Rank 4: “League of Legends” MMORPG
Setting: Fantasy, Runeterra universe | Developer: Riot Games | Platform: TBA | Status: Still in development, restarting in 2023/2024
That an MMORPG for the Runeterra universe is coming has been known for quite some time. Already at the end of 2020, the LoL MMORPG was officially announced. Greg “Ghostcrawler
” Street, the former lead designer of WoW, was the head behind the game at that time.
Arcane shows how exciting stories from Runeterra can be:
In the meantime, he has left the studio and is working on his own MMO project Ghost (which only made it to 17th place in our survey).
After Greg Street left the Riot Games team in March 2023, there were obvious issues in continuing the previous vision for the LoL MMORPG. A year later, the official confirmation came: it had already been decided some time ago to restart the direction of the project.
Marc “Tryndamere” Merrill, head of Riot Games, cited not being able to differentiate enough from the competition as the reason for the restart. For the reboot, they managed to get industry veteran Fabrice Condominas on board, who has previously served as a producer for BioWare (e.g. Mass Effect 3).
Since then, there has mostly been radio silence, occasionally interrupted by small bits of information – most recently in November 2024, when “Tryndamere” spoke about the high expectations of fans: Riot head with an update on the MMORPG for League of Legends, community jokes about possible release date
