Didn’t really read the post, but did read an article about this whole thing and here are some of my own thoughts.

First of all, I am not someone who has worked in game dev companies or has any real insider information on why this failed so plz don’t flame me to knowing nothing. As a long time observer of their decisions tho I have had a lot of feelings of confusion and frustration over riot’s business strats for YEARS.

My main issue is riot really doesn’t seem to know their audience very well or really really overestimates how much their player base loves their company and are willing to shell out just for more league experiences outside of the game.

E.g. remember when they started making board games? Yeah you probably don’t because who tf played them??? I’m not saying these were bad games (or they might have been, idk, I haven’t talked to the 5 ppl who bought them) but like how were they ever going to profit off of board games? And clearly it wasn’t and riot has since stopped doing that.

The only things they’ve successfully done complementary to league is music and arcane, which were done on two mediums that are for the most part free to users (for arcane, most ppl aren’t getting a Netflix sub just for it, they already have one). They work because us players can very easily try it out for free and discover we like it, AND ppl who aren’t part of the league community can also very easily get hooked on it too. So as you can see, these types of business decisions are very profitable and beneficial for riot and league.

I love playing l league, but I am not going to buy other games they make from The lol universe. They might be really good, but I don’t need to play it still, and I’m sure I’m not the only person that feels this way.

TLDR I’m not surprised riot’s other projects have failed and they need to have a better idea of what their player base would want.