I love this announcement. I loved Arcane and tried to get into League but didn't like the game, so an mmo sounds dope!

I never really was big into MMORPGs. The only MMO that ever got me interested was Star Wars The Old Republic, even paid 15€ for a Varactyl (the giant lizard Obi-Wan rode on in Episode 3), but I dropped it after some time without any interest to ever go back. Out of every upcoming Riot game I'm most interested in Project L, but who knows, maybe the MMO looks interesting. I even like Ruined King even though I never played a round-based RPG before. I just hope it will have some actual gameplay, not just pressing every number on the keyboard for attacks but actual combat! Also, I don't see League of Legends as a game anymore. I see it as a franchise, with the game just being a very small part of it. The universe of Runeterra is so much bigger than what the MOBA is able to show and I kind of think that the MOBA is holding it back from unleashing its full potential. I hope that Riot somehow manages that when people hear "League of Legends" their first thought isn't "That MOBA? Nah, not interested!". Instead it should be thought of on the same scale of Marvel, DC and Star Wars.

This will be amazing, but it should be minimum 3 years from now if optimistic right? Yeah everyone who loves Arcane expressed their need to keep immersing themselves in this world, but LoL isn't able to provide that immersion so the MMO will have to be it. I wouldn't mind some solo RPG games as well, in the same style as FF VII remake.

That's why I'm going to make a D&D campaign for my friends that don't want to watch the show because "Ooooh League BAD so Arcane is also BAD", because the history and the world is great

Just thinking about what could be and what probably will be brings tears to my eyes. If Riot does this MMORPG right.....I will be there for sure! Though I'll probably be there for just about anything Riot does from now on anyways.

I do think the title of your video has the potential to mislead in the implication of 'will be' instead of what I think 'should be' better represents- the Arcane MMO should be massive, but like many other games in that genre before it, there's going to need to be an extensive amount of curation to ensure that it's a world that feels as captivating as the show in it's own way, and has been given sufficient time to be developed like the show was allowed to for the best product to be created. Making that 'I want to be there' feeling translate effectively through mediums is probably where I see a lot of the development costs being allocated personally. Definitely recommend Josh Strife Hayes' channel which takes deep dives into MMO games and better contextualizes this stuff on the game-side as well- I'd be very curious to see what you think of their perspectives and how they can be applied to the Arcane MMO!

Skylent, we have been shown amazing things and we have been disappointed. Stop this hype train before it starts. Let’s wait for it to arrive, not raise these hopes. We have all been disappointed in gaming and industry. It’s about investors, money, time and agendas. Or, your going to be sitting here, talking about how it had so much potential and you were even buying into it. Come on, Skylent.

I would love to have an MMORPG where you aren't the center of the world. Yes you may have a main quest still, but mostly to help you learn the game and not a story about how I'm "The one" destined to save the world. I want a world where, yes, you can influence the world, but so can other players, and the world doesn't revolve around you. Now just for the sake of "what if": Imagine for example, the same way that real world global geo-politics are always changing, you would have players be nominated (by merit) for specific roles within a region for a specific time interval, and in that time, those players have control over stuff that have MINOR effects for the whole region. I'm not saying control the resources or economy etc, where other players would be dependent on what those "leaders" do, but stuff that would keep the game unpredictable and fresh while not being invasive to the average player.

The world and characters are huge for me in an mmo. I understand gameplay is of great importance too, but wanting to actually be there as you mention is so important, and Runeterra is really, really cool. It's got so much diversity and potential to be way better than even Azeroth.

i want an mmo where we can make ocs sinc in my opinion the firelights look badass and i want to be on of em

It's not the arcane mmo. It's the league, arcane, lor, and everything else to come mmo. Each new medium they reach out to adds to the hype, draws in people from different walks of life. Yes, arcane is important. But they ALL add to the mmo's success.

The League of Legends brand is slowly getting respect thanks to Arcane, now it's time for the gaming part to be respected as well. Hopefully, the community is ready as well, no matter how sober and toxic they can be. The days of League being the butt of a joke to every gamer's mind will be a thing of the past, and I hope Riot doesn't 'eff this up! Pls, don't screw this up!!

I wanna be a scumrat from Bilgewater and work on a ship Rito pls.

