Riot Games has announced it will be laying off an unknown number of developers from the League of Legends PC development team, while simultaneously pledging to increase the size of the League of Legends team.
To say I could care less about league of legends is an understatement but I am anxious about legends of runeterra’s future, it demolishes
hearthstone or magic the gathering in its core gameplay mechanics and is genuinely free to play friendly.
I could care less about league of legends is an understatement
Couldn’t. Couldn’t care less about league.
But the burning fires of my grammatical pet peeve aside its a damned reasonable choice to not care about it. My worry is how other esports companies will react to this. It’s still such a tenuous sport even with the crazy viewer numbers the League world championships bring in, and if the biggest name in esports is about to start jettisoning actual production staff from the biggest title in the room… Idk, I can see other companies overreacting.
You understood what I meant, please don’t assume I am interested in being corrected for silly grammatical mistakes : ) :) :)
That is a really good point though, and in general I think this is a dark time for video game fans seeing so many devs that made our favorite games be tossed away by the corporations that profited off them.
For one this bodes terribly for growth and innovation in gaming for the next 10 years, why go into the industry if creating one of the most sucessful esports games ever isn’t enough for a corporation to decide you are worth employing consistently? The state of things is a joke and a very destructive one at that.
Is LoR still alive? I used to play it for a few years until I just got tired of CCGs in general, but the Arcane season 2 trailer made me all nostalgic again. Back then (before the Reddit exodus) it seemed like the game would be taken down anytime soon.
I play singleplayer (I LOVE the mini roguelike mode) and co-op for the most part so I can’t speak to that authoritatively but take a look at the runeterra reddit, it is active and vibrant and it isn’t full of complaints about the meta or anything.
I mean, I don’t know active playercount stats or anything but there is clearly a solid community around it that genuinely loves the game (for very good reasons) and that is all that matters to me!
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To say I could care less about league of legends is an understatement but I am anxious about legends of runeterra’s future, it demolishes hearthstone or magic the gathering in its core gameplay mechanics and is genuinely free to play friendly.
Ugggh
Couldn’t. Couldn’t care less about league.
But the burning fires of my grammatical pet peeve aside its a damned reasonable choice to not care about it. My worry is how other esports companies will react to this. It’s still such a tenuous sport even with the crazy viewer numbers the League world championships bring in, and if the biggest name in esports is about to start jettisoning actual production staff from the biggest title in the room… Idk, I can see other companies overreacting.
You understood what I meant, please don’t assume I am interested in being corrected for silly grammatical mistakes : ) :) :)
That is a really good point though, and in general I think this is a dark time for video game fans seeing so many devs that made our favorite games be tossed away by the corporations that profited off them.
For one this bodes terribly for growth and innovation in gaming for the next 10 years, why go into the industry if creating one of the most sucessful esports games ever isn’t enough for a corporation to decide you are worth employing consistently? The state of things is a joke and a very destructive one at that.
Oh, it’s not just your pet peeve - The Queen really hates it, too!
Is LoR still alive? I used to play it for a few years until I just got tired of CCGs in general, but the Arcane season 2 trailer made me all nostalgic again. Back then (before the Reddit exodus) it seemed like the game would be taken down anytime soon.
It’s in maintenance mode with further development mostly focused on expanding the single player mode last I checked. But yeah was a great game!
Thanks! I checked the website, and apparently Ranked is still active enough that the devs are putting effort into new cards, rotations and patches: https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/game-updates/patch-5-10-notes/
Maybe I’ll try it again before November. Too bad there isn’t an active LoR community on Lemmy.
build it and they will come!
… tho maybe a generalist ccg/card battler lemmy would be a better place to start, I wonder if one of those exists yet.
Huh really? Makes me kinda want to get back into it now. Kinda Itching to give mah Demacia Elites deck another drive :>
Oh sorry, I misread the thing about new cards, but the rest holds up!
Yeah it is definitely still alive!
Good to hear! Is it still fun to play?
I burned out because of the constant pressure from battle passes and meta changes, so a more stable meta might not be all that bad.
I play singleplayer (I LOVE the mini roguelike mode) and co-op for the most part so I can’t speak to that authoritatively but take a look at the runeterra reddit, it is active and vibrant and it isn’t full of complaints about the meta or anything.
I mean, I don’t know active playercount stats or anything but there is clearly a solid community around it that genuinely loves the game (for very good reasons) and that is all that matters to me!
Thanks for the insight! StarCraft 2 is in a similar state (remaining healthy and fun despite the lack of developer support), so that’s a good sign :)