a sensible game world out of that. Also depth.. I have to wonder how the LoL fans would exactly describe/measure that. Each character having a bit of fluff attached to them is not exactly what I'd think of as depth.

For some characters it's a lot more than a little bit of fluff and there's still four more years of lore they can add before this game is probably in beta. In just the last two years the amount of lore expansion they've done is pretty impressive. It's hard to find it all but there's a ton of it out there and I'm sure they will be able to make it coherent for an MMO. Things like the voidborn, shadow isles, watchers are all pretty easy to incorporate into raids/dungeons without much work at all. Already having enemies in the universe that all factions would fight against because they threaten everyone should make finding reasons for Ionians, Noxians, Demacians, Shurimans, etc, to work together without it being strange pretty simple.

[Zendhal The Black]

Their characters are all over the place

Recently the characters are getting real deep and entwined stories witch each other (that can't be said about the bland one dimensional trash Danuser has been spewing out)

[Cosmic Janitor]

Recently the characters are getting real deep and entwined stories witch each other (that can't be said about the bland one dimensional trash Danuser has been spewing out)

Again what is real deep for you? I'm sure some people would say the same about overwatch.

[ro9ue]

Again what is real deep for you? I'm sure some people would say the same about overwatch.

Overwatch doesn't need depth. The lore in OW serves more as background noise to make the world feel believable. OW is more about the game mechanics than anything else.

If you're going to create a shared world, presumably with quests and stories playing a much larger role... then Riot will need to care about that.

[ZdravkoPvP]

Again what is real deep for you? I'm sure some people would say the same about overwatch.

I typed up a really long response that went into detail on the lore of just one character but this god forsaken site auto logs you out after a certain amount of time of inactivity so I've got nothing.

This site functions just as it looks, as if it's from 2002 and never changed.

[Zendhal The Black]

Again what is real deep for you? I'm sure some people would say the same about overwatch.

Characters that are actually morally grey, characters with plot twists and such.

For example the "Burning of teldrasil" speculations before expansion that made people to create light years better theories of why and how the tree burned (like inside job by Jaina) and instead web got the most bland, uninspireing conclusion that was so predictable people actually refused to believe it (Sylvanas is just mustache twirling villain)

Now compare that for example with Noxus invasion to Ionia, story of Boram Darkwill (character that's not even in game) The Black Rose Organisation, Swain overthrowing him while there is a story of Noxus being build on fortress of Mordekaiser (better version of Maw)

[Big Thanks]

LoL has story guys and i love this channel about it.

[Philojia]

They working an MMO that they plan to publish in 7 8 years. But i guess they don't see how the new generation don't want to play MMO anymore, but well good luck to them but I definitely think that this is not a good idea

[Big Thanks]

OMG is happening! This are exciting times . They are recruiting here on the site

https://www.riotgames.com/en/mmo-recruiting

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[Garretdejiko]

I'll play only if I get to be a Vastaya

[Edge-]

Now we just have to hope this team doesn't work outta the main offices and doesn't have to deal with the C-suite sexually harassing them and farting in their faces and shit.

I'm here for it though, if for no other reason than I can get mad at Ghostcrawler for being "totally responsible" for ruining whatever class I'm playing. Still salty over what a lot of the paladin changes under his watch in WoW.

But real though, I'm super here for this. Really curious to see what they cook up, even knowing that anything is years and years away from being ready to show publicly.

[Khain]

This look so early in development that it will take at least 2 years just to show some footage of it. Welp lets hope it doesn't end like project Titan.

[ro9ue]

I think the big issue I've always had leaving WoW to try another MMO was that every other game, no matter how many interesting spins on the ideas they had, just didn't have that polished, snappy, very sophisticated feel that WoW did. Riot is a company that does that.

They also acquired a shit ton of Blizzard employees over the last 5 years. They've also been extremely fair with their business models. LoL, their first game has the worst business model, but you look at Valorant (Overwatch model) and Legends of Runeterra (best digital TCG in terms of $ spent).

I have to admit that I'm not too keen on the LoL lore. I find bits and pieces interesting, but so much of it seems... odd. If the game is fun though I'll likely play it a lot.

[Kelduril]

League lore is a joke. Making an MMO out of it.... eeeeehhhhhhhhhh

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They working an MMO that they plan to publish in 7 8 years. But i guess they don't see how the new generation don't want to play MMO anymore, but well good luck to them but I definitely think that this is not a good idea

Not true, you just need casual friendly mechanics, buy/free to play instead of subs and really good graphics/customisation/armors

Like if BDO had actual gameplay and wasn't pay to win it would've been a huge hit.

[Edge-]

Like if BDO had actual gameplay and wasn't pay to win it would've been a huge hit.

It is a huge hit, even with some of the MTX issues.

[Kelduril]

It is a huge hit, even with some of the MTX issues.

60,000 all time peak players on Steam doesn't seem like a hit to me