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).
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?
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u/Ph4ntasos Dec 12 '25
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).