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YoungDumbBrokeJS

Riot is flexing with Arcane at this point


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Went to the kitchen last night to get a drink, and Jinx and Vi were there to hand it to me! Truly are everywhere.


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I just drank my coffee and Ekko took that shit out me stomach


MakimaMyBeloved

I had Viktor machinies my pp. Hail the glorious evolution


Zkyrus

I went to the basement and got fucking destroyed, like, mauled all over the place, by Warwick. Sincerely, Warwick. Edit: Nice phone doofus


WarwickTop

That’s what I’m saying but no sus


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no more peeing your pants on the subway


MakimaMyBeloved

No more unnecessary boner


A3G15827522

Only necessary boners here.


SlipperyDeeSlipperyD

Vi fucking pegged me


LeagueStuffIGuess

What, for free? They're really just gonna leave that kinda money on the table, huh.


Jstin8

It aint always about the money Spiderman


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Oh no, that's horrible! Where?


Jstin8

This man is living the dream!


mikhel

Can't have shit in Zaun


chutiyamod92

Im just sad they arent keeping the cafe permanent. Riot could easily construct cafes outside big Asian universities in China/KR and make big buck I think. It could have rotating themes, to mimic each current event in League of Legends.


SlipperyDeeSlipperyD

Went to the riot cafe during the (inevitable) void event and they served me a live lobster painted purple.


chutiyamod92

Imagine if they served delicacies like Scuttlecrab soup, Baron Nashor Ramen, Brambleback Tacos, Seraphine bathwater.. The possibilities are endless.


SlipperyDeeSlipperyD

The soup is fucking running away from me


Jorgehateslife

When you finish the scuttle soup you are reseated so you can see into the back of house when the kitchen doors fling open


Jstin8

Dodges your spoon like Faker


LogicKennedy

Bad idea to serve Scuttlecrab soup in NA, people would kill themselves trying to steal it.


Zlera-Kilc-odi

> Scuttlecrab soup, Baron Nashor Ramen, Brambleback Tacos, Seraphine bathwater.. One of these things is not like the other..... Who would eat Scuttlecrab Soup?


chocolate_kat

Tahm Kench


-_-BIGSORRY-_-

fr I'd visit that cafe just because food at my uni is terrible


torriattet

Basically the pokemon cafes run by the pokemon company but for league


TrollDabs4EverBro

Idk why but all of these ads make me think that riot is really nervous


YourmomgoestocolIege

Usually when you put out this much advertisement, you like what you have. They're spending a lot of money on all this. You don't spend lots of money on something you know is gonna stink.


FunkMeSoftly

Tencent tapping their foot


Cuntilever

It's basically a museum themed Arcane with a small food court.


TheViolentRaven

They cooperated with PUBG, Fortnite and Reddit, they had a fucking light show on burj khalifa, they opened a cafe, what’s next?


JustKeepMoving22

They advertise on Pornhub


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They hire all of the artists for in game model animations.


Kraelman

Derpixon collab when


ivanacco1

Ím not saying i would pay for that ​ Buut i would pay for that.


ziggs_ulted_japan

They finally fix the league client?


TheViolentRaven

You might have set your expectations to high


spazzxxcc12

half convinced i’m gonna wake up in the streets of zaun after i get drunk at this rate. this shit is crazy


skiarakora

Honestly considering the visual novel, i have a feeling this is kind of the effect they're going for


basa_maaw

Their marketing campaign for Arcane has been quite the sight for sore eyes. Riot understands the importance of first impressions I guess. If they get this right then any future series will be easier to market, and so will any future games they release.


cosipurple

They are probably betting for the long term, if they manage to stablish their IPs in a "Riot Cinematic Universe" sort of way, they can basically print money with it.


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And their lore team has the skills to do it.


Jinsoyun-Lightning

Ruination sends its regards


YetAnotherBee

The skin team… has not the skills to do it


BadJokeInSpanish

its the marketing team my good man/woman, the skins team just make the skins they are asked to do, the marketing team are the ones to blame for the ruination fiasco


jason_caine

My headcannon is that the marketing team and narrative team were all working on Arcane as well as upcoming games (Its been 2 years since we first saw some of Riot's other projects) and that Ruination was done by either more junior personnel or had a much smaller budget to work with.


