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For future reference don't refer to a race without using the appropriate wording.
For reference of my own race;
Native American not American Indian.
First Nations =/= Native Americans.
For future reference don't refer to a race without using the appropriate wording.
For reference of my own race;
Native American not American Indian.
First Nations =/= Native Americans.
Thanks!
Pls don’t use Latinx lol
Sorry for the poor wording, and thanks for calling me out on it. Edited
With the modern emphasis on Humans inspired from other cultures like Samira/Viego, is there any plan to return to Ixtal in the near future?
The region has a lot of Meso-American inspiration and offers a pretty unique blend of various cultures that I feel isn't fully explored through just the existence of Qiyana, and I was hoping to see more given how long it has been since the region took the spotlight or even had an associated champion released.
Yes of course. The main reason we created a new faction in Ixtal was we didn’t feel we had a region that we could do Latin representation from. It’s something we for sure want to develop more on the future. Edited, apologize for the poor wording, and thanks for calling me out on it
If we can't get more creature champions...can we get more 'monstrous humanoids' then? Rito pls.
Yes, going forward our plan is more monstrous humans
I thought it was pretty clear but looking at the comments it seems as though you might need to write jot notes instead of rationale to get the point across more easily.
I have a question though, how do you measure engagement and how do you decouple it from strength within meta/between patches/regions and regional metas.
We look at it over a long period of time before we draw major conclusions so we can see the general engagement at different power levels and over multiple patches
I hope we can get at least 1 monstrous champ each year (from either humanoid or creature). I guess the thing about humans representing humans seems obvious to people but in fact it happens in others IPs. Makes me wonder, are we going to see an Aztec inspired champ that could fit in Ixtal?
Next year we are planning to do a lot more non humans then we have been doing
Read moreAnd while Runeterra isn’t Earth—so our goal isn’t to make champs that perfectly reflect real world locations—we have made a stronger effort to make champions inspired by regions everywhere. We want all players to be able to see themselves in the games they play, and League champs are no exception. This is something we’ve become really passionate about on the Champions Team, which you’ll see reflected in some of our recent (and upcoming) champions. For example, Samira was inspired by Persian culture, Viego by conquistador-era Spanish culture, and so on. To do good cultural representation though, you almost certainly need to make humans, or at least champions that are close enough to humans that people can relate to and identify with them. So this is another reason we’ve been doing more humans recently.
Not sure if any Rioter will read or answer this comment, but there have been a vocal minority that are bitching about Irelia looking Asian outside t...
She is meant to have Asian facial features, yes. We probably just didn’t convey it as well as we should have in the splash
Yea, I'm not buying that at all. Everything is about revenue.
Well people having higher engagement with LoL likely leads to higher revenue, my point is we don’t judge or make champions based on the money they make. The main reason we make new champions is to keep LoL a engaging game
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This is fundamentally untrue. Lux and Ezreal skins are still money makers. It’s not like giving a skin to some new Champion makes way more then giving a old popular champion a skin. Champ sales themselves are extremely small compared to skin sales, especially since a large portion of new champs are acquired through blue essence. If we primarily cared about money making it would be a way stronger strategy to just move developers from champs team to make skins instead.
Did they just acknowledge that they f**ked up with Aurelion Sol's kit?
And the whole article just feels like a big excuse to justify "Human champs are hot and sell more" without saying it outright tbh.
Lol, I actually wrote this to clear that up specifically. Champs team have no revenue goals but we do have engagement goals. Looks like unfortunately I guess that didn’t come through here though.
Perfection.
