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 current card sport, Legends of Runeterra, which had its crew and scope lowered as a part of broader cuts at Riot in January. However this is not a digital card sport. It is a bodily TCG, codenamed Mission Ok.
“Mission Ok just isn’t a bodily model of the unbelievable Legends of Runeterra,” sport director Dave Guskin mentioned within the breathless trailer, “nevertheless it does inherit among the wealthy champion design philosophies of LoR.”
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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 mentioning that the artwork depicts “Previous Viktor within the playing cards? LMAO” moderately than the divisive new model in season two of Arcane.)
Guskin described Mission Ok as a card sport that may do all of it, saying, “Whether or not your jam is crew 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 perfect social TCG on the market and one thing you’ll actually take pleasure in.” Magic: The Gathering’s fashionable Commander format would love a phrase, I believe.
Mission Ok can have a staggered launch, starting with a launch in China early subsequent yr. “We wish to have aggressive play that reaches from the shop degree all the best way as much as national-level tournaments and possibly even world occasions,” govt producer Chengran Chai mentioned.