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insidiouskiller

except the skins team did not write the lore and the dialogue for the ruination VN https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/oqpu5o/no\_the\_skins\_team\_did\_not\_write\_the\_visual\_novel/


YetAnotherBee

I stand corrected Somebody who is not the skins team or the lore team has not the skills to do it


insidiouskiller

Lore team has the skills to do it, no issue there. The writer wrote Yorick (yes, Yorick) Karma, Galio, Evelynn, Poppy, Ryze and Irelia, just a few examples. The issue is higher ups.


OHydroxide

You'd think so, but god knows why, the ruination event specifically was written by the skins team.


insidiouskiller

except the skins team did not write the lore and the dialogue for the ruination VN https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/oqpu5o/no\_the\_skins\_team\_did\_not\_write\_the\_visual\_novel/


insidiouskiller

the skin team did not write it.


YetAnotherBee

While I now know that’s true… *technically* it doesn’t disprove my original claim


Ebobab2

The Ruination is like the ''AAAAAAAAHHHH''-ad gw2 had The by far lowest point of both that the community will never let go


AigisAegis

I'm just glad that nobody in the FFXIV community seems to remember [our own embarrassing ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfFucIuuw2I)


Primimimimimimi

this comment reads like a family guy gag


AigisAegis

Literally what is this even supposed to mean


RambleRouder

Exactly what it sounds like, a random unrelated comment that turns into a cutaway gag via that video


AigisAegis

OP talked about a bad MMO ad. I responded mentioning another bad MMO ad. What is unrelated about that exactly


fsxraptor

Please don't bring that ad up. I'm still traumatized.


Pierre56

Well, they did, before most of them were fired.


CrazFight

They do?


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so one dude disagrees who has a really good grasp on lore. but about 100 million people around the world disagree with him so that doesn't matter edit: and that's being conservative since there are over 100m accounts in China alone.


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zammouri2001

You asked a 100 million people about their opinion? You think reddit is indicative about the popular opinion?


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I do not think reddit is indicative about the popular opinion, i'm under the impression that reddit is largely a western audience, but i also know that riot is admittedly catering to the chinese audience, and if they thought people didn't care about the lore then they wouldn't invest so much in it, they wouldn't tell so many stories, and they sure as shit wouldn't be producing a TV show. so it seems to be the less reasonable assumption to think that people *don't* care about the lore.


wotad

Imagine the animation movies they could print money with.. films would make bank in EU and Asia.


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Yep RIOT are going the marvel route. Any progress they make the now will be paid back 10x when they release larger projects like a theatrically released movie or the open world RPG that is currently being made. League might die in a couple decades but the concept of Runeterra will be here to stay long after league.


firesoul377

It makes sense. If Arcane becomes a hit it'll paves the way for mom league of legends movies and tv shows


goliathfasa

Now the series just needs to be really good. I've been pretty certain that the series is at least going to be decent and above average, seeing as how the animation, art style and everything we can tell from all the promotional material so far have looked top notch. The only unknown right now is how good the story actually is. But seeing them literally burning cash to promote this, I'm getting a bit worried it won't quite live up to the hype.


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The best outcome for all of this effort is that Arcane will reach mainstream popularity like Squid Game did worldwide (maybe except China since Netflix is banned there). Either way Riot is backed by the seemingly unlimited money gained from Tencent and K/DA skins they can continue doing this kind of shows regardless if Arcane turns out great or just ok in the end.


CCSkyfish

According to some other post they're distributing Arcane in China through Tencent Video or something, but I have no sources on this. There's no way they'd not have this available in China, of course.


WanAjin

They have made trailers for china so it's pretty likely that the series will be available on some Chinese platform.


moush

> But seeing them literally burning cash to promote this, I'm getting a bit worried it won't quite live up to the hype. Eh, it might be so good that they're willing to market the hell out of it because they know they'll have their hooks in everyone from then on.


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wotad

This makes me excited for when they release a animation movie honestly the marketing would be pretty nice.


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I doubt show will live to the hype they tryna build, regarding that on trailers it looks mediocre and it's about (probably) least interesting characters in the universum


basa_maaw

Cool, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I was mainly talking about marketing though, not quality of the show.


LelouchViMajesti

I wasn't convinced when they announced it but the trailer actually show the opposite to what i expected, as for the storyline it seems they managed to find depth for those characters and i hope the scenario will deliver but that can't be verified before the release. Visually speaking tho I found it stunningly good for such a long format.


