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Why League of Legends erased its own story || video essay (Patreon)

Published:
2018-09-08 08:11:03
Imported:
2026-06

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IT'S FINALLY DONE.

An exhaustive deep dive into the circumstances and conditions that led to the 2014 lore reboot of League of Legends, supplemented with some developer information and... the uncomfortable revelations of recent articles about the company. 

Enjoy! Please let me know what you think, and whether it was worth the long, long wait (it's ok if it wasn't). I'll be putting up the vote for the next video topic soon, along with a general clean-up of the Patreon to make it all easier to understand. 

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Why League of Legends erased its own story || video essay

Join the channel discord: https://discord.gg/trzcvTH (25 uses only) THIS VIDEO FUNDED AND VOTED ON BY MY SUPPORTERS ON PATREON League of Legends, the biggest video game in the world at one time, raking in the billions in the free-to-play economy, an enormous IP media property created by one of the most successful developers in the world. So... why, in 2014, did the game throw out the ENTIRE premise of its internal lore? Why does it matter if it did? And... why did League of Legends need lore to begin with? Let's do a deep dive into the origins of League of Legends, the foundations of its lore and story, and the many, many ways in which it all ended up going horribly wrong. ------------------ Curated list of responses to the Kotaku article and further reading: https://lol.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=User:RheingoldRiver/Kotaku_Article_Responses ------------------ RELEVANT SOURCES: NECRIT - Complete Timeline of League of Legends' Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CUlJKYGNG4 League of Legends beta gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72XjiRRxx_M ICOMICER - All Champions 2018: http://fav.me/dchnusm Dev Blog - Exploring Runeterra: https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/creative-spotlight/dev-blog-exploring-runeterra RIOT RAVEN - A Message to Lore Fans: Where our Lore is Going: http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1680645 Journal of Justice archive: http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Category:The_Journal_of_Justice_Issues POLYGON - The Past, Present and Future of Riot Games: https://www.polygon.com/2016/9/13/12891656/the-past-present-and-future-of-league-of-legends-studio-riot-games KOTAKU - Inside the sexist culture at Riot Games: https://kotaku.com/inside-the-culture-of-sexism-at-riot-games-1828165483 VARIETY - ‘League of Legends’ Developer Gears Up for Next Big Game: https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/riot-games-next-game-league-of-legends-1202892072/ Riot Manifesto: https://www.riotgames.com/en/who-we-are/values Benjamin Pommeraud - Quick note for people who'd like to join Riot Games about our gaming culture: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quick-note-people-whod-like-join-riot-games-our-gaming-pommeraud ----- Twitter: http://twitter.com/tbskyen Patreon: http://patreon.com/castercomix Vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLid2gDn3uhmyGLycvHOLFw

Comments

Jacob Makeup

I loved this, personally. But we're paying you, so we probably are all biased towards your content. However, I think there objective talent on display in this video. Unlike a lot of your common "daily" content, this is structured much more like a traditional video essay that you'd see from the likes of Lindsay Ellis or Innuendo Studios. You're clear and concise with your points and evidence, while still maintaining your personality and style that you exhibit in your previous videos. The art and photos used throughout do a good to great job of visually conveying what you are saying. You end the video on a "sour" note, but I think that's the point. Perhaps it's up to interpretation, but I viewed it as "this topic doesn't have a happy ending unless Riot gives it one." I can only hope some Rioters get to see this. Sometimes, it feels like they aren't listening to us, even when they send continents to major fan creators or reference memes in champions. I think this is a great video, and possibly one of my favorite video essays on youtube. I don't think it needs any corrections, but you also know more on the topic than me. If anything is wrong or misrepresented, I'm sure your sources will point that out.

TBSkyen

AFAIK a few Rioters do subscribe to the channel and watch the videos sometimes. Whether they'll see this one or not, I have no idea. Part of me kinda hopes they won't, I don't exactly pull the punches on how bad Riot messed up the lore back in the day... :/

Hannah Southerland

This was so good! Very enjoyable. Said a lot of things I feel. You spoil us. <3

Nene Thomas

I'd been watching your videos since your analysis of KDA popstar, but after this video I decided to become a patron. Great work!