Riot Lays off More League of Legends Developers While Promising to Increase Team Size - IGN
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Riot Games has announced it will be laying off an unknown number of developers from the League of Legends PC development team, while simultaneously pledging to increase the size of the League of Legends team.
  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    The company that is being struck because it tried to sneak around the union contracts by making a shell company to do casting calls below the contact rates? That Riot Games? I’m not shocked.

  • IcyToes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    So hire more artists to churn out cosmetics, mtx content while milking existing code that will change less?

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    To say I could care less about league of legends is an understatement but I am anxious about legends of runeterra’s future, it demolishes hearthstone or magic the gathering in its core gameplay mechanics and is genuinely free to play friendly.

    Ugggh

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      I could care less about league of legends is an understatement

      Couldn’t. Couldn’t care less about league.

      But the burning fires of my grammatical pet peeve aside its a damned reasonable choice to not care about it. My worry is how other esports companies will react to this. It’s still such a tenuous sport even with the crazy viewer numbers the League world championships bring in, and if the biggest name in esports is about to start jettisoning actual production staff from the biggest title in the room… Idk, I can see other companies overreacting.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        You understood what I meant, please don’t assume I am interested in being corrected for silly grammatical mistakes : ) :) :)

        That is a really good point though, and in general I think this is a dark time for video game fans seeing so many devs that made our favorite games be tossed away by the corporations that profited off them.

        For one this bodes terribly for growth and innovation in gaming for the next 10 years, why go into the industry if creating one of the most sucessful esports games ever isn’t enough for a corporation to decide you are worth employing consistently? The state of things is a joke and a very destructive one at that.

    • Malta Soron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Is LoR still alive? I used to play it for a few years until I just got tired of CCGs in general, but the Arcane season 2 trailer made me all nostalgic again. Back then (before the Reddit exodus) it seemed like the game would be taken down anytime soon.

        • Malta Soron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          Good to hear! Is it still fun to play?

          I burned out because of the constant pressure from battle passes and meta changes, so a more stable meta might not be all that bad.

          • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            I play singleplayer (I LOVE the mini roguelike mode) and co-op for the most part so I can’t speak to that authoritatively but take a look at the runeterra reddit, it is active and vibrant and it isn’t full of complaints about the meta or anything.

            I mean, I don’t know active playercount stats or anything but there is clearly a solid community around it that genuinely loves the game (for very good reasons) and that is all that matters to me!

            • Malta Soron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              2·
              1 month ago

              Thanks for the insight! StarCraft 2 is in a similar state (remaining healthy and fun despite the lack of developer support), so that’s a good sign :)