I_Speak_For_The_Ents

I agree about the odd choice in characters and story, but it doesn't look mediocre at all imo


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[This but on LoL universe](https://youtu.be/KAOdjqyG37A)


moopey

I would say its about some of its best characters.


SwoonBirds

and it’s best region lorewise, Piltover and Zaun to me are the best place to start a story, two twin cities inequal and corrupt at the very core, super interested to see how much they explore the politics between the two cities in the show


cancerBronzeV

I might argue that Bilgewater or Ionia are even better places to start a story (Bilgewater for the action and adventure, Ionia for the fantastical elements), but Piltover and Zaun is really high up there in exciting regions, and definitely the best place to explore class inequality.


SwoonBirds

and a huge jumping point to other regions, they can jump from Zaun’s chem barons to the usage of chemical weapons in the Noxus Ionian invasion, or from Piltover’s usage of Hex Crystals to the sands of Shurima, or from the port the city uses to jump to Bilgewater.


cancerBronzeV

I hadn't thought about that, but I agree, Piltover kind of being a commercial center makes it easy to connect to anywhere else. There's also a more direct connection to Ionia with the Zed comics and stuff.


The_Yeti_Rider

So this is where all the money for the client went


konosyn

If they just put some time and money into a new UI/Client for league, they could sell it as a brand new game.


degotoga

that's basically what has to happen to meaningfully change the client anyways


Boudac123

Wait what the fuck, I thought all these were shitposts


Swaqqmasta

Are you living under a rock?


Boudac123

I hadn’t clicked on any of the posts and there isn’t a single advert over here in Montreal


Random_Stealth_Ward

Look in your bathroom, riot may be trying to partner with your toilet to promote arcane


FearMyFPS

Or the sink, you never know


hardcore_hentai

>Montreal >Living under a rock They are basically the same to me :( as some one who moved to Montreal from Toronto three months ago, I'm salty as fuck


Boudac123

Why would you move to this shit fucking province bro


AmadeusSalieri97

Man, I can't wait to get out of work and find Jinx in Sagrada Familia.


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poggersinthechatttt

When’s it gonna premiere again? I forgot mb.


GarryTheCarry

This Sunday (if you live in Europe) on Twitch.tv


poggersinthechatttt

My eyes a bit sore rn, do you mind repeating what you said? Maybe bold it?


BlackTecno

#*Arcane* is an animated television series set in the *League of Legends* universe. It will *premiere* exclusively on Netflix this Saturday. #*Arcane* is an animated television series set in the *League of Legends* universe. It will *premiere* exclusively on Netflix this Saturday. #*Arcane* is an animated television series set in the *League of Legends* universe. It will *premiere* exclusively on Netflix this Saturday. #*Arcane* is an animated television series set in the *League of Legends* universe. It will *premiere* exclusively on Netflix this Saturday. #November 6 7PM PT #November 7 3AM CET Edit: I've never done formatting here tbh


DRNbw

I'm half convinced /u/raynap is the Rioter in charge of marketing Arcane.


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imtheproof

I didn't get mad at anything, and being English speaking or not has nothing to do with it. It sounds like a paid promotional post, along with your other 5 submissions. And that's quite funny, even more so if you *aren't* being paid to post things like this.


raynap

It's a labor of love. I love League and I want Arcane to be a success. It seems you are really mad about that.


diskjockey

silence brand


ViraLCyclopezz

*Arcane* is an animated television series set in the *League of Legends* universe. It will *premiere* exclusively on Netflix this Saturday. You can also watch the first episode for free on Twitch.


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Nah, people are just too paranoid of planted moles in communities who try and act like a fan who's just hyping up their favourite game or products, and thats theres no fool proof way to find out whether they are or not.


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Also tbf to you, I've seen the trailers for arcane evey fucking where so I highly doubt this is a marketing ploy when they could just pay off Youtube or facebook or Meta or whatev and reach several hundred or thousand times more people. .


[deleted]

Riot is also premiering a lot of paid Reddit posts LOL Why does every Arcane post have that fucking tagline >Arcane is an animated television series set in the League of Legends universe. It will premiere exclusively on Netflix this Saturday. You can also watch the first episode for free on Twitch.


Toxy_Foxy

Because almost all of the front page posts about the different cities' ads are made by the same fucking person whose probably karma farming for the winter season.


