League of Legends MMO producer departing Riot Games

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League of Legends MMO producer Greg Street has announced plans to depart Riot Games.

In a Twitter thread, Street explained his reasons for stepping down.

"A combo of personal and professional considerations led me to down this path. We experienced some devastating personal losses last year and I want to be closer to my surviving family," he said.

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"But while I was on break I got to think a lot about my career. Grief has a way of really bringing into focus what matters the most to you (still don't recommend it overall though). And after nine years at Riot it feels like it's time for something new!"

He added he plans to stay in game development and will be "with you all playing the Riot MMO when it comes out".

Hey internet. Thanks for all the support over the past few months while I was afk

I am back now with some big news to share: I have decided to step down from my role at Riot Games — Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) March 7, 2023 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings

Street was executive producer on Riot's forthcoming League of Legends MMO, but he's assured fans the game is still in production.

"The MMO is in good hands and it's the right time to hand over the reins for the next phase," he said on Twitter.

According to the Riot website, Street joined the company in 2013 as lead gameplay designer for League of Legends before leading the company's creative division. Before that, he worked for Blizzard as lead systems designer on World of Warcraft.

Riot Games president Marc Merrill has followed up the news with an update on the LoL MMO.

"First, we are still in early development, but have a direction that we're very excited about. We're working hard to deliver an experience that you'll love. (But it will still be a VERY long road to get there - thanks for being patient with us.)," he wrote on Twitter.

"We believe in this game and the team working on it. If we look at development as a race, Greg has run an amazing first leg with an incredible team, and I know whoever takes the baton next will be set up for success going forward."

-Aone on March 8th, 2023 at 14:46 UTC »

just popping in to remind reddit megaminds that you can change producers mid-development without big problems. this doesnt mean the MMO will be canceled or that it will be bad now

echiro-oda-fan on March 8th, 2023 at 14:13 UTC »

It doesn’t mean all that much. The producer role in game dev is generally the project manager. They focus on managing the different teams and keeping them on task. In big productions like this there is usually more than one producer, so this person leaving for personal reasons (death of family member) is not too much of an issue. The only aspect of the game I see this affecting is the scheduling during development for a little bit as the team adjusts to pick up the slack, prevention of crunch is tasked to the producers.

But, this is only true for small dev teams. Seeing as this is Riot, a producer would be geared more towards fiscal management and finding funding for the team. Project management would be delegated to another person that would report to the producer. The producer here would be more in charge of negotiating with the people funding the game for more time/money, which shouldn’t affect the game at all if there are multiple producers.

evilNahuel on March 8th, 2023 at 12:13 UTC »

The MMO Producer stepped down from his role because he lost his brother and father in a short period of time. I wish him and their families the best and I hope they’re all able to find peace.