I'm a big fan of this type of work. Over time, players find the cracks in champion designs or the game changes such that they don't apply as well. Giving a second pass (What would we do differently if we did it over?) is a great opportunity to breathe life back into stale characters.
I do wish that there was more transparency about them. Some don't even get announced until they go to PBE, like the Sivir one, and even the others rarely were announced much in advance. It would be hype to know which champs are being worked on before we see them, just like is done for VGUs, new champs, and ASUs. I was really hoping this QGT would tell us which mid scope(s) were coming next but we don't know if anything else is coming right now.
Announcing midscopes is dangerous. It's important for the designer to have the freedom to cancel/delay when appropriate since midscopes need to be clear improvements over the original, so being constrained by a release date when early in development is likely to result in a higher % of "failed" mid scopes. For Sivir for example, it was announced pretty much as soon as I had the bones of something good enough to be "locked in". That wasn't the same time as when I began the project.
I'm a big fan of this type of work. Over time, players find the cracks in champion designs or the game changes such that they don't apply as well. Giving a second pass (What would we do differently if we did it over?) is a great opportunity to breathe life back into stale characters.
Love me some mid-scopium! You guys rock!
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