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Can this be the new r/leagueoflegends circlejerk please? It seems like the general consensus is that the planned number of VGU's is just too small. Like, I get that back when they would do 6 or 7 a year it was a bit much, but dropping that down to 1 is a bit of an overcorrection. Especially with that one being decided either on a whim (see Mundo VGU) or by community poll. It'd be nice if we got 2 or 3 as that seems to be a good middle point between updating champs and adding new ones. It just feels like the next couple of years are going to be frustrating otherwise since this year we have the Mundo VGU, then we have the Udyr VGU set for 2022, and then they're probably going to do what they did with Mundo and do that other unrevealed champ for 2023 on a whim, meaning the earliest the other champs on the poll will be getting a VGU is 2024 at the earliest. That last point is a bit of hyperbole, but you get what I'm saying. Look, I don't know that much about game development and I'm sure the folks over at Riot are putting their hearts and souls into these VGUs, the effort has shown in Fiddlesticks and Volibear, but it'd be nice if we could get just a little more than what they've planned for us.

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about 4 years ago - /u/Reav3 - Direct link

To be clear, we didn't intentionally drop down to 1, from a strategy perspective. We had orinally planned to do the VGU poll much earlier and ship 2 VGUs this year, Mundo and whoever won the poll, even when the voting tech had to be redone when we depreciated nexus, we still started up what would have been the 2nd VGU for 2021 without the voting poll. Unfortunately the realities of Covid and switching to a WFH model effected our production schedule. It's not something we plan on continuing every year in the future

about 4 years ago - /u/Reav3 - Direct link

Originally posted by SketchtheHunter

Oh, ok, I understand. That's a load off my mind. Thank you for responding, I hope I didn't overstep my bounds with this post.

no worries, its understandable, I was pretty sad when we had to cut the 2nd VGU for this year as well, as I love working on VGUs just as much as you all love seeing them released.

about 4 years ago - /u/Reav3 - Direct link

Originally posted by LoveLikeOxygen

Can you say without spoiling too much why you guys had to cut the 2nd VGU? Like, at sometime we didn't like the approach, etc

It was a resource issue, we were already behind due to covid and then we lost a designer on the team (not from Riot but they went to another team within Riot)

about 4 years ago - /u/Reav3 - Direct link

Originally posted by Seal100

Does this mean you still plan on trying to get a second VGU out for next year? Or is the plan currently only Udyr for 2022?

currently we want to do 2 VGUs in 2022, yes, not just Udyr. Obviously things can always change but our current goal is at least 2 VGUs for 2022, yes