I'd play either a Bruiser like Garen or Darius. Maybe a pet class depending on what their pet AI is like.

i cant find the announcement anywhere

You mean The World Of Runeterra not just Zaun and Piltover

2:53 "MMORPG need a lot of players to feel alive", I think this is one of the main problems with MMORPGs, developers create a world with lore etc, but it doesnt feel alive at all, they expect the players to be the ones to give it life, but there arent any tools or content to make the world feel alive, we are just killing things and crafting other things to kill the first thing. There are 2 games that do these 2 things separately, Black Desert Online is great at making a world feel alive without the player being there, there are so many NPCs walking around, carrying things around, talking, etc, it gives the sensation that even if there are no players, the world is still living. (at least thats how I remember, havent played in years) Then theres FFXIV, which is great at giving the players the tools to make the world feel alive, roleplay features, "for fun" content (gold saucer for example), bard instruments creating concerts in every city, marriages, etc... I would love Riot to have both of these, both a world that can live on its own, but also gives the players the tools to add more life to an already living world. I remember playing MMORPGs 15 years ago and thinking that in 5 years MMOs would be so much better, but here I am 15 years later and the only thing that improved was the graphics. Really hope Riot elevates MMORPGs to the next generation.

I was hoping for a singleplayer openworld thing rather than a mmo

Les gooooo!

My favorite mmo all time was Star Wars Galaxies as far as living in the world

Im gonna be a Firefly !!! "it's not enough to give people what they need to survive; you have to give them what they need to live "

I'm so playing it. I don't care, I'm playing.

Project L probably will bring more lore for Runeterra too.... And it will come before the mmo.

I'm dubious. I stopped playing MMOs a while back - just don't have the time to invest in them any more - but from what I've seen it's _really really hard_ to get an MMO right. The hype for an Arcane MMO will be huge, which will make it very hard to live up to. And even if they do live up to it, if the LoL community has anything to do with it, the MMO will drown in toxic player nonsense. They've got a huge challenge on their hands.

COMMUNITY... MMO's were at the their most addictive when Guilds, Clans, Groups of players had support and their self created small communities meant having bonds. Its why players logged in every day. Not just to play in that world, but to see their friends. WoW especially has become increasingly hostile towards player Guilds. The last hurray for guilds came during Pandera, and guess what? That expansions show runner is the lead on the Runeterra MMO. So that adds hope too.

Honestly it makes sense to be geeking out a bit over and Arcane-esq MMO. Riot has done WELL for itself with the netflix show. That fighter looks badass and I wanna try it. But yeah...Riot has some....ok A LOT of that old school WoW possibility...because LOOK at the roster of Devs....You see a TON of WoW credits behind some of those names. GHOSTCRAWLER is pretty high up in the chain..so if anyone can pull off a WoW killer...Riot looks poised to make the terminal strike. Unless WoW can pull a rabbit out of its ass with this Microsoft deal and right the ship.....I'm afraid it wont be afloat much longer.

aiyooo just so that it will not be misleading it is not "Arcane" MMO it's Runeterra MMO, not only steampunk will be there but also the winter of Frejlord the mystic of Targon the nature of Ionia The city of the sands OF shurima the Hidden City of Ixtal the Glorious of Demacia the might of Noxus the the open city of Bilgewater and buru temple and the ruines of shadow isles and also maybe the far city of the east Kamavor

If Riot can pull it off sure I'll give it a go see what it's all about...

Now there's an MMO I'd get into... Arcane Online. Edit: Mage.

We're hyping up an MMO to high heaven about which we know next to nothing and knowing Riot it will probably come with a business model that tends not to do well in the West - a free-to-play model. Yes, the setting and lore on which it will be based is interesting but that won't necessarily translate into a game that people will want to dedicate hours upon hours of their lives to. New World is a recent example of a cautionary tale of hype culture in the current gaming history. Exercise a healthy dose of skepticism before you allow yourself to be sucked in by the hype.

What did I miss?? When was it announced? Is this about the League mmo or was something Arcane centric announced?

Never ever liked LoL, but after watching the arcane show... yeah... I want to be there...

If it looks like the show nothing else matters

Totally agreed. Riot's MMO is the project with the most potential in the last several years, in not a decade. Launching a successful MMO nowadays is incredibly difficult, but if someone can do it, it's Riot. They have all the elements needed - money, developers, community - and while they certainly can fail, their chances of revolutionizing the scene are equally high. Small nitpick though - calling it "The Arcane MMO" is a bit deceiving, it sets slightly wrong expectations for people not familiar with the rest of Runeterra. No doubt Arcane will be a massive factor in its popularity and locations from it certainly will be in the game, but you need to remember that what we see in the show is just a single city in a huge world, which has much more themes of classic fantasy than steampunk/magipunk we see in Arcane. Piltover&Zaun are like Gnomes and Goblins in WoW. It's there, but not the main thing. I've already seen people expecting to see a steampunk MMO but as a whole, it unlikely will be it.

