League of Legends fans are getting some potentially disappointing news that will be affecting players in the near future, and both League Client and mobile users will getting this change. The devs recently announced the Clubs feature will be sunsetted soon, and took the time to explain via blog post why this is League update is happening.
Right now League of Legends players can enjoy the 2020 PsyOps event, which popped up sooner than expected and will run until the end of this month. Fans can also anticipate the 2020 World Championships at the end of this month as they play through the event and take part in everyday player experiences. However, those who enjoyed the Clubs feature may find this month bringing them some disappointing news, but at least they can know the reasoning behind the feature’s removal.
The main reasons cited in the blog post are the evolution of community tools and technological constraints, which the devs go into detail to explain. The community’s methods of communicating have traveled over multiple platforms: TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, Mumble, and now Discord. There’s no doubt that communication has changed over the years players have been competing in League, and it will no doubt continue to do so. The blog post mentions how Discord has branched out, and has quite frankly dominated the market in “team communication and social inclusion,” rendering Clubs obsolete.
The blog post also mentions how the tech for Clubs was innovative at its inception but has since lost support and degraded in comparison with other communication tech. Despite the tech team continuing to squash bugs and patch League of Legends, it became clear to the devs that the only way Clubs could survive was to be completely rebuilt, which is a huge task that the devs don’t want to devote their focus onto.
Simply put, Riot Games wants to focus on what it does best, and leave the community management innovation to companies completely devoted around the feature, like Discord. The devs plan to focus instead on fighting “game-ruining behavior,” improving the client, updating the League of Legends item system, and “building new ways to play.” Given how robust and constantly-updated Discord is, Riot is partnering with the chat service to transition Clubs’ features over.
While this may sound disappointing for those who enjoyed Clubs, it sounds like this effort will improve other areas of the game and allow players to use Discord’s features in direct conjunction with League. Clubs will be leaving at the end of 2020 during the preseason, and the devs will provide more info as this time draws closer.
League of Legends is available on PC.
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