People please stop reblogging that post about that person who got ~fired~ after “working on akali for 9 months” it’s a straight up lie. Check out the real people behind the video, a french studio named Fortiche. Nothing in that post adds up. A lot of fortiche members actually have instagrams with the actual process, it was a contract so riot games had no one to “fire” since it wasn’t an in house job, and even if there was nobody would fire a person who could work ON THEIR OWN on a project like that (which is impossible btw.)
Please think before you reblog shit like that, it discredits every people fighting against exploitation in the video game industry. Just… stop. Inform yourselves.
Wha aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh? Tumblr believing everything without doing any sort of research before spreading misinformation? Naaaah that doesn’t happen.
Please listen the person who got fired by Riot DID really get fired after working their ass off to help deliver this project. And showing that the ANIMATION was done by an outside studio is even more proof of how Riot benefits from other people’s hard work.
Also please check out the CREDITS in the original music video posted by League of Legends on Youtube.
Yeah, that’s the only bit of credit they get. Their name mentioned. Not even a link to the studio.
Don’t try to defend Riot Games. They don’t deserve it. They are not just infamous for being shady employers, there is proof that they are.
Also iirc that person spoke about being involved in the coding side of the character, not necessarily the design or the video.
They mentioned making sure that the character was released without any hiccups in the gameplay so like. Just because they used some striking visuals that have caught on as shorthand for the character that doesn’t mean their testimony was wrong.
It’s like people completely forgot that those characters are characters in a GAME and have more to them than visuals and voicework???
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