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>>732293453
briar is best league girl

>>732293453
Its funny to me that they straight up made 2XKO in to a touch of death long ass combo game when this type of game is basically hated by the casual audience the most its what killed MK 1.
And now they are already planing on completely redesigning the game to be shorter combo based.

>>732293453
I sure fucking hope so, its been spiritually dead long before
>Arc*de

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>>732293453
>The reason Arcane Season 2 was so bad was due to Riot writing Season 2 while Fortiche wrote Season 1
That explains the dogshit designs of Viktor and Warwick.

>>732293453
don't forget
>LoR is in limbo until a replacement is released
>riot forge shutting down

>>732293453
They hired a finance bro CEO and he sucked away whatever soul was left in that company

they shouldve made a platform fighter instead of a tag fighter

>>732293453
Who is pic related? To me she’s just a semen demon that I have used, but I never saw the vidys related content

>>732294161
It's Jinx from the hit show Arcane(tm)

>>732293453
The only good thing about league is Ahri and Sona

>>732293453
I off handedly watched some esports vod recently, since i used to like to.
Man wtf is going on with the game?
Theres so many layers and extra complexity because i assume its bend over backwards balancing to keep the meta as is.
Like towers have plates that grow crystals and shit? I guess to discourage lane swapping? But then theres a million comeback mechanics too?

>>732293453
Lol is the most played video game on PC

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>>732293453
Imshallah may this company burn to the ground. I have watch them flounder for over a decade, the chickens are coming home to roost finally.

>>732293453
Season 2 was fucking trash.

>>732293453
>let's make a new fighting game in a genre where its players already declared they hate our ideas
>let's make an MMO (a notably declining and saturated genre)
What was Riot's thought process here? Did they think they can just shoot anywhere and get a major hit

>>732294209
And miss fortune

>>732294326
it's impressive how bad season 2 is compared to 1

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I miss him /v/ros

>>732293453
>2XK0 is a failure
What the fuck were they even thinking when making that game
They tried to appeal to the arcane normalfags despite tag fighters being a niche inside of a niche
They refused to appeal to LoL players
They didn't make any of the girls sexy (poolparty Arhi wearing a one piece swimsuit lmao) unlike every single other fighting game
The game was doomed to flop

>>732293761
>Hey, guys! You know this chimera/werewolf champion?
>What if… it was just a buff guy instead?
I cannot comprehend the thought process behind Warwick’s design. They obviously wanted Viktor to have an arcane theme, so I can at least understand it (despite it being dogshit).

I'm glad I never watched the show from everything I hear about it nowadays.

Is this leebait?

>>732294834
literally the best character i the show ans gets killed at the end of S1

>>732293453
i don't know why they keep trying after making the single worst game ever created

>>732296552
Oh but we get to see his alternate universe counterpart in S2 who forgave Vander for trying to kill him and now they have lots of sex

I liked season 1, but whoever was in charge of 2 was a zoomer who made sure to hamfist a music video on every single episode until the point it was unbearable to watch and I just skipped those segments.
The whole plot involving warwick felt forced as fuck.

>>732293615
I don’t know why anyone still believes that Riot know how to design good games. League was a mediocre game released at the perfect time and they have made precisely zero noteworthy games since then (LoR was ok I guess). I legitimately struggle to think of a studio that’s less equipped to develop an MMO.

>>732293453
I liked the first season but didn't even end up watching the second one since it was apparently a lot worse and it also wouldn't have the best character >>732294834

>>732294248
Maybe a 10 to 15 years ago

>>732293453
>Arcande Season 2 flopped
[citation needed]

>>732297721
riot's boss and creator said so, that it didn't made as much as they expected (money and views) and they went way overbudget

>>732294206
>(tm)
Newfags can't ™

>>732294604
It's like Twin Peaks season 3.
They took everything that was unique and fun about the first season, just trashed it and made it completely different.

>>732297063
>hey guys look it's that character you really liked last season
>look he's here!
>now he's objectively good and also all clean and nice, but it's him
>plz watch our show

>>732294596
Her too
I miss lewd Sonaposting

>>732297090
>The whole plot involving warwick felt forced as fuck.
Cause it goes nowhere and only serves to emotionally torture some characters with Vander's reanimated corpse

Also Ambessa sees Warwick and is like "Wow, that thing is WAY more interesting than that Hextech shit I could just outfit my loyal soldiers who aren't insane rage monsters with." She just kind of stops caring about the entire reason she came for a while until Warwick explodes and then goes back to plan B.

