If Riot’s MMO is not interesting, its producer agrees not to release it

We still have little news MMO in preparation at Riot Gamesbut according to the vice-president Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street, everything would be fine internally, in reaction to doubts that have found a sounding board online. In truth, the executive producer of the project does not see Riot agreeing to release a bad game.

Coming from a Blizzard veteran known for working on World of Warcraft since its inception and the famous titan project, these words resonate particularly strongly. Despite a substantial investment on the part of Blizzard, the game behind Project Titan never saw the light of day, and the scraps were used to produce Overwatch.

Many games are regularly prototyped and abandoned behind the scenes of the industry, but the lessons remain as a rule. Yes Riot Games’ MMO is not good, the work done will probably be used for something else, specifies ghostcrawlereven if he will no longer be there to see it.

Do I think Riot will launch an MMO at some point? Absolutely. There are so many good reasons to do so. Maybe I’m not the right leader, or it’s not the right team, or our design is not right. But the business will continue until the game lives up to your expectations.

This may also explain why Riot Games has not yet shared any concrete info about its MMO which should, we suppose, exploit the world of League of Legends: Runeterra. There must remain gray areas to be clarified and a long way to go before entering a semblance of a production phase. This is surely why the title was unveiled discreetly, on the sidelines of the celebration of 10 years of League of Legends.

In any case, even considering that the work is progressing in the right direction internally, Riot’s MMO has only entered the design phase than in 2018and Ghostcrawler reported in 2020 that the first playtests are still a long way off.