In a slickly produced four-minute video, Riot Video games revealed that it has been engaged on a card sport. This got here as information to gamers of its present card sport, Legends of Runeterra, which had its staff and scope decreased as a part of broader cuts at Riot in January. However this is not a digital card sport. It is a bodily TCG, codenamed Challenge Okay.
“Challenge Okay is just not a bodily model of the implausible Legends of Runeterra,” sport director Dave Guskin stated within the breathless trailer, “nevertheless it does inherit among the wealthy champion design philosophies of LoR.”
That did not assist to appease Legends of Runeterra’s followers, who’ve interpreted this announcement as a betrayal. Feedback on YouTube and Reddit are filled with pained responses like “Think about trusting a Riot card sport after what they did to LoR” and “Legends of Runeterra died for this” and “Lowkey a slap within the face to LoR’s existence lol.” (There are additionally a number of jokers gleefully declaring that the artwork depicts “Outdated Viktor within the playing cards? LMAO” reasonably than the divisive new model in season two of Arcane.)
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Guskin described Challenge Okay as a card sport that may do all of it, saying, “Whether or not your jam is staff 2v2 battles or free-for-alls, a technique to loosen up with buddies or go all in on alliances, backstabbing, and betrayals, we predict we have created the most effective social TCG on the market and one thing you’ll actually get pleasure from.” Magic: The Gathering’s widespread Commander format would love a phrase, I believe.
Challenge Okay could have a staggered launch, starting with a launch in China early subsequent 12 months. “We need to have aggressive play that reaches from the shop stage all the best way as much as national-level tournaments and perhaps even international occasions,” govt producer Chengran Chai stated.
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