Then, even though she hates mages, she immediately allies with a mage so he can mindcontrol her entire army to make them fight better. I don't think she was intentionally written to be stupid but...

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>>732293453
>Arcande Season 2 flopped
>Kill Silco
>the only interesting part of season 1
>your shit flops

>>732293453
Season 2 was a huge hit what is this bad bait

>>732293453
Didn't even watch it because I heard it's gay. I don't watch gay shit

>>732298928
If it wasn't for the fact season 1 ended a half second before an explosion you'd think they killed him because the story they wanted to tell was over

>>732299002
They have a lesbian sex scene immediately after a character learns that her sister fully intends to and has the means to kill herself

When asked why they wrote that because it makes her look like a psycho, the writers stated that straight people get to have pointless sex scenes and they wanted some sort of parity

>>732293453
I refused to watch Arcane season 2 because I loved season 1 and the ending was very fitting. Rito should've left Jinx out of s2.

>>732297090
Warwick was SUPPOSED to be good but they did some wacky shit with him for whatever reason.

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>>732293453
Don't forget Hytale, anon.

>>732299698
Funny because that's what they did for the most of S2, and that's also one of the biggest reasons why S2 sucks.

>>732293453
they are a bit like EPIC, sitting on a mountain of LOL cash and no idea what to do with it

>>732293453
hopefully. there's only so many faggots, dykes, and girlbosses the sodomy zealots can retcon or shove into the game before it collapses in on itself due to how fucking lame it is

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>>732293761
Nah, its simpler, Season 1 ended with all good characters dead, it would be like Game of Thrones losing all the based old dudes from the series on the first season and second season just being around the kids.

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>two weeks more!

>>732293453
Arcane season 1 wasn't that good and I'm tired of people fellating it so much.

>>732293453
I lost my Jinx Midriff folder but if they don't go all in on the sexappeal they might as well bury themselves now

>>732293453
jinx goes to demacia and go on adventures with lux trying to find morgana and kayle

>>732301420
Wrong opinion

>Arcane S1 storyboarders created their own studio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ9duRG5Hrg
I'm waiting for some series from them

>>732293453
>every single character became worse (except maybe Jayce)
>scientist guy working for the greater good becomes a literal AI god
>councillor girl suddenly becomes a literal goddess
>wholesome police girl that's good with a gun becomes literally Hitler and also a hand to hand combat prodigy
>street smart nigger boy becomes literally Einstein and can time travel
>dad figure who died like 10 years ago comes back and he's some kind of steampunk werewolf
>Jinx becomes just what the fuck man

I hate how they niggerfied Ekko
Before it was a dark skin boy with straight white hair, now it's a wannabe rapper gangsta nigger with the niggerest threaded hair

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>don't play LoL
>mostly enjoyed S1 arcane
Should I even give S2 a go or is it better off as a single season experience?

I'm glad Season 2 was so bad that it ruined the show for most of you.
Serves you right for consuming goyslop. I hope all your favorite shows get raped harder.

>>732301420
It was THAT good.
More like S2 is not THAT bad, on its own, but it absolutely sucks donkey balls because it exists as a continuation of S1.

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Season 2 was so insanely disappointing that it gave me trust issues. Season 1 is one of the best fucking thing ever made and season 2 is just this cynical, cobbled together mess designed to sell Mel and her mom as champs.

>>732302974
I'm happy it ruined S1.

>>732293453
It's almost impressive how whenever they accidentally make something halfway decent and balanced, they immediately mistake the input of 24/7 online living social abominations, making it their new personality for the next few months, as the reason for its popularity, when it was really all the quiet normalfags, who then also quietly lose all interest and move on, when the next installment of it is 5 "people" getting a high-budget version of their tumblr fanfiction.

>>732303093
We know that you're a miserable pile of shit and would prefer that everything around you was as miserable, anon. No need to point that out.

>>732303016
S1 is french miseryporn kino
S2 is americanized marvelslop

>>732303251
I haven't watched shows or movies in over a decade because of how fucked the entire media is. If you still consume it then it's literally your fault when you get disappointed.

