A new League of Legends dev update video has been published, featuring Jeremy “Riot Brightmoon” Lee, Andrei “Meddler” van Roon, Pu “Riot Pupulasers” Liu and Drew “just a capybara” Levin. In the video, the devs address Split 2 rewards, the team’s philosophy on monetization, the start of Season 2024, and more.
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The dev update can be viewed here:
Here’s everything the video covered:
- Season 2023 Split 2 ends on January 9th.
- Players can earn Honor and Ranked rewards before Season 2024 begins on January 10th.
- Season 2023 Split 2’s Honor skin is Three-Honors Akshan, which will be given to Honor Rank 5 players in Patch 14.2 in late January.
- Split 2’s Ranked rewards will come in February.
- Season 2023 Split 2’s Ranked skin is Victorious Tryndamere, which will come to the Rift in Patch 14.4 in mid-late February.
- Also starting in Patch 14.4, League of Legends will no longer support Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1. These updates are critical for allowing the League team to continue improving the game’s stability and performance.
- Pu “Riot Pupulasers” Liu and Drew “just a capybara” Levin shared an update on League’s monetization philosophy. More details on the set of values the team will be referencing for future work can be found in the dev blog released today.
- After eight years, Jeremy “Riot Brightmoon” Lee will be leaving the League team in early 2024 and passing the torch to a new Executive Producer.
- Players can look forward to hearing more from the League team in a few weeks for Season Start 2024.
- The team wished a happy and healthy holiday season to fans and looks forward to seeing everyone on the updated Rift in 2024!
We’ll see how players respond to these updates, especially the monetization discussion. The community has been known to have pretty strong opinions regarding pricing and the level of quality on in-game items, so we’re interested to see how they feel about the way Riot’s described their philosophy.
We’ll be sure to let our readers know when the next dev update arrives.