League of Legends Dev Tracker

No current plans to. Forge games are a pretty different offering since they're single player, completable, aimed at being accessible to an audience that hasn't necessarily played League before etc. We took a different distribution approach as a result

Hmm, to the best of my knowledge Jeremy/Brightmoon has never played Mundo ADC. Sorry, I think you must be overqualified as a result, we'll have to pass.

LOL omg.....
I wish I was more camera friendly. Fun fact, we do the videos because it was our jobs to make those decisions, thus we can speak on it truthfully.
Most of my videos comes out disastrously (my own fault) and I can't stand watching them/hearing them (so I don't).
Def not professionals... I think I'm getting a bit better with practice!
I personally: Sometimes muddles my pronunciations, blinks waayyyy too much because of dry eyes, annnnnd realizing irl expressiveness doesn't translate well on camera.
But I'm glad others are not picking this up and think we do good aesthetics <3

Got ya. The quality's shockingly pretty good tbh

Skins team and Gameplay teams don't really mix headcounts! So personally (as someone on a team that doesn't bring in the bread), I'm thankful for Skins team trying to figure out how to get more bread and bacon with the team they have, so us gameplay teams never have to worry about money :D
In fact, the more that they do, the more likely we are to get more funding the years after so that we can do more things.

Yeah, this one did feel lighter, especially the lack of core gameplay stuff. We'd originally pencilled in some time to talk about 'preseason' changes, particularly what needed clarification, what was controversial etc. Didn't end up with much to say there though since things have been generally going pretty smoothly. We concluded we should still do a video, stay in the habit of talking regularly even if there's sometimes a bit less to say. You'll also get a much longer, chunkier set of topics early January with season start of course too!

Exactly how Mythic Variants will interact with the loot system is something we haven't determined ourselves quite yet, which is assumedly why Player Support had to tell you they couldn't say. First couple were a trial to see what interest was like, so we hadn't sorted out all the longer term details. Apologies for the lack of answer beyond that, we'll definitely get it clarified soonish, didn't want to just leave the question unanswered at all though either

Agreed.

Won't have anything to report in the near term, but it's a thing we've been talking about a bunch internally and have some longer term plans around.

Core things to balance are:
- Players who mostly care about the rewards and don't want to change their playstyles
- Rewarding players who would actually be willing to change things up a little (But figuring out how much is important)
- Not warping the game too much with objectives that can incentivize players to play in a losing way
- Making sure there is not just superficial variety, and that we are actually helping players discover new things about the game or improve their play
- Supporting multiple modes, now and in the future

So it's actually a surprisingly complex problem, but we're on it.

Update gets released fairly early next year

Yep. For decisions like this we look at a mixture of current % of player base, decline in usage of said operating systems each month and where the larger gaming market is going in general (other games deprecating accelerates players moving off them even more etc etc)

My vacation was built around going once I scored tickets! Worlds hype is real and I love joining the hype traiiiinnnnnnn for Finals. :)

That's kind of you to say - I love this game and this community and will still be around and cheering you all on. I look forward to introducing you all to the next EP soon!

I think there's a really understandable concern in there that cosmetics in general might shift towards all being really expensive. One of the things we wanted to highlight here is that high priced content for those who want something exclusive due to its price is an addition, not a replacement, to the stuff we're already doing

Agreed, we'll very much miss him on the League team once he moves on to do other stuff at Riot (though you'll still see him for a couple more months or so!)

Also, shameless plug to people possibly reading - if you love League and have experience leading a large dev team (ideally live service) we'd love to hear from you! We'll be posting the job opening on our website sometime really soon

We'll keep looking at min spec, memory included, each year or so. While we'd love to open up some options for the dev team we also don't want to exclude a significant number of players to do so, so it's an ongoing balancing act

We want to make sure the core essence of a champion's maintained throughout the different places they appear. We also want to support different art styles and tones though, so some degree of variance is deliberate. Going to be case by case. A lot of the time though is one product demonstrates a strong upgrade to an existing character we'll want to adopt that elsewhere too whenever we next work on them (e.g. LoR Nid's a great take on the character I'd love to see elsewhere, Arcane's take on Caitlyn was something we wanted to adopt everywhere once we saw it etc)

This change is about phasing out support for older operating systems, not about hardware. Won't mean more memory available for development, will mean things like a somewhat easier development process, slightly streamlined QA, better security etc though instead.

I bought my best friend (and fellow Rioter) Ice Toboggan Corki bed sheets for his birthday this year. They're shockingly soft and are the funniest thing I've ever seen.

A 'priority' position is one of the two least requested roles, to try and make sure there's enough players in each role.

When selecting your role, it will show that two of the roles are marked as 'priority'. At least one of your roles must be a priority role in order to queue.

Following up with folks to find out (hoping it's just that we didn't put that stuff in the FAQ, not sure yet though)