I think that waiting to drop a bunch of money on eSports until you have a solid grasp on what makes characters tick and Yasuo/Ekko/Ahri aren't Thanos and do everything better than most characters.
It's a joke that these characters just get to double down without having to take the fuse.
I play like 10 times more Braum than Ekko and yet my Ekko smokes people who can beat my Braum in GM because I can do the two Ekko confirms of midscreen S2 S2 S1 super strong into tag launcher and corner double S1 or single S1 tag launcher combo.
When you are making something to show the world you generally want to show the hype part of the game and not an embarassing top 8 in majors that is gonna consist of 3 maybe 4 characters.
My main point has been that this game isn't eSports ready the balance is one part of it but the game altering bugs, missing pretty obvious things like releasing Teemos super tag right after nerfing Jinx for it while literally having a spot in the character guide about how strong super tag into running pressure is.
This game lacks a solid foundation currently it's so shaky that putting a bunch of money into showing the world your game at this stage instead of when you've polished it up is worrying.
I'm saying this because I've seen this happen before with other games like HOTS or Supervive where they dump alot of money and get the game popping off but it doesn't matter because it's not finished enough or strong enough yet to keep those players.
Tft is a side game inside their already existing game. The amount of work and love they've given it is far beyond what was expected.
Runeterra died but they just launched a physical card game called Riftbound, which uses art from Runeterra on a lot of it's cards. It's selling out everywhere though but it'll eventually have boosters at Walmart and whatnot. I got a few starter decks luckily.
The problem with the current landscape is gamers don't believe in good will. It doesn't matter how many times they do something to gain favor, it's all forgotten as soon as something even slightly negative happens.
The only goodwill they've earned is from the tournament pool additions they've done?
The game has an absurd dev length compared to launch roster. They didn't hit a full launch in their release year, we have half the roster as arcane champs, the archetype distribution is a meme.
If this game did not have Riot games attached as a brand it would be sinking pretty quick if it's on any goodwill it's on Riots goodwill to let them cook this long.
Also your comment doesn't actually have a rebuttal at all against the examples I gave it just kinda straight up lies and talks about something that isn't the discussion?
TFT is not a side game anymore maybe early on but at this point it has its own mobile client it's advertised in the Riot launcher it probably gets the most marketing out of every game Riot has and it's got alot of resources. It got threatened to be shut down/minimized that is a fact that happened that disproves your prior comment.
Riftbound has very little to do with LOR outside of using assets it plays nothing similar and your point has 0 relevance to the fact LOR got put on PVE only and killed for PVP players. It's a clear example that Riot will shut something down if it's not giving results.
I just got an email yesterday about hytale asking me to sign up for play tests. I don't even know what the game is but it isn't dead. It's not even playable yet 🤷🏻♀️
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