Riot MMO: what is left of the 2021 vision after the reset
Open world, action combat, raids, housing, respect for your time: every promise Greg Street made in 2021, and our estimate of whether it survived the reset.
Section
Analysis
Longer arguments about the project. What the 2024 reset cost, what the layoffs meant for it, and what an MMO on this scale has to get right.
Riot MMO vs World of Warcraft: what each side actually has
Riot has hired World of Warcraft's producer, combat lead and an engineer to build a game meant to be unlike it. What each side brings, and why it is not a duel.
Riot MMO release date: why 'before 2030' and not sooner
Riot has given exactly one date for its MMO, and it is a ceiling. How to read 'before 2030', where the 2028 estimate came from, and what a reset costs in years.
The March 2026 Riot MMO cancellation rumour, taken apart
One night in March 2026, a leak about a Valorant shooter became a headline about the Runeterra MMO. What was claimed, and how the name crossed over.
Project T: Riot's other MMO, and why it is not this one
Riot has two MMO-shaped games in development: the Runeterra MMORPG, and a Valorant-universe shooter called Project T. Confusing them cancelled the wrong game once.
When Riot offered up to $500 million for Ashes of Creation
In December 2022 Riot's CFO offered to buy the studio behind Ashes of Creation. The deal died, a lawsuit surfaced it, Merrill confirmed it. What it says.
Why the Riot MMO survived the purge when Hytale did not
Between 2024 and 2026 Riot closed a label, cancelled a game it owned and halved a team weeks after launch. The MMO was reset instead. What that tells you.
Will the Riot MMO be free-to-play? What Riot's record says
Probably, and it was the plan before the 2024 reset. But an MMO is the one genre where Riot's model breaks in specific ways. The case for, and the case against.