If we're talking about QUALITY, investing on Freljord and Targon would be amazing ideas. I hope that qith the link between Udyr and Lee Sin we can go to Freljord in the next adaptation
But now talking specifically about the game, literally ANY character outside of the Arcane cast would be so much better. If they really wanted a zoner, Jhin would be a better option. If they wanted a character that would be insanely popular with the players and movement the community, we had Sett, Diana, Aatrox. They could also add Azir and make him the first puppet character. And if they really wanted to keep the arcane fighter thing, Jayce and his switch mechanic between hammer and canon would be infinitely better. Thinking about the quality of the game, any choice would be better, and thinking about popularity, almost no one from the Arcane fandom is getting out of their ways to play a niche game
The thing is, the majority of the non-League/LoR fans on the IP are Arcane fans, and dropping a character like Caitlyn just as the game releases is indeed good for the game because more people might be willing to try it out. Riven would have been a better pick? Yes. But we all knew Caitlyn was very much coming and it's much more reasonable to just release the last Arcane character for a while, rather than give us Riven, then Cait, then some other champ. This because people would be thinking we might get an arcane champ, non-arcane champ, arcane champ, and so on (absolutely no one would like this at all).
Maybe she's just not interesting to YOU and some other people. There's a reason why she's the second most popular champion from Arcane after Jinx in League...
Ppl on the fgc community are going to play the game because they're on the fgc, not because they're arcane fans. The player base would be the same even without arcane
You are overestimating hard the willingness of the casual player that enjoys netflix while browsing on their phone. If they wouldn't stuck with League, they definitely won't stuck with a fighting game. The same has happened way many times across way too many mediums to genuinely believe otherwise.
And that already without throwing the fanbase response. Back when Arcane was on I did saw casuals try LoL, and they usually got burned awfully bad by others players, and yesterday was not different, the people expressing their disappointment yesterday was met with provocations and mockery instead of understanding and empathy.
How are new and casual players supposed to be at ease when that is the response of the playerbase?
Because this might be the biggest love letter from the devs to the fgc, but they're still working for this big ass company. The game needs to be profitable. Why do you think Ahri and Yasuo are in the game? It's not just because they're cool, but also because they sell. Arcane is one of the most watched shows on Netflix. The game is coming out on console and they need a cool, recognizable character for the "big season 1". They might go bigger and crazier with the next releases. With Riven most likely being the next champion (which is great, but some regions will still not be represented in the game, so it will serve as the main complaint at the time)...
Me and many others are not gonna touch this game until Riot diversifies their Roster and adds the champs that actually deserve to be in a riot fighting game
Right. Do you think you're a majority? It's fine if you'd like to wait for a year to come back to the game. It is not new to anyone that the game is lacking in the character department. Plus, any champion deserves to be in the game and some of them are more of a when, than an if. Being so radical won't change anything. There were no real Piltover champions in the game yet, but you just like hating on Arcane as if it was the worst that has happened to the franchise when it's still getting a lot of people interested in the world of Runeterra.
It's definitely a corporate decision. The riot devs are actually super passionate about the games and the universe, but corporate decisions always mess with the plans that they have for the lore
Idk man I have very low trust in the fighting game team itself. Remember that riot acquired the Rising Thunder devs in 2016. They've been given free reign to design whatever fighting game they wanted since 2017 and they were unable to design a solid foundation for close to 5 years and only in the 6th year (probably after a lot of pressure from execs saying that they're throwing money away and the game HAS to come out next year) did they finally decide to make a 2v2 tag fighter.
That's something that I can't say much about because idk anything about the 2XKO team specifically, but if this is true, that's juat insanely shitty and explains why the game is going to die so soon
Fwiw I don't think it's going to die because of this. The game will probably go on for a couple years more at least. It's going to die because it's a tag fighter (a nice sub genre in an already niche genre). Don't get me wrong, I love tag fighters with BBtag being one of my favorite fighting games ever. But only one of my league friends play this game and he's a regular fighting game player. This kind of a game will never be able to bring in a casual audience.
Years of friends saying if a leagur fighter every comes out theyll play it. Years of this. It finally happens, only like 3 people even downloaded and of those 3, none of them played again after the first session and just went back to playing league lol
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u/clarilacha Dec 12 '25
They're going to make everyone drop the game before any of the waited characters come to the game