Popular streamer Zack "Asmongold" has given his opinion about Riot's League of Legends MMO being pushed back after a developer reshuffle was announced by Marc Merril, president of the company. In a thread on X, Merril announced that the development of the much-awaited massively multiplayer online game based in the world of Runeterra will be "going dark" for what might be "several years."
Naturally, this has upset a lot of fans who were looking forward to some promising updates and instead got confirmation that the title will be pushed further back than before.
Asmongold came across a Reddit post addressing the issue, and the veteran streamer had much to say. According to him, this was "inevitable" because coming up with the next generation of MMO games is a difficult task:
Asmongold also brought up Ghostcrawler's departure from the company last year. For those who are not aware, Riot's executive producer, Greg Street, who was the man behind the MMO, stepped down from his role and resigned in March 2023.
While the Twitch streamer had been optimistic about the game's development then, the recent news from Riot seems to have changed his mind. He said:
However, the OTK co-founder noted that people should not be drawing big conclusions from Street's departure and the recent postponement in game development:
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Answering a question from a viewer who stated that the next big massively multiplayer online game will take decades of development, Asmongold said:
However, Asmongold ended his discussion on a more positive note, telling his viewers that Riot should take as much time as it wants to make a good MMO rather than make a bad video game:
As it stands, it is unclear whether the Riot MMO will see the light of day any
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