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"Many a brave knight are going to die, on the Grail quest," Riot Co-founder Marc Merrill says of its plan to build the next great MMO. "But fuck it, it’s The Grail, so let’s go." #RiotGames #MMORPG #GamingNews #RiotMMO www.pcgamesn.com/league-of-le...

pcgamesn.comRiot Games knows its MMO is a big risk. "But f*** it, it's The Grail, so let's go."The Riot MMO is a risk, studio Co-founder Marc Merrill acknowledges at PAX West, but the push to meet expectations is "a worthy quest."

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Wait I… I thought they were making a literal game where you seek the grail… they’re actually using it as a metaphor to justify laying off staff if the game doesn’t pan out? What the fuck.

Bro, they couldn't even believe in 2xko, it's pretty clear they had intended on killing it at launch. They let their only CCG drop off because they couldn't be bothered, and released a physical CCG that looks like ass. This company is garbage.

"Every AAA game is trying to take up 100% of players' time with game passes & stuff, so we thought we'd join that chaos. If it fails we can blame the players for not sacrificing thousands of hours and hundreds of dollars to start over, rather than execs for making stupid decisions."

even in a good context this would be a weird and flippant thing to say (and like, not even remotely cool, what the fuck is this grail quest metaphor, just talk normal bro) but considering riot's history of abusing its developers this is absolutely shithead status

There is literally only one way the MMO succeeds and it is by making it the only way to play LoL. And like, you have to get out of the starter town to even hear about the League of Legends, and to gain entry you need to level your character and fight three Dungeon Bosses and only in the city of

i know this isn't the point but that character design is really fugly. maybe they should try more sustainable practices and see what happens

personally I'm thrilled by the prospect of a lowest-common-denominator version of world of warcraft with titty gacha character design sensibilities that the company gave 200 people PTSD to make