>>732297457
>wouldn't have the best character
It does and it retroactively ruins him.

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Crazy nasty stinky sweaty Arcane Jinx sex

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>>732293453
>hecking lesbinaninos ruins cait and vi
>mel gets kidnapped into the superpowers arc nobody gives a shit about
>jinx spends the entire season fucking around with her therapy orphan only to go back to the same place she was at the beginning of the season
>ekko gets put on a bus for the entire season to get his league powers (not-schizo powder was cute tho)
>victor forgetting all his S1 plot to become magic jesus
>vander
>zaunites showing up to help the pilties after getting the gaza treatmentSeason 2 was fucking ass, jayce and the doctor were the only good parts

>>732302593
Don't watch it. It ruins everything that happens in season one and all the characters while adding nothing.

>>732303692
The fucking Mel arc Jesus Christ. What was that in service of? She should have exploded

You can just probably get away with thinking that Viktor was mindcontrolled by the hex core. Hell his assistant's ghost was probably the hex core just fucking with him. I mean just look at the fucking thing it LOOKS EVIL

>>732303898
Thanks for making me care about fucking Heimerdinger and then surgically removing his character after he ran out of shit to do in season 1. My man was just a prop for Ekko

>>732296552
Episode 7 was by far the best one.

>>732293453
>Arcane Season 2 flopped
critically, yea, it was a disaster. viewer-wise i think it did fine thoygh
>>LoL and Valorant losing players
not remotely close to being true
>2XK0 is a failure
getting more popular than ever and becoming the next big thing in the fgc
>MMO in development hell
yes but ghostcrawler is a retard so that had a lot to do with it

what now troon

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>>732303898
....T-thank you?

>>732303898
This. It obliterates every single character. Every one. Even the ones that died in s1. It's a holocaust of writing.

>>732304714
>Even the ones that died in s1.
It's actually impressive

Hey, did you know that Silco knew Vi and Powder's mother (if not her father too) before he turned evil?

I could only stomach two episodes of S2 before I had to call it quits. It was just so bad, so confusing and soulless, I had to drop it or it would ruin the memory of S1 for me.

>>732297852
but that was already true for season 1, they lost money with that too.

The only thing about season 2, and I mean the ONLY thing, that I liked was the final shot of Vi and Cait being happy. I hated pretty much everything else about their shit relationship but at least the ending was sweet.
Everything else about the season was insulting to the memory of the first.

>>732294243
Tha crystal is just to speed up the game, its irrelevant

>>732293453
>2XK0 is a failure
It literally just came out. Give it a month at least

Arcane was too ambitious.

>>732305320
Losing half a million while advertising your highly profitable game
>vs
Losing 50 millions while adveryising your slightly less profitable game
HMMM TRULY THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING

>>732305464
but league was more profitable in 2024 than 2021

>>732304843
That one never struck me as odd. Vander was the pseudo leader of Zaun and took in Vi and Powder. Not really a surprise he knew their parents and Silco was his right hand man.
Making him Warwick was a stupid idea to begin with though.

>>732305718
...THEN WHAT THE FLYING FUCK WOULD THEY CARE ABOUT THE SHOW LOSING MONEY THEN

>>732303016
>>732303898
>>732304714
Huh. Sounds like what they did with Joker.
I wonder if they did this one on purpose too, or if it was sheer accident

>>732293453
For that to be the case, Tencent would need to go beyond bankrupt. so long as Tencent exists, League will remain, even subsidised by other Tencent games, like Path of Exile.

>>732305850
i mean it still sucks to lose money either way. they are a business after all. even if they made something special with season 1 they're not gonna say "yea let's just do that 100 times and lose all our money just to make some good shows"

>>732305929
fucking kek that you think league would EVER need to be subsidized by fucking path of exile of all things, and not that league would have to lift all that deadweight in the case that it happens

>>732305850
do you think Xbox and Sony don't care about losing money on console sales? They do, but that's the loss leader. Businesses have loss leaders everywhere and having a massive foothold in a media sphere you were previously not in, even at a loss financially, is still huge. Capital is more than just money lost/gain.

>>732305947
>>732306662
They wouldn't double down on the obviously-loss-inducing concepts then.

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>>732299685
What makes a writer this retarded?

>>732306854
>sony wouldn't keep making playstations then
this is how stupid you sound

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League will never die. It's just too cemented in gaming culture.

