Hey Dan,
Sorry I'm a little confused at this, that team shift was meant to be towards PVP; but as far as I was aware, Alexz was a set lead on sets of Bilgewater and Bandle City. I thought it was just the PVE team that was leaving?
The focus of the product is PvP and the core audience, yes. And Rioters who are excited about that stayed on LOR and Rioters who wanted a change (maybe they've been on the game a long time, maybe they want to practice new skills, or any other myriad personal career path reasons) were fully supported in that, regardless of what part of the game they most recently worked on.
LOR is not going away and the reassurance is that this is all part of the plan and what was said in the article is the commitment - " Riot is also committed to continuing to support our game and our community. This pivot will allow us to serve the core LoR players and hyper-focus on our core audience, while also turbocharging other great games from Riot"
Its the passion of the players you should look to, not any individual's career choices. If you all love playing the game, there will be Rioters who love making the game. It's the players passion that directs Riots decisions. The fact devs want to ...
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