League Of Legends' Greg Street Talks LGBT Characters
League of Legends developer Riot Games is looking at the possibility of adding LGBT characters to their popular MOBA at some point in the future. However, they don't want to force it.
Polygon spoke with the game's design director Greg Street and asked if there would be any point where non-straight characters would be created for the game. This question was partially prompted by the somewhat recent reveal of Overwatch's Tracer as a lesbian.
Street responded by saying that Riot "owe[s] it to the players and [...] to the world to do something like that." However, he notes that he'd rather not do it in a force way, adding he's "sure [they'll] do it at some point" but that doesn't know what character or when.
According to the article, when it does happen, it will probably be via storytelling outside the game.
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BTW i am not in any way of form saying that i am a homophob i just think that LGBT community doesnt deserve so much media attention if any.
We live in the pussy age right now, where the politically correct social justice warriors wanna kiss ass and want everyone with them to kiss ass as well. This is just a fad that will go away in a few years, because normal people are sick with retarded uneducated millenials arguing about things the don't understand and when this goes away, people will be left with all those useless efforts of creating a safe space for those idiots that no one needs anymore.
This game isn't about sex, it's idiotic to add this to the game.
Who's to say that some of the already existing characters aren't straight, it isn't explicitly nor implicitly implied for most of them.