>>732306017
correct, I don't believe that's the case, because its provably true that it shits money like a fat-ass shits explosive diahrea after eating a large order of Taco Bell

>>732307443
Yeah. Actually spending time having sex with your girlfriend in a dirty jailcell while your sister runs off to kill herself isn't actually a pointless sex scene.

It makes her look like she doesn't actually give a shit

>>732304159
>The fucking Mel arc
what the fuck was even the point of this shit?
she was a cool character, just a normal woman who made her way to the council and gained power and influence. then she became a fucking witch or goddess. she didn't know how to use her powers and then suddenly she was the best holy(?) magician ever.

>>732303898
>>732304714
What the FUCK actually happened?

Did everybody who worked on season one just left?
The first one was so good. Every scene was pertinent. All the fight scenes were cool as fuck and meaningful. I don't remember a single fight scene in season two. Also, they put like 12 different songs and they kept adding those scenes with different drawing styles but they were retarded and gay.

>>732297863
it's the only alt code I know

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>>732293453
>Had almost a decade to capitalize on the undisputed popularity of the LoL IP by releasing more games and anime
>Now, now when Fortnite, Roblox and whatever the FOTM is are overshadowing the hell out of LoL is when Riot decides to make a move
>Proceeds to release a fighting game in an oversaturated market and a woke animated series
It's honestly amazing.

>>732295250
I thought he was gradually going to become a werewolf

>>732293453
I rewatched Arcane literally this week and season 2 has some cool music video scenes but the entire thing was so bad. An entire episode wasted on the black guy multiverse crap which nobody cared about, the whole boring ending fight. Zero effort into the writing. The animation and look is great but yeah, they really fumbled S2

The only good part of season 2 was Jayce stuck in the post apocalyptic world while going insane. But they kept cutting those cool parts to switch to niggerboy dancing with Jinx in his utopia dimension.

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>>732301620
>new studio
>this soiface was intentional wasn't it

>>732297090
>zoomer who made sure to hamfist a music video on every single episode
millennials did that, anon. millennials. zoomers were not in charge of arcane

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>>732293453
They deserve it for fucking up a golden opportunity with Arcane S2 and abandoning Riot Forge.

WHAAAT the garbage woke dei shit were the terrible parts of both seasons?? say it ain't so

>>732309185
Yes but whoever wrote it, the targer market were zoomers.

>>732293453
valorant having been as successful as it was, it 's one of those sad things that made videogames worse.

>>732293453
This is literally a meme face from GR15 drawn with Jinx. You aren't sneaky.

>>732298928
anon, the problem is not that they killed Silco. But the fact that they killed all the plot surrounding Silco for a generic "we must band together to defeat the big bad and his sky beam", also lesbians.

they are better are being blizzard than blizzard

but yeah there's no innovation

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>>732309519
Oh yeah? How would you know?

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>>732293453
>waste an entire episode trying to appeal to India
No wonder Season 2 flopped

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Didn't watch the show because Mundo and blitzcrank aren't in it

>>732309789
and that's a good thing, dotard

>>732308112
I was surprised that valorant got as popular as it did. Search and Destroy really is an evergreen gamemode.

>>732309662
donut ask me that.

>>732293453
>MMO in development hell

Tbf all their games take fucking forever to make.

Valorant took 9 years. 2XKO took close to 10 years. Legends of Runeterra took 9 years. Their ARPG is currently 8-9 years with no info on it in 6 years. Their only quick game was TFT (and League I guess).

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>>732310263
I see

>>732293453
S1 was good with some bad moments
s2 was bad with some good moments

>>732301420
This. Edgerunners kicks the shit out of Arcane.

Arcane is for women and retards (read:women) who stand up and clap in front of their television every time they see homosexuals or the mer re reference of homosexuality. There is nothing of any note in Arcane in terms of story.

>>732312519
>some good moments
Like what?

>>732293453
RIP in piss for ruining Jinx, Vi and many others characters with drama and lgbt turd

>>732296552
That's why he's so good. If they kept dragging him around after the end of his arc it would've sucked more.

