Talk:Ao Shin/@comment-1948780-20140126045131/@comment-5955640-20140127000643

Making a new engine would be massively costly. And uhh. I think the secret to Dota 2's help is. Well having the orignal Dota exist for a while before hand and be a mod of something that also existed previously before it. And then what's giving them great power is Valve. Valve is pumping money into Dota 2 and Gabe has a really fat wallet.

Riot's difficulty is that despite having a very successful game that is making money pretty well. It's just one game and they are one buisness devoted to that one game. In a siuation like this the only way to make money is to take a big loss slashing the current prodcution of something to create a new product that can be sold at a high static price (and isn't a free to play game).

In my formal opinion I would love a League of Legends game that as setup like Dynasty Warriors (maybe to the extent that Koei would be invovled?) Making use of the tons of lore they've created to just have this huge fanboy payoff of a game that they could create every other year. One year it's a fighting game. Another year it's a Beat em up. And another year it's a strategy game but not a MOBA style one (a classic RPG of League of Legends? Does one dare to dream?).

As amusing as this is, It doesn't have anything to do with Ao Shin other than the fact that he has been pushed back because they are having a bit of a fundamental struggle (it's hard making this game, please make fanart so we can maintain our enthusiasm for this job that is slowly eating us alive!).