Riot Games outline five-year strategy, including plans for more TV, movies and music

rockpapershotgun.com:

Riot Games have outlined their strategy for their next five years, saying they think of themselves "not as a games company but as a gamer’s company." The lengthy post, credited to Riot CEO Nicolo Laurent, outlines not what they specifically intend to make, but the kinds of things they want to make and the internal changes designed to make it happen.

The post also acknowledges Riot Games' recent history, including their settlement last month of a gender discrimination lawsuit stretching back to 2018.

"As we shared with Rioters, three years ago, Riot was at the heart of what became a reckoning in our industry. We’ve come a very long way since then—in our workplace, our processes, and our leadership—and we’ll continue that work every day," the post reads under a heading titled "Beginning a New Chapter."

"To be clear, we aren’t asking anyone to forget about this chapter and move on. On the contrary, the lessons we’ve learned together over the last few years will be a crucial part of the Riot Games origin story. Something we’ll continue to teach as part of our ‘denewb’ orientation and lessons that we’ll use to always orient ourselves toward what is right for Rioters to make Riot the best possible place to work."

The post makes no mention of the lawsuit brought against Laurent himself last year by a former assistant for alleged discrimination. Riot's own investigation allegedly found "no evidence" of harassment.

The rest of the Laurent's post outlines what Riot want to achieve. It's a lot of corpspeak about being "bold" and 'redefining' fandom and so on. The concrete parts of it are that Riot want to make more games, that they want to make more than games by also producing more esports, TV shows (like Arcane), movies and