>>732293453
Screenshot this
Project T (Destiny Valorant) will be a bigger flop than Marathon

>>732297852
>they went way overbudget
You can say that again
Such pretty lights and effects but I don't know what the FUARK is going on

>>732310684
Riot is still hiring for the ARPG

>>732297420
For 2XKO, it's just a bunch of FGC veterans pandering to a niche genre inside fighting games for the sake of "the old MvC2 days" and "tag team anime fighter Evo moments". Nobody genuinely wants to play even if I like that. I just don't think there's enough people interested in that these days.

>>732293819
Riftbound is getting a DCG?

>>732315347
it's one of the biggest games in the fgc right now lol. it is growing immensely popular

>>732315121
Yes but they haven't spoken about it in years. The version they showed off in 2019 was cancelled according to ex-employees, so now it's probably nothing like what was shown back then.

>>732293453
wait a minute.... those teeth and expression...
THAT IS TWIL- ACK!

>>732301339
The IP has like two hundred main characters.

>>732315798
>it is immensely popular now
They promised to overhaul the game a week after launch and in the middle of day 1 for Frosty Fausting. That doesn't show confidence and I like the game. The LoL devs should be focusing on bringing the cool character themes instead of ruining the game listening to pro players.

>>732315895
2XKO got rebooted twice, that should not be a worry.

>>732316098
nobody except fgc players like tag games anyway because they're fucking god awful. if they wanted to make it appeal to casual gamers they would've booted the cannon brothers years ago when they decided to rework the entire game and waste even more of everyone's time

>>732316208
The Cannon brothers are proving themselves to be hacks like Tony Huynh. They got Riot to pay their friend for a decade without supervision.

>>732293606
Should just do a series about her and that rookie janitor that she broke out with.

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>>732293453
>>Arcande Season 2 flopped
They deserved it for killing my daughterwife.

>>732316208
A platform fighter with Riot's budget would have been an easy slam dunk.

>>732294087
Pool Party died so there could be another dogshit Destiny clone with Valorant characters.

>>732293606
Looks stinky

>>732316691
she was annoying and it was obvious she was going to die

>>732317083
yea well unfortunately riot is way too hands off and permissive with stuff like this for better or for worse and with 2xko it was very much for worse

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>>732293453
Hope so. How much to buy the rights to one character?
>>732294882
What are fighting game companies, in general, thinking? There are like 4-5 fighters coming out and they are all tag.

>>732317083
This is what pisses me off. Riot allowed Legends of Runeterra and 2XKO but a Smash game and Hytale were too much. And even after all these fuck ups, they're moving forward with the Valorant MMOFPS (Project T)

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>>732317208
She was the best character.

>>732317754
She is barely a character

>>732317632
Besides Tokon and 2XKO, the other games are cheap to make.

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>>732318054
She is THE CHARACTER.

>>732293606
Tits too big

>>732307569
Your gaming culture maybe.

>>732318424
>t. valvetard

>>732318572
Valve is worse than Riot when it comes to making games

>>732318305
The nothing character, right

>>732293453
Declare Jinx to be 18 and start producing official pornography of her
Add nude skins only for 18+ players (and only for Jinx)

>>732294560
Their thinking process is they believe they can become Blizzard and Capcom in a world when LoL becomes irrelevant. Riot management is completely delusional and detached from reality.

>>732293615
2XK0 is just a great example of why you need to reign your devs in. Look at the most popular fighting game (SF6) and hire people to make a copy of that. Why the actual fuck would they go for a genre that's a niche within a niche. Free league of legends fighting game with a real name, 20+ starting roster and 1v1. Easy money.

>>732319030
>they believe they can become Blizzard
They are doing a good job so far, give at a few more years and their games will be dead

>>732309789
Same with me but Zac or anyone remotely interesting.

>>732319058
Rising Thunder started as a SF4 clone when SF5 was floundering, they scrapped that for a tag team fighter because they thought everyone would play duos.

>>732319154
Tencent should look into dumping Riot to Microsoft.

This is a Lesson Zero reference.

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>>732294560
MMO is the most playable genre and will thus be the most played.

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>>732318883
She's everything there is.

>>732319218
They really should have looked at other games which had duo fighters and seen how no one will play that shit because it's incredibly frustrating playing 2v2 in a fighting game.

>>732293453
Finished the show 2 days ago. Season 2's narrative pivot was quite something, and had some questionable choices like the Mel and Vander plotlines, but I still really enjoyed it because it was fun.