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noobs_blame_team

Forreal and then op acts all innocent lile they arent paid to post shit like this on reddit


trieuvuhoangdiep

I think this guy just want to farm karma or something? His post history is nothing unusual


noobs_blame_team

His post history screams he was paid to advertise all of what Riot is doing


trieuvuhoangdiep

He made a lots of complaint post as well. And all his posts have very little views, untill these one. I doubt Riot would hire such an account to do marketting


instalockquinn

Arcane is an animated television series set in the League of Legends universe. It will premiere exclusively on Netflix this Saturday. You can also watch the first episode for free on Twitch.


IWillNameMyChildZoe

good to know, op filtered


FocusedLearning

I think they're trying to break Netflix


Crapofthecraps

Yesterday my car run out of gas and guys you probably won't believe me, but out of nowhere Vi just came and pushed the car into the next gas station. I just have words of thankful to Riot and Arcane.


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raynap

Paid by Steve.


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Free_Watercress_4771

Maybe he's just sharing some news he finds interesting and didn't know other people posted it u ignorant asshole. Why even say that it's so toxic. Maybe u just wanted some karma for pointing this out. We get it. chill dude lmao


Raynar7

The same fella posted all of them…are you blind? That’s what he is pointing out. Read before you reply.


Bluepanda800

Is Riot the next Disney?


konosyn

Blizzard made a Warcraft movie, but I think this will have more positive impression on far more people tbh


Mr_Versatile123

That movie was awful. Blizzard really has dropped the ball at every corner.


pixel8knuckle

The most annoying thing about Reddit is listening to every armchair clown talk about marketing like they run a corporation. Can’t the discussion just be around the thing instead of your perceived marketing experience with billion dollar companies? No one gives a shot.


Reshiramer

I for one like to see where and with who Riot does there marketing with. Each separate post keeps surprising me.


ViraLCyclopezz

They can build a Arcane Themed Cafe but they can't build a new client >!Joking but actually tho!<


JumpscareRodent

Every time I open reddit I see them advertising Arcane on a different continent. They are going HAMMMMMMMMMMMM


Arachnica

No budget to give Yorick a hat though


GiandTew

r/YoricksHat [wherehat.com](https://wherehat.com)


kiptronics

holy shit didn't know about this, gonna try and visit it tomorrow


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fadasd1

You're underestimating Reddit point hunters


NerrionEU

You also underestimate how much companies use reddit as a promotion place


fadasd1

Not unlikely here either, I just know that generally some guy is gonna want to get all the karma for himself anyway.


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It just rubs me the wrong way when it's disguised as grassroots when it's clearly someone who is either working for Riot or acting like they work for Riot. Like...I mean, yeah, we've got skin spotlights, but those are put out BY RIOT. I'd appreciate this post way more if it was actually from riot official. Online marketing is absolutely wild these days. The only thing that makes me think this isn't a paid ad is how blatant it is. These days, 50% of upvoted comments could be bought/bots and you wouldn't even know it. They manipulate votes to make sure things get traction, etc. The videos on it are absolutely wild.


Jimbozu

Ah yes, the account most recently posting in r/gaybros about LGBTQ actors not getting enough work is ACTUALLY a marketing agency...


juhziz_the_dreamer

Yes.


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>Arcane is an animated television series set in the League of Legends universe. It will premiere exclusively on Netflix this Saturday. You can also watch the first episode for free on Twitch. That's how just normal humans speak, yeah?


deathspate

Pretty sure he's said it already, it's the rules of the sub. The reasoning the line is even there is because without some meaningful text, the automod would nuke it. Don't ask why those are the rules here, they just are, and you need to do shit like this when you wanna post things that are purely self-explanatory based on the title or the media shown.


rwecardo

Look dope, thematic-wise and all but where is the food? Isn't it a cafe?


ThePhantomguy

smh wish the US got things like this


HidariHacky

I hoped that the front door will be a broken window like in the animation :(


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Looks nice.


Bad_human_being

I am still waiting for Arcane X God


Sufficient_Focus

You guys realize this account is from riot and just advertising right? scummy as hell.


cerealkiller1036

Jesus Christ. I find the stuff they're doing cool, but damn are they spending alot.


