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It's something we'd like to offer, hence inclusion in Wild Rift for example. With the way Summoner's Rift was built it would require some pretty substantial overhaul's to the map's art unfortunately. Whenever's the right time to update the map as a whole we'll definitely do camera stuff like that.

I think the current version of SR has held up really well visually, but it's certainly going to hit a point sometime where the amount of stuff, both overall appearance and opportunities like that one, makes the case for another full update

Ah, apologies if we put a bit too much weight on the cinematic in our delivery. We wanted to cover that up front as the most recent thing, the trigger for talking like this in a much rougher than usual format, as something that was extra painful given other misses. Didn't want to convey we thought it was the central or key issue.

Going to do our damnedest. Looking to be a lot more proactive where we haven't been recently, I expect there'll also be some emergent stuff where reactive discussions are also needed too though (in addition, not instead)

What's your preference on format? I tend to favor text blogs or similar just personally (hate being on camera most of the time), but I realize a lot of people tend to prefer video content regardless.

Yeah, that's the intent. 4 teams of 2 players, matchmaking against a random other pair each round, buy items and gain levels between rounds. Lose enough rounds and you get eliminated. Still figuring out a lot of the details in terms of how many rounds, map layout etc.

Lemme ask about getting it onto YouTube as well if it's not already being done.

Based off what we've prototyped so far I think that one will be a game mode that works really well for some players and isn't of much interest to others. If you're looking for things like a focus on tactical champ v champ combat, figuring out which pairings of champions work best together and how builds should change in this context, this mode could be pretty exciting. If you're looking for different experiences, then yeah, might not be the right fit.

We're working to get back to offering a wider variety of modes for a range of different tastes. This is the example we were best placed to talk about today and we figured more transparency and specificity on what we trying than we've been offering recently was important, even if this example wouldn't appeal to everyone watching

In retrospect, yeah, most of this should have either been in the recent dev videos or should have been things we brought up with you all last year.

There are also a couple of things, like the recently prototyped game mode I mention, that didn't exist when we were producing those videos in November and December.

VAL's had a CD for a while and that's worked really well for them - one of the reasons we've decided to add one to LoL as well!

^{^}

People in the industry on other games or entertainment stuff also play a lot of games themselves and spend time in subreddits. I lurk in a bunch of other game subreddits for example depending on what else I'm playing (PoE right now for example)

Send me a Reddit DM!

If you're looking to get into the field we do post roles at more junior levels too, though they tend to get a lot of applicants so don't stay up long/don't get visibility raised like this one. In our jobs page you'll want to keep an eye on things in the creative, narrative, writing/editing and occasionally design sections. Page gets updated constantly with roles getting added and removed

Yeah, the Deep Knowledge of the LoL IP's in the desired rather than required section as a result. We're confident we can help someone with the right interest, past experience and demonstrated skills get into the IP.

If they're already there though that's a strong bonus and a much faster ramp up though so a definite nice to have

For positions this senior we're looking for candidates with a lot of experience doing this sort of job or similar work, given how much that sets people up to be effective in a challenging role. We also frequently post entry and mid level roles which don't have the same requirements but can be part of the same career path.

Age is not something we consider when creating job descriptions, assessing candidates or in any other parts of the process.

It's certainly worked in the past for what it's worth! We've had some great folks join Riot, both those with experience in the industry and those new to it, starting with posting/discussion on Reddit and other social media :)

Much appreciated, I miss those sorts of chats too. I'm looking to get back to posting more once things settle down a bit, it's been a while and would love to remedy that!

Thank you!

Those two are different projects (and no, apologies, but I can't share anything more)

For this particular piece we wanted to focus on big picture goals, company values, overall approach etc, rather than trying to cram all of that and game updates together all at once, given that tends to serve neither topic as well as separate updates.

In case you missed it there was also an update on Project L in November last year:

https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/project-l-dev-finding-our-game#:~:text=So%2C%20although%20we've%20made,not%20going%20to%20rush%20it.

Agreed on reports alone being a dangerous indicator to focus too much on here. We'll be going off player survey data more to understand sentiment as a result

Team chat - agreed, the majority of verbal abuse does happen there. At the same time so does a lot of team coordination. We've not expecting this to hit the majority of verbal abuse but, looking at the state of all chat, we do feel it's got a pretty poor ratio of positive to negative interactions.

Regarding an opt in experience one thing we saw pretty repeatedly is that people who want any form of chat experience in the first place won't stay out of a comms channel because they don't want to miss out on potentially valuable stuff, even if most interactions are negative