LOL: Why Riot does not make more reworks? A developer explains the problem of updating champions

One of the great requests of the community of League of Legends Throughout the current season has been to carry out a greater number of Reworks. Although Riot Games has taken advantage of the year to make visual and playable medium-reaching updates with which he has modernized a good number of champions, this 2021 arrives with his handicap that DR. World will be the only character that can boast a full-face washing . A situation that has been translated into a certain discontent that the developer has finally wanted to tackle.

The two great problems of the reworks

Bryan Salvatore , known in the community as Riot Axes, he wanted to explain that the visual and playable update process of the champions is much more expensive than the players believe. Thus, in the experience of this developer who has been in the company for more than seven years, there are two main problems that make practically impossible that there are more jobs of this type throughout the year: the polarization of the community and the cost of production.

Deepening a little in these two situations, Bryan explained as all the players of League of Legends want a greater rhythm of VGUS for the champions that do not play, while only a few want their favorite characters to change . A situation that gives rise to a significant amount of discontented fans even in well-executed reworks. In the words of him own: A good job gives new tools with which to play, but it also takes something that some players loved.

This situation adds to a resource problem . Although we could think that carrying out a REWORK is much less expensive than creating a new champion, this assumption is very far from reality. Complete updates require work on a good number of SKINS that must be completely renewed. For example, the day that arrived the expected changes to Shyvana will have to get eight new aspects. Something similar to what happened with Dr. World, whose re-launch had to be delayed due to problems with the cosmetics of it.

In this sense, Bryan went back to the community side by ensuring that he understands memes about Riot Games is an indie company. However, the truth is that The increase in resources does not involve being able to increase the cadence of this type of release if a good way to optimize them is not found. In this sense, he at least he said that if he got to this situation, League of Legends players could count on more visual updates as Kog'maw received throughout this year.