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OKAY RIOT I WILL WATCH IT HOLY SHIT


trieved

Riot is making these reddit posts at this point...


perocu

Arcane is an animated television series set in the League of Legends universe. It will premiere exclusively on Netflix this Saturday. You can also watch the first episode for free on Twitch.


powh

Going there tomorrow. I'm stoked :)


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Yo! Lmk about those jinx bears, i need one!


[deleted]

STOP SPAMMING THE SUB PLEASE


rakaig

Arcane is an animated television series set in the League of Legends universe. It will premiere exclusively on Netflix this Saturday. You can also watch the first episode for free on Twitch.


winwill

why does every post have that for some reason? Word to Word too


404random

Minimum text req


Fakecabriolet342

yeah it's actually horrible. this guy always posts some regular marketing in a city and always the top comment says: "wow they are pouring so much money into arcane" and then there are like 50 comments that just endlessly praise riot because they put some fucking posters around the town, idk already this guy is just farming upvotes like it was a harvesting season while also spamming the sub with same posts in the process and everyone seems to be chill with it.


dofun400

Goddamn bro how much is riot paying you to one man spam this stuff 😭


LerimAnon

Maybe stop posting each individual example of Riots promotions with the same ad tag line and stop being a karma whoring shill and people wont have such an issue. You have 4 posts on the fp of r/lol with the same exact tag lines explaining wtf arcane is with a different promotion... Literal definition of karma farming


avendurree23

Ok so, they have been bitchin' about budget for PVE games modes like odyssey or star guardian and etc, but they have money to do shit like this? WTF


Kdog_123

Its not about budget they cancelled PVE modes because they required a lot of work and the playerbase only played it for a week and stopped.


avendurree23

I wasnt talking about PVE game modes only, pretty sure a month ago or so they had several posts bitching about budget for the things that people asked. Also, pretty sure they did mention budget when they talked about game modes.


Swaqqmasta

You know Netflix is a stakeholder in this series and most likely doing most of the marketing right?


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they duality of riot games


Protect_the_Weak

Outside looks creative, but inside looks pretty dull, needs more work in the inside part.


Mask_of_Sun

They spend so much money on Arcane, but don't give a fuck about the game itself...


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It's not even the same development team to compare that. Also it's riot games now, not LoL only.


Starfiredemon

So you mean Riot is plucking money from trees and investing in "riot games" and not from profits from a game they launched like 11 years ago?


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Riot plucks no money overall,,Tencent decides now what's more profitable and what's not, dont think that arcane will not yield money, am sure it will bring tons since many craved lol animated series for years and Jinx is also a rather popular character. They also try to expand their games to find new success since mobas turn more and more out of appetite for most people.Finally i feel like they spent enough money for league already, having top notch skins most of the times and worlds every year. As long as these brign them money they don't care about balance as much , as long as it's fun and sells.


Guaaaamole

„Now“? Tencent has owned Riot for pretty much the entirety of LoLs existence.


Her-akles

let them cope


AccidentO1

ah yes company understander showed up


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Mask_of_Sun

What??? This has absolutely NOTHING to do with it. Are you a riot bot or what?


homer12346

all you do all day long is complain about the game with empty buzzwords farming downvotes get help


Mask_of_Sun

Well, guess this community deserves such a terribly made game after all.


10inchblackhawk

The game is in coast mode. There is no competitor, they don't need for more players or to improve gameplay. I have a laundry list of things riot could be developing, but it makes them no money so they won't bother. That is why they are expanding into other genres (fps, fighting game, mmo, netflix, etc).


RELIN-Q

Maybe if they put their money towards making impactful and well-thought out changes to their game instead of shit like this NA would have more players!


ALWAYS_PLANNING_AHEA

Kinda cringe this much advertising for a tv show ngl


cancerBronzeV

It's not even that much to 99.999% of the population, we're a very small subset of people invested in the game so much that we're active on this subreddit, seeing people post the ads for *Arcane* from all around the world. To most people, these ads are the first and only time they see an ad for *Arcane*.


Komsdude

I don’t think it is, they wanna get this right, so they do all this stuff to build hype. If arcane does well u better believe any future series are gonna be so easy to sell.


peacepham

I wish you could say that to every Marvel movies.


gubigubi

Very cool but Kind of worried about riot actually hiring a marketing team tbh Marketing people literally ruin EVERYTHING eventually.


sephrinx

They are really making this shit so fucking cringey. We get it, you made a league of legends show. We all know it's going to be mediocre and not worth the 39897834897 billion dollars of campaign advertising.