I don't think that calling it "Arcane" MMO is doing it justice. The zaun and piltover was already established the way it was in arcane, before arcane. So it is still Runeterra MMO, not Arcane.

I hope you're right but in the meantime I am going to continue to play what I am having fun in.

WAIT THEY ARE MAKING AN MMO IN THE LEAGUE WORLD

i hope the comunity dosen't push them to relese an incomplete game i wish them to not flop

The lol mmo will be based on arcane?

how about a mobile turn-based strategy game

i'd buy a good pc if this happens

wanna be an archer

If they do make a mmo then itll be at least 5-6 years down the line if they do

I feel the biggest difference between Riot and any other company is that they listen the community and they fix the problems.

And the overhype begins. This video just made sure that no matter how good riots mmo is it will not live up to the hype.

Hopefully it’s as you said… an Arcane MMO and not a LoL MMO. LoL is just fine, but Arcane is just freaking awesome.

13:56 theres a way to sort of have that again, wont be exactly but close enough, subscription. With a subscription based MMO you filter out a lot of the immature and toxic community and only that way u can get it the closest u can to those times, and yes there was immaturity and toxicity back then but think about it, if u played back then u will agree with me.

Oh boy more MMO hyping before we even see their alpha and beta. What could go wrong?

This will be the downfall of wow. Played it and league for over a decade. League has the potential to be the biggest and best mmo ever made of done right

I have feeling Riot is aming to build an mmo like lost ark, if they do that I will be severely disappointed 😞 😔 😒

I am not sure it can work, MMOs don't get the emotional investment down, that the show was going for. I mean lets look at the other emotional investment oriented franchise Star Wars and how even a video game company like BioWare that was always going for more narrative driven games still failed pretty much with SWTOR.

As a free MMO fan that played most of them, the new Riot MMO will definitely be a success. Riot is not Amazon

Warcraft 3 players create DOTA and Blizzard makes WoW. This expands in to DOTA 2 and LoL, then both expand to TV shows, then LoL expands to an Arcane MMO. Next up WoW dies out to Arcane MMO?

Personally the way I'm sitting at currently I think Arcane has the best chance to be the true MMO for people who want to have a more mainstream type of MMO that kind of replicates what wow did however if you want to ask me personally what I think will become the true next massive MMO that everyone plays or at least everyone in the MMO scene will have tried at least once I would say that's probably going to be ashes of creation. Maybe when the Arcane and ammo comes out sometime after Ash's fully releases maybe it will surpass it however I would imagine if it does then it will be surpassing it purely on the front of more in-depth quests that relate more to the specifics of the story that the Dev's want to tell I'm personally in my opinion I think any MMO player knows the funnest thing about an MMO isn't having to follow a story and basically playing a single-player game but technically in a MMO what the fun thing of an MMO is making your own story and exploring a massively expensive world and seeing everyone or you can possibly hope to see while making your own character in your own hero and your own story which especially with the node system of ashes of creation I feel it will still be where everyone who runs the best and ammo you could possibly play would go and I would wager especially since I don't see the possibility of really too many massive creatures or giant boss fights are things like that and an Arcane MMO I definitely feel it will kind of feel a bit smaller than ashes even I'm still probably end up being more kin to a larger scale ESO or Final Fantasy game but most definitely will still be in everyone's mind on the innermost seem and everyone in the end more seeing probably will play that at least once

So is there an official announcement of this? Where this info come from?

SO an MVO.

For delving into a world and experiencing its story, I'd prefer a Single Player RPG over a MMO.

Everquest is still the best mmo to ever exist. It's sad that so many people think wow was the start of mmos.

Riot is the next Blizzard.

Isnt this game YEARS away? How are we suposed to keep a hype alive? Like ashes of creation? I dont understand this mindstate at all

The MMO won't be set in the Arcane canon, but in the LOL canon

im meh on it. regular league will prob be better and they haven't made a new map in years. rather have more normal league maps. don't need another skyrim.

League of Legends is like Sonic the Hedgehog, the worst way to experience that world is by playing the game...

dont think its fair to say league's lore has been rewritten 3x. It's mostly just the one time, with some minor alterations here or there still.

