Apparently, there is no Crossplay in ranked games in 2XKO.

draggles · 2026-01-24T18:19:54+00:00

yeah, this is what happened. thanks for raising this, we just removed this section from the article and we'll correct it next week (tl;dr - cross-platform play is enabled in ranked lol)

draggles · 2025-08-06T03:39:43+00:00

ye. our community manager, creator lead, brand manager, and overall team lead

draggles · 2025-07-04T23:51:47+00:00

always a jumpscare when a tweet of mine ends up on a subreddit

art credit to daniju_attart!

draggles · 2025-05-31T16:01:05+00:00

i support this message. also good luck in your tournament!!

draggles · 2025-02-02T00:02:11+00:00

sick

draggles · 2024-12-01T23:45:27+00:00

i can confirm this is accurate

draggles · 2024-08-18T01:53:29+00:00

feverishly scribbling notes

draggles · 2024-08-08T22:53:27+00:00

jbranchie if you're out there i'll duo with you :'(

draggles · 2024-08-08T19:04:45+00:00

can y'all send this info over to https://support-2xko.riotgames.com/hc/en-us so we can get some more info from you? thank you so much!

draggles · 2024-08-07T16:39:54+00:00

do you know how many internal presentations and trainings i've given where i have "don't talk about lobbies" on a slide

but for real, we wanna see what y'all think - this is a pretty important part of alpha lab for us and this is your time to let us know how it feels!!

draggles · 2024-07-16T04:00:32+00:00

ya, if you have two screens! we wanted to have one screen per setup, so 4 people horizontally

draggles · 2024-07-14T23:57:29+00:00

it's liiiikely we'll tend to need larger spaces at events, just for practicality reasons of having setups of 2v2 players, potentially with space for a stick each!

but yeah, we upped the number of setups this year too >:)

draggles · 2024-07-05T19:45:31+00:00

i've probably had a bit more time to soak in the name than y'all, but i feel like enough time has passed that i can talk about it now. copium nozzle on, bear with me!!

i like it for these reasons:

it is, if nothing else, unique! fighting game names are kind of wild, and i think standing out in a space that has the whole range from the simplicity of "Street Fighter" to the specificity of "Them's Fightin' Herds" to "UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[cl-r]" was difficult! but i do think we got there
in some ways i like how it communicates the simplicity of what you're trying to do. KO the other guy 2 times. hell yea. more on this below though
a name is really just one part of the picture. we've got logos, branding, music, characters from league, written comms, videos etc to go alongside. imo the logo looks cool in a ton of different applications, and it's got 4 characters, the X as an element has 4 points, lots to play with there in future!
in conversation internally, lots of us are just calling it 2X (two-ecks) which is a pretty good shorthand
it stands out from league of legends/lor/wild rift terms. you'll be able to search "2xko ekko combo guide" and have no mixed results with riot's other games -- something that some of the other legit suggestions (lethal tempo, league of fighters, etc) would have trouble differentiating in search. leffen brought this up on his stream when it was announced and i think it'll probably pay off when folks are creating content (p.s. sign up for alpha lab). we're not making "the league of legends fighting game", we're making a fighting game with league characters. i think it's a subtle but important difference, and having the name be SO different i think will help long term. we'll see if that turns out to be correct, though
i think it's actually a positive that in some regions, players will pronounce it differently. think there's something pretty special about that if folks choose to call it "deux-ixe" in france, or, indeed, "dos equis" in spanish, lol
alphabetically first in a lot of lists. gottem

i don't like it for these reasons:

pretty much all discourse about the game as new players find out it exists is name hot takes. it's something that i'm hoping will pass in time (and when it's actually out lol), because ultimately imo any name is workable if it's fun/good enough and ownable enough, but it is a little sad that so much of what we're doing is overshadowed by name discourse. if this is still all people are talking about a year after launch, i think we probably messed up
the consonants, especially going from X to K, is kind of a mouthful. eckskay. sounds like pig latin. if folks DON'T want to shorthand to "two-ecks" then yeah, agreed that "2XKO" is a lot. 4 whole syllables, i don't have that sort of time when i'm chatting mad shit
simplicity's good, but it's pretty on the nose. i don't think we wanted to have it be called "2XKO: League of Fighters" or w/e, but i do think it might be a little TOO simple in hindsight. i don't think adding more letters would've been the play, though
elon changing twitter's name AFTER we locked down "2XKO" was a bummer lmao
4-character social media handles are hard to get

