In December 2020, Riot’s vp of IP and leisure Greg Avenue revealed, with completely no pomp or circumstances in any way, that the studio is engaged on a League of Legends MMO. Riot later confirmed his just-tweeted-it-out announcement, though it appeared to counsel that the challenge was nonetheless within the very early levels at that time, saying that Avenue “will probably be engaged on a massively multiplayer on-line roleplaying sport.”
Now we are able to get a considerably nearer take a look at what Riot has in retailer, courtesy of worldofruneterra.com, which ends up in a recruiting web site for Riot’s MMO. It additionally confirms that the wheels are simply beginning to activate growth.
“No, you’re not dreaming, we’re engaged on an MMORPG primarily based within the League universe!” it says. “We all know MMOs take lots of people to create, and we’ll want a fairly large raid group if we wish to convey Runeterra to life. That is the place you are available. We’ll periodically put up new roles, however proper now we don’t have any particular openings on the group—we’re simply gearing up for the journey (and want to interchange our greens first).”
Particularly, Riot is searching for candidates with expertise in gameplay engineering, sport and UX design, sport artwork, and sport manufacturing, and whereas “direct expertise” with making MMOs is clearly a giant plus, it is not an across-the-board requirement. Additionally, for the report, there is not any indication as as to if the sport will really be known as World of Runeterra, or if it is only a helpful, MMO-like working title.
Both approach, League of Legends followers are sure to be completely satisfied. The lore-heavy MOBA is a pure match for a extra exploratory, RPG-like expertise, and as we famous when Avenue dropped the bomb, gamers have been demanding a League MMO for years. Avenue’s assertion was clearly professional, however seeing it specified by black and white, proper there on the Riot web site, in some way makes it really feel extra actual.
The League of Legends MMO is clearly a significant step for Riot, which for many of its historical past has been a single-game studio, but it surely’s not the one non-MOBA enterprise it at present has within the works. It is also muscled into the aggressive FPS scene with Valorant, taken a run at card video games with Legends of Runeterra, launched the Teamfight Ways autobattler, and has a singleplayer RPG and a combating sport at present codenamed Undertaking L within the works as effectively.
Thanks, VentureBeat.