>>732319417
2v2 worked in all Smash games and they scrapped Pool Party. Riot is managed by morons.

>>732319297
Playable to what?

Project T sounds Marathon tier flop

>>732319058
>Look at the most popular fighting game (SF6) and hire people to make a copy of that.
SNK did that and COTW sold like shit.

>>732293453
I think season 2 in a vacuum is OK, but needing to follow-up from season 1 made it feel awful because it revealed the writers didn't plan for jack shit. Many such cases. tragic.

>>732320138
COTW was boycott by the pro players and it worked. Extremely sad because there's less money in fighting games.

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>>732293453
Season one was so good man I don't know what the Hell happened

>>732319058
I think you’re correct.
Gee they must be retarded.

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>>732314678
Yeah, as disappointed as I was with season 2 I think the first works as a tragic standalone story through Silco and his realization of why Vander did what he did, and how the cycle of tragedy is inevitably doomed to continue through the daughters of the two men who were too late to ever be able to have back the brotherhood they lost.

really liked season 1
watched 2 last episodes on a sidescreen while doing something else. was too dogshit to spend time on.

hm, smells like missed cheese

>>732319694
Is that English?

>>732293453
The fact that Riot hasn't remade league on a stable and modern engine all this time shows how retarded and shortsighted the top brass is. The fact that models like Zilean and Gragas still exist the way they do in 2026 will forever be a mystery to me, or that bugs galore plague the game to such an extent every patch is straight up insane.

How the fuck did they ever think to invest in a new game, a fighting game at that before investing in the game that made them billions.

>>732321126
Why would they do that when it's making billions
Did you even read your own post

>>732321340
To keep making billions in the long run, things become obsolete with time. Also they got kneecapped hard because developing anything on the 2006 big rigs engine doesn't allow you to be as creative or experimental as you like.

You want to try a new game mode, sorry, development is extremely limited in scope and 10 time harder than it needs to be. Also no matter what bugs bugs and more bugs.

>>732321126
What would you have them do, write a new engine? That's almost never required; you can edit and add to what you have.

>>732321126
>>732321340
>>732321616
>>732321647
they are though lol

>>732293453
>Old league private server is a matter of when, not if it happens

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>wtf i thought product would be popular forever??

>>732321647
>What would you have them do, write a new engine?

Two options, either make an inhouse engine from scratch to suit your needs or use an existing one. Either choice is better than what they are doing right now. Money and time was never a problem for them. It's just inexcusable.

>>732321725
They just announced they will, see you in 2028. Maybe.

>>732293453
Don't forget about
>have a mincraft clone, hytale, 90% finished
>give up on it and sell all the work and IP back to the original owners
>they finish the game, release it, and it's a massive success

>>732297420
>League was a mediocre game
This cope has got to stop. We're coming up on 2 decades of complete dominance over online gaming. It's got more addicts queueing at 4am than entire genres get during their all time peaks.

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>>732293453
maybe they should stop making generic adult human characters

>>732321863
they announced it for next year retard-kun

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>>732321803
I can't imagine League of Legends will be popular forever. It's not some living world.

>>732322113
And you believed them. How is the MMO doing by the way, anytime now, right?

>>732322042
don't engage with valvetards

>>732322042
I bet it gets more players at 4am than the entirety of the FGC in Evo season

>>732322198
oh sorry did they announce a release date for the mmo? did they give a hard time frame? did they continually delay it after promising it'll come out this year or the year before or anything? no? that's what i thought

>>732322198
They're making a Valorant MMOFPS first.

>>732293453
go woke go broke

>>732322253
No hard release date so I guess a 2060 release date would be timely in your eyes. When it comes to rolling out shit, let alone at a decent enough state Riot has always been complete dogshit.

>>732322042
It's a moba.
Of course it's going to have a huge playercount. So do MMOs and Gachas. Are you going to tell me that Genshin Impact and World of Warcraft are also artisanal 10/10 must-plays?
You got skinnerboxed, my guy.

>>732322417
WoW was at launch

>>732322403
just concede you got btfo because you tried to equate an in-development and "technically secret" project with a confirmed release date action plan for the next season of league. i'm sorry i had to embarrass you like that but your pretentious faggotry was a little much

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>>732322417
oh right let's look at the other mobas doing really well and having millions of players per day!
oh..

