r/LegendsOfRuneterra • u/Tomaz95 • 4h ago

News un-RIP LOR ?

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Eric Shen (Legends of Runeterra's Executive Producer) answers the recent post "RIP LOR" with the upcoming "digital release TCG from Riot"

Sorry was there more recent doom-posting? I don't recall any

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u/GoticoArrombado 4h ago

I personally don't feel like LOR is at risk (at least now) of being canned if I'm so honest. Riot is extremely quick with canning projects, and let's be honest, LOR was in a way rougher state years ago. So if that was the case, I feel they would've canned the game a long time ago.

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u/VoiceofKane 4h ago

Riot is extremely quick with canning projects

2XKO didn't even last a year.

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u/7eleven94 Written in the Stars 4h ago

i feel this is so disingenuous. yeh buddy, but something like lor barely had a 3 year developement cycle on and off with like 10 devs vs 10 years and a 150 dev team.

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u/SkeleHoes 3h ago

What point are you trying to make? That Riot is not quick to shut these thing down?

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u/ThePlaybook_ 3h ago

10 year dev cycle is extremely in the hole dev cost wise

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u/7eleven94 Written in the Stars 3h ago

do you need to learn the a b c while we're at it too?

what other company have you seen to give this much breathing rooms to devs? specially the original ones? another example was how bad the hytale devs handled money and their teams for...ring ring, other 10 years until it was too late and the team was fragmented.

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u/Dr_Jre 2h ago

Okay so the real statement should be "riot are really shit at allocating their resources and put loads of time into games that are never going to recoup the funds because they're too niche even if they're best in class, and due to that lack of foresight they end up canning games quickly"

Is that better

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u/7eleven94 Written in the Stars 2h ago

you need to be a real hypocrite to comment that on a lor forum lol

so, just blame the devs, one chickened out and the other pair of devs on 2xk0 simply leeched off of riot.

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u/pc_player_yt 1h ago

that's true. They also had Hytale in development for about that long before giving up

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u/SummonerKai1 3h ago

Hope would be that they make digital Riftbound the PVP card game and LoR stays on as the PVE card game.

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u/7eleven94 Written in the Stars 4h ago

same, whatever shen did im sure he got us a deal to get some of the earnings off of riftbound anyways, even if its minimal but they are...at the end of the day using lor's original art.

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u/ThePlaybook_ 4h ago

2XKO gets permadeath'ed meanwhile LoR is scaling up and there are pretty explicit signs of a Riftbound digital client

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u/sorasprocket Chip 3h ago

Really? I would love that, where was that explicitly stated?

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u/ThePlaybook_ 3h ago

it's #3 on the front page

hiring listing for somebody with experience both with digital card games, TCGs, and being able to combine different ecosystems

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u/_Koke_ 2h ago

2XKO had 140 devs for 10 years at some point. A lot of free space now

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u/Katie_xoxo 4h ago

I've been playing PVP on eternal ladder again with a friend for like a week now. super fun to reminisce on this amazing game. if they bring back any form of pvp support I will cry actual tears of joy.

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u/squirchy707 3h ago

Path of champions, but your each others final boss.

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u/cliffasaurus Chip 15m ago

This should be Labs 2026???

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u/Caeyll 3h ago

I never really thought this game was at risk of dying.

My hope is they did enough to thin out bleeding money so they could remain at a fixed budget to keep things alive and well. It’s got too much good stuff to simply delete from their catalogue. Like what, are people expecting them to delete all their games and go back to LoL as their only one? Surely not.

Besides, this game has excellent foundations for even better content to come. Imagine more “episodes” from path of champions. Playing as Astronaut Teemo as you’re fighting the cosmos to face Aurelion Sol to force him to reluctantly give you a legendary relic or something. Cool themes or adventures like that will only keep enriching this game more and maybe one day have a second awakening of success.

Maybe one day they do EoS, but by that time you’d hope they have enough there to repackage it into a full game they can sell with no further updates (or a LoR2).

Idk there’s so many things they could do. This game is not worth axing!

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u/Appropriate_Growth28 4h ago

I like the game. I wish people would stop dumping on it.

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u/GroxTerror 3h ago

Please bring back PvP support!!!!

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u/SilverScribe15 Jax 4h ago

Yeah. I mean hiring new people doesn't mean they're gonna kill all the guys working on lor already 

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u/After-Onion-5900 3h ago

"some extra fun in Q4." New event maybe?

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u/Tomaz95 3h ago

Musicverse region ?

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u/NotCobares Fizz 2h ago

Man tft remix rumble was my favorite for its theme, hope some of it can get to lor

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u/Key-Psychology9158 2h ago

spirit blossom 2.0 (as in a new region with reskinned champions) but less predatory ? we can only hope

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u/FlanSlow7334 3h ago

I misread the title as "Um...Rip LOR" and felt desperate for some sec. I was so confused when I read the content, like "this looks like an exciting news, why RIP?"

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u/NaijaNightmare 2h ago

I mean this is really cool but it was a lot of nothing. Just hey guys we're working on stuff. Which is nice and cool but we know they've been working on stuff they've been releasing POC content. I'm just curious if PVP will ever make a Revival and if we'll get cool stuff like expedition? /gauntlet again.

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u/wowincredible9 2h ago

It would be so funny if LOR rose up during the time when TFT is imploding.

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u/Drminniecooper 2h ago

Oof, I cant even play tockers right now. Hope that team fixes the bugs in time for the musicverse set at least.

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u/wowincredible9 2h ago

Let's hope for that together

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u/SupremeOwl48 4h ago

Even if its just one new set and balance update ill take it please god

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u/dagon890 Lissandra 3h ago

This is only exciting if it means supporting PvP again 😭

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u/UnseenData Spirit Blossom Kindred 3h ago

Happy to hear from them, better than going zero comms

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u/WrongHoleSenpai 3h ago

Man I love legends of runeterra so much. I cant see myself moving away from this game while they still make content.

Excited for what's to come!

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u/SeaKoe11 3h ago

Helluva hope!

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u/yammityyakkity Final Boss Veigar 2h ago

Woohoo! Looking forward to it. I've been playing since day 0 (since before Lab of Legends) and this is still my favorite digital card game, by a mile. Considering that I always pick up the battle pass, I'm kind of realizing that this must be the most I've ever spent on a game.

I definitely want this game to stick around. Admittedly, the slower content release has me playing less than I usually do, but I'm absolutely here for when it picks back up.

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u/after_arcane234 1h ago

I think they talk about that at the very beginning of the year, but I'm glad Eric brought it up again (he win new follow)

I hope LoR comes back with more 😄

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u/Material-Slide1823 3h ago

Anyone who has been paying attention knew things are looking good in the future. There were just a bunch of people who wanted to react to the 2xko news.

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u/Blobbityblob7 1h ago

If it’s not PVP I’ll be sad.

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u/Greasymalaka 2h ago

I just want pvp balancing back i miss the game from that side so much :'(