[STEAM] LoL leadership talks aging player base, looks to future with new executive producer

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League of Legends is nearly 15 years old. In many ways, the industry standard-bearer in multiplayer PC gaming and esports, once a haven for young, competitive players, is now an “old” title—and it has a playerbase age to match.

At least, that was the gist given by

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‘s leadership team in a private media event held on Riot’s Los Angeles campus. Make what you will of it, but the playerbase is getting older, and with that age comes a different set of challenges. “It’s not inherently a bad thing,” game director Pu Liu said in answer to a question about the age of League‘s players going up after confirming the assertion was true. “If you have a game that retains players really, really well, and you have a consistent inflow of new players year over year, [the playerbase] should age up.”

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