Game News “You don’t want an MMO you’ve already played,” the company behind League of Legends is starting from scratch for this ambitious project

Game news “You don’t want an MMO you’ve already played,” the company behind League of Legends is starting from scratch for this ambitious project

Start from scratch

It’s been a few years now that Project F, the MMO from the Runeterra universe, has been announced by Riot Games. The studio formalized the project three years ago now, without revealing more. And since then, the game has been very discreet.

Last year, we learned that executive producer Greg Street, an industry veteran who notably worked on World of Warcraft, had decided to withdraw from the project. An announcement which did not bode well. Ultimately, we had to wait almost a year before getting any news about the software, while Riot Games has only just shared it. And according to the studio, the game is back to square one. The information was revealed by Marc “Tryndamere” Merrill, co-founder of Riot Games.

After much thought and discussion, we decided to reorient the project some time ago. This decision was not easy, but it was necessary. The initial vision just wasn’t different enough from what you can play today. We don’t think you all want an MMO you’ve already played with a simple Runeterra skin. To truly do justice to Runeterra’s potential and meet the incredibly high expectations of players around the world, we need to do something that truly feels like a significant evolution of the genre. This is a huge challenge, but one that our team of deeply passionate MMO players and game development veterans are incredibly motivated to tackle. (…)

Discreet development

Now that Mark Merrill has shared the news, we can already expect many more years of development before this project gets more attention. Still according to the producer, the teams will now stop sharing information regarding Project F in order to “focus on the immense amount of work ahead of them“.

Starting our development from scratch also means that we will be silent for a while – several years. This silence will allow teams to focus on the immense amount of work that awaits them. We understand the excitement and anticipation surrounding new information, but we ask for your trust during this silent phase.

It is good to know that Riot Games is not abandoning the game. That being said, we will now have to wait many more years before hearing again about Project F which seems to display disproportionate ambitions, even for such a studio important than Riot Games. Let’s now hope that Fabrice Condominas, former producer at Bioware who has just taken the helm of this MMO, manages to meet this challenge with his teams.