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That's one of those things we can't really talk about except in fairly vague terms unfortunately. A lot of it though is about trying to figure out what creates the best overall package that leaves both parties as happy as possible (since the ideal scenario is a long running partnership both organizations feel good about). Lots of back and forth about potential options, trade offs, etc while working to understand the goals of the partner org you're talking with.

Yeah, this one's a bit of a middle ground. We debated whether to do something through more official channels now or once we had something more definitive to share. Concluded it was better to just jump in and say something where discussion was happening right now, then do more formal messaging once we know what's happening for the rest of the year. Realize that's not ideal for some folks though

Hey folks - I wanted to jump in and provide a little context to this conversation. Jumping on top comment to help with vis

Our original partnership with Amazon was just for 2022. We have, however, been talking with them about a potential 2023 version. In the short term, while those conversations are ongoing, we’re going to do a February capsule drop that’s the same as last year’s.

In the long term, we’re still figuring out whether something’s possible and if so what it might look like (though it’s unlikely to be the same as the 2022 version). We’ll share the new details with you as soon as we’ve got something concrete

Next regular patch in two weeks will likely be called 13.3 yeah, even in 13.1b or whatever is the name we use for the hotfix that replaces 13.2.

It'll help with bots, though there's some other stuff needed there as well.

Full notes out later today. Patch includes fighter items, buffs to Lillia, Orianna and Zoe, nerfs to GP, Heimer, Kass, Lucian, Kindred, Maokai, Nami (RIP me), Ryze, Udyr and Yuumi

They're not the sort of changes we can hotfix, so will need to wait for 13.3 (next regular patch in a couple of weeks)

Yeah, Annie changes aren't all the sort of thing we can hotfix, so they'll move to 13.3

Fighter items should still be in the patch yeah. Patch notes will go out later today

LoR patch development has been impacted, we’re cautiously optimistic though that the patch for the 31st will be able to go ahead however

Last I heard PBE was still likely a few days from being back to normal with future patch content. We're looking at getting some ASol gameplay videos out from internal testing as a small way to help bridge that gap though for what it's worth

Being honest, yeah, there is some meaningful risk of additional cheating happening (or at least being tried) when stuff like this happens. One silver lining is that as we mentioned briefly in that video a week or two back, updating anti-cheat with a new system was something we were looking to do anyway in 2023. Going to try and accelerate that work given all of this.

Thank you. Not our favourite sort of thing to deal with of course, but hey at least it's a chance to keep working on that better communication thing we've talked about...

Impact on League's next patch or two:

"Quick update, players. The team completed a hotfix that will include a lot of the content that was scheduled for patch 13.2. It’ll go live on January 26, but unfortunately, we won’t be able to include the Ahri ASU and some other stuff, which we will move to patch 13.3 (Feb. 8)."

https://twitter.com/LeagueOfLegends/status/1617900453215473664

And for TFT folks

"We’ve completed work on a hotfix that includes a lot of what we had planned for patch 13.2, though due to hotfix size limita...

Almost certainly unrelated, internal development environments and processes get kept really separate from the live game wherever possible (not saying it's impossible, but odds are real high there's something else going on with said packet loss)

Appreciated

Currently still aiming for 13.3. Possible that could change as we learn more, not currently assumed though

No player data, including your passwords, were affected here.

We're still assessing. Current take is probably not, since WR development as a mobile only game goes through a different process. Should know more for impact on all the games next week though.

Fingers crossed. We've got a lot of people digging in right now, should know more after the next 2-3 days.