I never played LoL. I dislike mobas (prefer RTS games and even tough I played WC3 back in the game, never got into the mod that became a genre that, well, killed my beloved RTS). I play LoR tough, it's a great card game, and watched Arcane without expectations - and, hell, it's so good. Now I'm willing to try RIOT's MMO. Those guys are just filling the space blizzard left with their huge, bloated corpse.

Any Cabal Online players out here?

I dont know man. Story wise? With how they ruined ruination, I do not believe they will succeed. Gameplay wise? I do belive they wil succeed and big time. Balance wise? All over the place, they cant even fix their own client and cant stop making overloaded champs. I cannot wait to see a certain class basically destroying all until they get nerfed to the ground making them even weaker than a healer just healing.

bro not league but arcane its the same but not it is bascly confirmed that arcane is not canon to the story of it and there think of makeing it so then it would be the same but is full storys for some people and they dont want to mess up and SAYING it is acrance when it will not me mostly will hurt the riot becouse so will demand it when it was never going to be acrane why its is because its been in work to land bit of time and each team does there own things and thing can vary we as a league play have seen it if you flowed ruination event i think you need to look at this with necrit love yall stuff but there is a lack of info of the real mmo and sence arcane i feel like there alot of miss info about it and they fuck up sometime under to much pressure and and this is fuel to it and if they get swayed by the hype then it could be delayed and or change for the view of one stundent copying others work i belfeve the frence team has the fighting gane and animeion studio is in france so i think it will be carryed out by another branch

Lol and arcane are both set in runeterra. I'm really not sure what you're talking about when you correct yourself and call it a arcane mmo. It doesn't make sense.

I feel that the visuals and lore will still be amazing, as they always have been, especially after Arcane. . But the gameplay is gonna be shit. Community will probably be shit, too. . To top it off, it won't even be an MMO. It'll be the same ,"single-player game that everyone plays online on the same map", shit. The only player interaction will be PVP, and shit-talking, like all the rest. Games are about money, and you don't make money by making a good game. You make money by getting a larger number of people to buy/play it...and that means appealing to the lowest common denominator of human turds.

An MMORPG is only as good, as a gaming experience, as its player base. If this new game's player base is (or becomes) as toxic as the LoL player base, then it is ultimately doomed.

Arcane was great but what is the universe of arcane :D a town and a shit hole full of rat and drugged addicted ? hell yeah '' I WANT TO BE THERE '' xD

I'd vastly prefer a story-driven cinematic single player RPG in the vein of Mass Effect, Witcher or DAO than an MMO. Much fun as it'd be to enter the world of Arcane with other players.. I just see it being yet another toxic pvp focused mess or janky pvp-pve hybrid like the majority of post-wow mmo's have been and nothing about that is at all interesting. Story telling and character are what appeal to me about Arcane while cooperative community building and story are what appeal to me in MMORPG's and I can't see either of those being real focuses of a "League" mmo. Most MMORPG's post wow have focused pvp because it's simply so much easier, faster and cheaper to produce "content" for and it inevitably leads to the games just being unpleasant places to be.

This a lot of hype and very little substance. Riot is a AAA studio concerned first and foremost $$$$$$$$ -- whatever this is, it will be concerned with that objective. If you want something more akin to the experience of original WoW, then look into Ashes of Creation. Cool world and lore though.

English speaking Asian servers pls

It's a MOBA. A copy of a another MOBA which was first (DOTA). Which was a copy/game mode of a RTS. Let's not try to shoehorn this mish-mash, which let's face it, only exists because of $$$s, into a mmorpg. If they actually do, it will be just another mish-mash-mmo, like so many others with identity crisis. IMNSHO. That is all. ;)

I love the world and characters. Its just a shame that LoL is garbage. We need this. We want this!

It's not an "Arcane" MMO though, it's a LoL/Runterra MMO. Piltover and Zaun are just an incredibly small part of the overall lore and world of LoL

I was just hoping there is no hype about Riots MMO, just like Arcane. Nobody cared about Arcane before Arcane came out, even League players didnt care about Arcane. Some even thought Arcane was gonna suck. Movie/Anime enthusiasts never ever heard of Arcane. Then Riots dropped it on us just like that. I am hoping their MMO will be something like that.

Riot is great at everything except making games bro lol

But did we really need 18 minutes of this random rambling?