>>732322546
DOTA 2 is super botted

>>732322510
you sure did man, I don't know how I will sleep at night. just remember this when you get a fistfull of nothing next year.

>>732293453
The entire reason Arcane Season 2 flopped is because they made Jinx look like she hit the wall and no longer like a sexy child

>>732322640
oh i sure will!

>>732322578
I mean, so is LoL
Have you played recently?
You get a constant spam of friend requests from random level 10-15 bot accounts trying to scam you.
Like at least once an hour, you get one friend request. You block it, and you get a new one an hour later

>>732322546
>it can't be a skinnerbox if lots of people are addicted to it!

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>>732293453
>two more weeks valvetrannixisters!

>>732322818
you said "it's a moba of course it will have a ton of players"
no, that's not the case at all lol. it has a ton of players because it's a good game. the other mobas are either dead or nowhere remotely close to league's popularity, because they aren't as good

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>>732303606
God that fucking body. Tighttttt

>>732323095
too bad they changed her face and overall mannerisms in season 2

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>>732322764
wait wait wait wait, anon-kun, I think I have news for you. that's on me for taking your retarded claim of a new engine at face value. I only saw the vandril vid and thought it was the case, guess not.

>>732322198
Well the MMO (even taking the reset into account) has only been in development for 5 years at this point so there's no universe where it'd have released already, even if they didn't reset it.

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>>732323117
It was the exact same model, you're right about the mannerisms, though ;_;

>>732323158
yea, i know. they further talked about how it essentially is a new engine and they're trying really hard to preserve the current feel of league and not screw anything up. but yea i'm sure this totally blows me out of the fucking water and wins you the argument. oh wait, no, you're still a retarded embarrassment. sorry

>>732323189
didn't say they would, I only said that their development cycles on everything they do are always scuffed to hell and back. if they say 2 years for anything read 4 minimum.

>>732323158
Necrit made a video about it and made it clear it wasn't going to affect the gameplay besides moving the client into a modern engine.

>>732323208
it's not. the face is different. idk if this is true at all (though it does explain it) but i've seen it said that they have two face models, one rounder+softer, and one longer, more angular, etc.. one for "powder" and one for jinx. it's very obvious they use the older and more angular one in season 2 all the time. she looks fairly different

>>732323252
>they further talked about how it essentially is a new engine
>We are not moving league to a new engine

yep yep so true sister

>>732323189
I'm still mad they're doing that fucking Valorant MMOFPS.

>>732323294
didn't see his vid, only saw vandril talking about the announcement they made, so when retard-kun over here said that they announced a new engine I believed him, should have known better than to trust /v/

>>732293453
people still play the game for some reason, so probably not.

do we have access to their financials? or is everyone just guessing

>>732323460
/v/irgins lie, anon

>>732293453
tencent own them, so if tencent feel like it they can just fire everyone at riot and shut down all riot's games

they could also subsidize riot and subsidize all of riot's games if they felt like it too

it all depends on what the chinese want to do

>>732323523
They're overhauling 2XKO a week after launch in the middle of the first American major.

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>>732301723
dont forget how they turned Heimerdinger into a banjo playing hippie

>>732323523
>people still play the game for some reason

China for the most part and who knows why these bugmen cling to it so much

>do we have access to their financials? or is everyone just guessing

Don't think they release anything on that so I would imagine guessing. People speculate on numbers based on twitch viewership and the such but you can never have too clear of an image. Also many canceled/delayed projects doesn't paint too good of a picture.

>>732321737
threads about that were killed faster than pizza

>>732308016
they wrote S2 during Zoom calls. Its real look it up.

>>732323095
looks like a crack whore

>>732323817
Riot uses some bullshit criteria for what counts as views.

>>732323328
>i've seen it said that they have two face models, one rounder+softer, and one longer, more angular, etc
Ive seen that too. But wasnt that just for S1, depending on the scene?

>>732323928
you mean twitch? cause riot has nothing to do with view count numbers

>>732324025
No, even more convoluted numbers than Twitch stats.

>>732323604
Hard at work. Good to see! :)

>>732324217
then you have to mean worlds, msi and other tournaments views reported by Riot. Something on a news site that says "X amount of people watched worlds 2025". If so yeah, ofc they inflate numbers, but originally I was talking about everything, tournaments and streamers and even content creators I guess like youtube.

