Riot MMO producer vows not to ship the game if it's bad

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In 2020, Riot Games confirmed that it's making an MMO when the project's executive producer, Greg Street, casually tweeted that he was heading up the project. That kind of low-key game announcement is a small trend right now—Blizzard recently soft announced a survival game—but it also turns out that Street is just a pretty unguarded tweeter. Case in point: Riot's PR department would probably not want to say, unprompted, that the studio's big MMO isn't guaranteed to release, but that's something Street tweeted in early April.

In a series of follow-up posts today, Street said that his comment had been misinterpreted by «some players and media» to mean that development of the MMO was going poorly. In fact, «it is going great,» Street says. When he said there was «no guarantee» it would come out, he meant it in the sense that nothing in life is guaranteed.

«There is no guarantee any game in this business will ship,» Street tweeted today. «Anyone who makes that promise is essentially saying they will ship even if the game is disappointing. We won't ship a disappointing game.»

Street added that his team «also won't crunch just to make sure the game is as good as it can be,» and that Riot will «absolutely» release an MMO at some point, even if his MMO never ships (but to be clear, it is going great).

«Maybe I am not the right leader, or this is not the right team, or our design isn't the right one,» Street said. «But the company will keep at it until the game is worthy of your expectations.»

A few weeks ago I made a tweet where I intended to emphasize what a commitment I had made to this MMO. Some players and media latched onto the “might never ship” part and extrapolated that the development was not going well. Spoiler: It is