For several months, it has been discussed that the LoL (League of Legends) developers are working on an MMORPG. So far, Riot has not commented specifically on this. But now there is a clear answer.
What is new? In a thread on Reddit , players speculated about what Riot Games is planning for October 27, 2019. On that day, League of Legends will turn 10 years old.
Fans suspected that Riot would finally reveal plans for an MMORPG in the LoL universe that players have believed in for a long time. But the developers have now extinguished this hope.
No, LoL is not planning an MMO: LoL employee The_Cactopus quoted a fan who said “A large open-world game set in Runeterra.” Cactopus responded, “We are definitely not doing that, sorry. There is no League MMO in development.”
He also gave a small teaser “… but we are doing things.”
Players do not want to believe this: Reddit user 808s_and__Fastbreaks suspects a hidden message and replies, “Not in development… BECAUSE IT’S ALREADY FINISHED?”
GI-Jewish tells Cactopus that he just destroyed millions of dreams and hopes. But he replies, “Yes, I’m sorry, buddy. It would be worse if we let people hype themselves up with false expectations.”
This makes it clear that Riot Games is currently not working on an MMORPG. Although there were strong arguments in favor of it.
The trademark rights for Legends of Runeterra were presumably secured for another project.
Why did players believe in a LoL MMO?
With a tweet, Riot founder Marc Merrill started the rumor mills. He asked on Twitter if fans want a LoL MMO.
As a result, a huge hype for a LoL MMO broke out. Players were excited about the idea of experiencing the deep LoL story in an MMO(RPG).
Now, one is eagerly waiting to see what LoL plans instead of an MMO. Riot already mentioned some time ago that they want to make more games:
