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Final Fantasy XIV's Mobile Version Is Dead After 15 Months, and Riot's Parent Company Is the One That Killed It Tencent owns Riot Games outright, so this is Riot's parent company walking away from its single biggest MMO bet: a faithful mobile port… #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

A One-Man MMO Just Shipped Raids Where 14 of Your 15 Raiders Are Bots, and They Now Recruit Each Other Into Guilds Erenshor is the clearest working answer yet to the problem that will decide whether Riot's MMO feels alive on a Tuesday morning in a… #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

One of the Biggest Free MMOs Just Made PvP a Seasonal, Matchmade 12v12. Riot Just Hired the Blizzard Vet Who Built Exactly That. Throne and Liberty is one of the largest live free-to-play MMOs -- the closest existing analog to the F2P model Riot's… #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

The Elder Scrolls Online Just Lost Its Studio Head, Its Executive Producer, and Its Game Director in the Same Week ESO is the closest living analogue to what a Runeterra MMO has to become: a big-budget western themepark MMO carrying a beloved… #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

Stars Reach Shipped Sliders for Everything. A Yeti in the Shurima Desert Is Why Riot's MMO Shouldn't. Stars Reach wiped every character and shipped sliders for horns, tails, and everything else. #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

Demacia's Capital Already Has a Coronation Square, a Mage-Hiding Charity, and Scouts Who Bond With Eagles The Great City of Demacia is already a fully drawn capital: a coronation plaza, a charity that shelters mages in secret… #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

Riot Is Stacking Its MMO's Server-Tech Studio in Sydney, and One Job Ad Said the Quiet Part Riot's careers board now tags four live roles to its unnamed MMO, and one listing drops the pretense: 'A highly anticipated Riot MMO. #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

Evelynn Flayed a Demon and Kept Him Alive. That Is a Whole Class Runeterra Already Wrote. A Bilgewater card shows Evelynn binding a broken demon instead of killing it, and the canon around it already sketches a demon-binding class. Nothing announced. #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

Anyone Can Drop Into EVE's New Extraction Shooter Right Now, No Invite Required. The Riot MMO Is Still Tested Behind Locked Doors. The contrast with the Riot MMO is the whole point of the story. #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

A Demigod Lost His Name to Time. Aurora’s Whole Story Is the Quest to Give It Back. Aurora’s canon reads like a companion quest: a witch who sees spirits escorts a lost demigod to the far north of the Freljord. #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

A New Action MMO Just Broke Down Exactly How Its Warrior Fights, Down to the Parry Timing. Riot's MMO Still Hasn't Shown a Single Class. Class and combat identity is the single biggest thing we know nothing about for the Riot MMO… #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

This Week in Runeterra History. 10 lore drops shipped this week of year — cinematics, short stories, comics. Swipe through the timeline. Full stats: #RiotGames

Blizzard Used to Build a World. Then Someone Put a Number on It. The Activision merger did not change who owned Blizzard. It changed what Blizzard had to answer to. #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

Two Factions Broke World of Warcraft. Runeterra Is Built for Three. World of Warcraft spent a decade tearing down the Alliance-Horde wall it could never balance. Runeterra can do factions right, if it builds a banner instead of a wall. #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

6 fresh articles just dropped on RuneGrove. Catch up on everything Riot in the thread. #RiotGames

The Classic MMO Everyone Was Rooting For Just Halved Your Backpack in Beta -- Then Sold the Other Half Back in a Cash Shop EverQuest Legends halved core inventory between betas and sells the difference back in its cash shop. #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

The Unrenewed: A Baccai Raid Hidden in One Runeterra Card Nasus keeps failed god-warriors in hanging sarcophagi, and one Legends of Runeterra card shows why. We design the Unrenewed, a baccai raid built on real Shurima canon.… #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

Even a 'Pure Sandbox' MMO Just Added an Achievement System -- the Guidance Trap Riot's Runeterra MMO Can't Ignore This informs the Riot MMO's direction on a core question: how much scaffolding a modern MMO needs.… #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

A Quarter-Million Survey Answers From WoW Classic Diehards: More Raids, No Flying. It's the Exact Question Riot's MMO Has to Answer. Riot rebooted its Runeterra MMO in 2024 specifically because the first version looked too much like existing MMOs… #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames

Nilah Isn’t From Bilgewater. She’s From a Kingdom Riot Named But Never Put on the Map. Nilah’s card says Bilgewater. Her canon home is Kathkan, a kingdom beside fallen Camavor that Riot never drew, and it hints at which zones an MMO builds first. #RiotMMO #MMORPG #RiotGames