As is known, on January 22 – on the morning of January 23 (Vietnam time), Riot announced the dismissal of 530 people (about 11% of the personnel at the company). The reason given is because the company is difficult and Riot also wants to focus on games that do not require multiple players. Moreover, the community itself also realized that there are many products of Riot (like The Ruined King) that did not meet the desired revenue. This is also an important cause of Riot to decide to dismiss employees. Because of these, there are many parts that take on Riot's secondary games.
Riot announced the dismissal of employees
But despite asserting firing to focus on the “single player” games, these games, namely League of Legends, will receive the first consequences. Accordingly, one of Riot's most prominent fired characters is Grahm McNeil. For those who do not know, this man is the former editor of Riot and the author of a series of biography of generals like Azir, Jinx, Lux, Garen, Varus, … It can be said that almost every general has been Visual of League of Legends has biography created by him. The fact that Grahm McNeil was fired: the biography of the generals now can only change completely, but it is hard to develop on the original.
Grahm McNeil – The person behind Lore of many famous generals in League of Legends
Super products like the Arcane series will face many difficulties to launch in the future
Next, it was Riot Llama – the person behind Rework Skarner, as well as creating generals like Smolder, K'Sante. According to many viewers, Llama's “out game” means that Skarner's reward will also be able to be delayed and this general will be riot again to “retreat to the past”. Not to mention, this can also affect both Smolder and K'Sante in the future, when Riot wants to make edits to these generals.
Rework Skarner as well as developing plot for generals like K'Sante or Smold in the future is also suspicious when Riot Llama also leaves the team.
It can be said that Riot's dismissal of a series of employees, including many people have devoted countless to the publisher's games may be a necessary but contain a lot of risks. Because at this time, the community of Riot games will “look” more carefully in the future. At the same time, Riot itself will be difficult to exploit the generals of the general to develop into cinematic products as the case of the Arcane series.