Holding key positions, Feral(Design Lead), Jonathan(Producer, managed gameplay and balance), Rory(Animation Director), Hideo (International Game Producer) had left WR dev team and WR is not even 1-year old yet. They have been active on tweeting WR stuffs and interacting with us since Alpha Test - June 2020 and this is such a loss for the WR society.
Is this normal for a new/beta game and are u guys worried about the future of WR?
External link →While I'm always sad to see teammates go for whatever reason, this is pretty normal in my experience in game dev. Wild Rift has been in development for a while, so while it may seem like people are swapping out "early," for some people it has been a few years. That being said, the team is getting bigger every day, so you'll just have some new people to meet :).
Yeah, it's pretty normal after we ship a game for people to look around and find new projects. Shipping something is very different than continuously improving it (what we're doing now). This happened with our other games too and I think it's overall healthy because those senior folks get to work on something exciting and new to them, you can promote experienced people within the team and give them a chance to grow, and you can bring on some new awesome people. The size of the Wild Rift team has still kept growing after we released to most of the world.
It's sad when those opportunities are outside Riot, but exciting for those folks. Some people like Feral Pony were only supposed to be on the project for a short amount of time, so they're really overdue for another project and I'm glad he found something on another Riot team. I'm grateful that he was around to shepherd us out the door. Some folks that y'all probably don't know who are super awesome went over to the Riot MMO team as well.
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