>>732293453
>Arcane Season 2 flopped
Because their writing team are retarded (and also changed)
>LoL and Valorant losing players
Of course they are, nobody likes the games.
>2XK0 is a failure
It took eons to finally come out, launching with a measily 6 playable characters (12 actually but you need to buy the other 6 lol)
>MMO in development hell
It's been established the devs are retarded.

>>732324217
no, retard, you're thinking of china's "popularity index" counts which don't count in viewcounts
cope harder though

>>732324398
No, this is bad. MOBA changes in fighting games don't work. Namco drove everyone away from Tekken 8.

>>732324482
My bad, I meant to say what this anon said >>732324432

>>732324434
MMO devs are Asmongold and Esfand viewers, maybe tomorrow you could spot them donating to DSP.

TFT is still good at least
And lol's arena mode was great, I don't understand why they didn't make it a permanent mode

>>732324652
LTMs are used to drive up engagement, not to make the game fun.

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>>732293453
When will these jackasses at RIOT make LoL: Classic
I want servers for every 5 champions released stating at 30 champions
Bring back the old maps and their blocky designs
Champs with low polygon counts

Absolute out of touch retards are running the company into the ground
Kind of shocking actually

>>732324756
A literal hype beast shoe merchant runs Riot Games.

>>732324756
they are retarded enough that I wouldn't hold my breath for it. how can you not learn though with blizzard getting mogged on the demand and then creation of wow classic?

>we won't do wow classic and you don't want that either

they do it anyway and cash in big. riot refuses to listen to their playerbase despite that and shut down unofficial projects like chronosphere or whatever it was called

>>732324741
> reinstall the game to play arena with a friend
> riot removes the mode
> we both uninstall
Well done riot...

>>732323328
They made her look older, which destroyed to the appeal of the entire show

>>732324652
>>732324741
they did make it a permanent mode though, valvetards

>>732324990
I looked it up and you're kinda right
> they stated in 2024 it would never become a permanent mode
> they brought it back for at least 12 months in June 2025

>>732324990
Was talking about all LTMs, good on Riots for making one permanent

>>732323095
I love men with a bad case of the gyno so much bros

>>732293615
wait, so I learned all the combos for nothing?

>>732326273
Yes, MOBA balancing schedule could destroy the game

>>732326345
so theyve been working on the game for almost a decade in complete silence, made only 12 characters, and the game is broken anyway?

>>732293453
the mmo and the deadlock clone they are working on is their last hope

icefrog handed them the blueprint just about if riot can actually pull it off

>>732327219
Yes and those are the reasons everyone started freaking out about the state of the game.

>>732327343
Riot is working on a Deadlock clone? They're working on a Destiny clone.

>>732293453
Play Them's Fightin' Herds instead of 2XKO

>>732327343
kek what is it with this company? why are they so creatively bankrupt they need to copy instead of making I don't know? ORIGINAL GAME?

>>732328170
They must please their Chinese overlords

>>732327393
yes tencent allegedly allocated 200mill for the project

>>732328170
tencent cant allow valve to take over that space

>>732328465
Wouldn't it be cheaper for Tencent to fund a Paragon reboot?

>>732328606
its not the league ip sadly

>>732328684
Tim Sweeney is spiteful enough to make that happen to get a win over Valve.

>>732301339
nah they had a good way to keep the story going with the roster:

>Silco's death opens a power vaccum with urgot trying to fill it in, so they can keep their Noxus/Black Rose teasings

>Viktor is mangled as hell and does a 180 going full "the flesh is weak"

The end is Jayce v Viktor were both got good arguments

>>732317754
I still remember bursting out laughing when the chingchong music started blaring while he blew himself up (all for nothing)

>>732293453
Shouldn't have murked Slico desu. Fuck Piltover, fuck the nigger nation and FUCK Jynx.

They're bankrolled by Tencent and whales with crippling addiction. They've made enough money off their new viego gacha skin to singlehandely fund the next year of development for the riot MMO.

>>732301339
>not setting it during the failed Zaun revolution with a young Silco and Vander before they went their separate ways
The kino that could've been.

>>732328750
That dude is like an annoying chihuahua that thinks he's in the big leagues with the likes of Gabe.

>>732293453
>that face
>clock is ticking
... TWILIGHT SPARKLE!