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"We’re figuring out how to make our lore and storytelling consistent across Runeterra. More on this later. " Written in the dev blog released 7 months ago. https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/tl-dw-champions-lore-modes-more-dev-diary/

  • So far they cancelled color stories in favor of cinematics
  • Cinematic released on Naafiri was contradicting estabilished Lore until they changed the bio, cinematic still misleading
  • They promised update for febr-march that never happened.
  • https://twitter.com/LeagueOfLegends/status/1626271338854744065 this was the source video where they promised new ways to tell stories.

Brightmoon promised an update on lore.

Katarina comic was extremely beloved by the community.

  • It was a great way to show us what happened to King Jarven III.
  • What Happened to General Du Coteau.
  • How did Garen met with Katarina.
  • Estabilish and show the Noxian ways.
  • Answered the long existing question on Katarina's magic
  • Shown us the dinamics between Katarina and Talon

Comics were usually appreciated and they could serve the intentions to tell stories well. I tought Ruined King Viego was released because the book sold well...

Despite these facts looks like Lore is not important. Why do they have to tell us about updates that never meant to happen? It's the 4th of Spetember by now and there is radio silence on it.

Lexical told us about they doing more videos, cinematics are short stories are not getting enough reading but look at the Naafiri issue. If we only could get more cinematics with Quality of the "Kin of the Stained Blade" (writing quality mostly)

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over 1 year ago - /u/NeoLexical - Direct link

Originally posted by MontyAtWork

It really feels like Riot got new managers in who all asked "But why are we doing that?" at every level of producing League, and when given an answer that didn't outline how that effort made the company more DIRECTLY profitable, they cut it.

Reminds me of every time I was at a company that got bought out and brought in new managers who didn't understand the product, culture, or customers and only understood the bottom line.

Cinematic? How's that profitable? Cut.

Lore? How's that profitable? Cut.

Season changes? How's that profitable? Cut.

Gentle reminder that a lot of decisions are almost made a year in advance, because it takes time to do work. 2023 is a result of 2022 etc