March 21, 2024 at 3:00 pm –
The first vision for a LoL MMO was in the planning for three years and has now been completely scrapped. After the departure of executive producer Ghostcrawler, there is a complete reboot.
At the end of 2020, former Blizzard developer Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street announced work on a LoL MMO. Ghostcrawler was the executive producer of Riot Project at the time. However, there has been no real information about a Riot MMO in the League of Legends world in the coming years. However, based on the executive producer's statements, one should have expected a long development time.
At the beginning of March 2023, Ghostcrawler left Riot. A good year after leaving, the team is completely reorganizing itself around the LoL MMO. As Marc Merrill, co-founder of Riot, announced on Twitter, Work on the LoL MMO has restarted. The game's new executive producer is Fabrice residential apartments.
Three years of planning So they left. According to Mark Merrill, the first vision of the LoL MMO was very close to what players already knew from the world of Runeterra.
“We don't think you all want an MMO you've played before, just with a layer of Runeterra. In order to truly live up to Runeterra's potential and meet the incredibly high expectations of players around the world, we need to create something that truly feels like a significant evolution of the genre.” ” Merrill said on Twitter.
So the entire project is re-planned again, However, we cannot expect any real information in the coming months and perhaps years.
As the Riot co-founder wrote on Twitter, it will I haven't heard anything about a LoL MMO in a long time – “Maybe even several years.”. According to Merrill, the decision to reboot was made some time ago. Full confidence now lies in the new executive producer, who has already handled major projects for Riot, BioWare and EA. What do you think about LoL MMO taking so long in development?
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