The League of Legends MMO is still rumbling quietly in the backgroundꦅ, as evidenced by a name-drop from one of Riot's co-founders.
Last month, Marc 'Tryndamere' Merrill, Riot's co-founder and chief product officer, spoke about his company's culture and design philosophies on stage🌸 at the D.I.C.E. conference. Those comments were then picked up by LoL lorekeeper Necrit, who outlined Merrill's (brief) suggestion that the company's long-struggling MMO project was still alive, despite its many tribulations.
Towards the end of his speech, Me൲rrill explained that it was Riot's hope to continue "to earn the opportunity to serve [the League of Legends] community for a long 🧜time to come."
That, he says, is a sentiment with which Riot should continue to approach new ideas and 🉐projects, whether that be "getting back to fundamentals" in long-running games like LoL and Valorant, or "setting our sights on new crazy ambitious challenge𒅌s that we're trying to tackle, like finding ways to add value to the [Fighting Game Community] or even perhaps the MMO community."
The FGC is likely to be better served by Riot in the short term - Riot's two-character fighter 2KXO is steadily making its way to release. By contrast, the MMO community likely has a lot longer to waitﷺ, as the LoL MMO isn't really anywhere to be seen.
The most recent update before DICE came in November 2024, when Merrill admitted the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:LoL MMO had "a lot of momentum", and that it was the project he was spending the most time on. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询♔:That came after a "reset" at the💖 start of 2024 - four yea♓rs into the project - when Riot said it was "going dark".
In the time since its initial reveal, the LoL MMO has left several core developers, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:including its lead, who had alluded to the fact that Riot would be prepared to cancel the ♔entire proj🍎ect if it wasn't good enough. That's not necessarily the type of news you want to hear as someone with an interest in an upcoming project, especially wheꦯn we've seen almost nothing of the MMO since then.
Two years ago, almost to the day, I said that I was "starting to get really worried" about this game - and I'm not sure I feel much better about it yet.
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