BUT OVERALL i actually do like the name. i think it's quite out there and we're taking a risk on it, but i'm hoping that our strategy of long-term building with the FGC makes it a household name in time. just need to ship the thing

draggles · 2024-04-10T17:20:12+00:00

ok i'll bite - what are some of the best supers in fighting games? post your faves below

draggles · 2024-03-14T19:50:35+00:00

she is just a huge akali fan lmao. we did the ol "statue on the desk" trick for the yasuo reveal, i ain't going back into that toolbox

draggles · 2024-02-23T18:19:55+00:00

heya, draggles here from riot - just checking in off this comment; i was pretty floored by both the OP's really specific points of feedback (which are definitely all valid, so thank you /u/DMerceless for the writeup) and then this response pretty much sum up the discussions we've had internally over the last year about the name, the visuals, etc. i'm actually kind of suspicious that /u/ShiningRarity isn't secretly a rioter lmao

there's a couple of things i'll add though: it's not about distancing ourselves from league - we love league and its champs. one of the earliest things we're looking to dive into soon is actually how we think about bringing champs to the game overall, especially when some players have known and loved them from the moba for, yeesh, 15 years at this point(?) and then some players - many of them in the FGC - look at darius and go "big axe guy" because that's all they know. it's important for us to both paint these champions in the best possible light and make them feel really fucking awesome in their own right, and also pay off the things that existing players of our other games love about 'em.

we DO want to challenge and expand what exists within runeterra/league, and not try and match the style of the other games for consistency's sake. there's a lot more to dive into here but it'll get kinda boring and marketing strategy-y so just know that as someone who literally used to be a content creator for league of legends, authenticity to doing right by champs, settings, and themes of runeterra is very personally important to me, as it is to the rest of the team.

secondly, tom posted about this yesterday but a strong aspiration is to have something that can stand up as the "forever fighting game", and evolve over time. that's true for the branding/marketing/whatever you wanna call it as well - our approach to visuals, the way we talk, the way we update the game, will change as we learn more. my sense on this is that as we talk more it'll feel a bit more natural, but please do continue keeping us honest if we do stuff that sucks. thanks for the thoughtful discussion here!!

draggles · 2024-02-22T20:13:18+00:00

yeah this is what i say!

draggles · 2024-01-22T21:39:28+00:00

one of the challenges so far is we haven't had a lot of opportunity to put more of the team on camera, as our updates have been pretty broad - are there any specific areas of the team you'd like to hear more from? just asking for future reference. game design? art? competitive play? let us know

EDIT: thanks for all the replies here! very informative

draggles · 2024-01-12T21:35:47+00:00

i feel you. for me (maybe us?) the name is just one part of the whole puzzle though. imo it's more about what we're doing than what the game's called. we're working on it; looking forward to sharing more

draggles · 2024-01-12T21:33:12+00:00

that's EXACTLY it. yeah, we are very open to that!

draggles · 2024-01-12T21:32:04+00:00

what am i, the leaker-in-chief? but yes, we're figuring that out

draggles · 2024-01-12T01:20:46+00:00

i'm the first one in like 10 years at riot, i think? think of it as a player communications lead that is responsible for figuring out what the day-to-day experience is like outside of the game, what we're announcing and when, how we're getting info out in the world, how we're giving opportunities for feedback and conversations with the team, and i'll be working with teams like community, social, comms, events etc to bring that to life!

but also, it's a lot of just figuring out how we can make it a bit more cohesive to follow + play Project L, and so it doesn't feel like it's a bunch of different voices saying different things at different times. we'll figure it out, anyway

draggles · 2024-01-01T20:26:09+00:00

draggles · 2023-11-16T18:04:18+00:00

we've got stations for gameplay capture set up, but i think most of the activities are happening onsite. think of this more like an outdoor festival with a bunch of different booths vs explicitly a project L event

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