League of Legends Hack Reveals Unreleased Card Game

[IanDavis]

League of Legends Hack Reveals Unreleased Card Game

Riot was once working on a standalone card game entitled Supremacy.

Anonymous sources often have no more credibility than a YouTube video claiming to know what the [a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbT0xy_Jai0]iPhone 6[/a] looks like. As a remedy, potential leakers can reveal their face to the world and become a wanted man, or they can just use someone else's Twitter account as a sock puppet. Last weekend, mystery hacker "Jason" took over Riot boss Marc Merrill's Twitter [a href=http://kotaku.com/hacker-claims-league-of-legends-maker-buried-a-finished-1444626202]to announce[/a] to the world that Riot has a fully-completed card game that remains unpublished.

It all started Sunday when a tweet appeared on Merrill's account saying "Well, I think this would be a good time to show off Riot's card game, who wants to see pictures?", which was signed "Jason (God)". The hacker proceeded to post some login screen artwork and [a href=http://imgur.com/a/FShT3]card templates[/a], revealing the name League of Legends Supremacy. "Jason" claimed that it was a standalone game, and that he has the server and client source code. Eventually, he threatened to upload 200MB's of card images, but instead decided to hand the account back.

Or course, Merrill now has full control of [a href=https://twitter.com/MarcMerrill]his account[/a] once again, and the offending tweets have been deleted. In response, he doesn't deny the leaks, only that they're experimental and hardly a finished product. He claims that "we're always working on a variety of new ideas for League & beyond. Lots of experimentation that may never see the light of day."

While hardly not the most explosive leak in years, it's interesting news nonetheless. If anything, perhaps future leakers can make use of his technique. Imagine if Snowden had spilled forth all his NSA info via Obama's Twitter feed.

Source: [a href=http://kotaku.com/hacker-claims-league-of-legends-maker-buried-a-finished-1444626202]Kotaku[/a]

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[The Wykydtron]

Oh boy, I can't wait until they horrendously fuck up the balance of a card game version as well as the main game.

Still they could have some fun with it.

Europe West: Server Crash

Enemy player skips the next 5 turns, GG Riot

 

[Rad Party God]

Why not?, Blizzard is already making a virtual card game, it would only make sense to jump in.

On the other hand, seeing as how pretty much everyone is making mobas lately, they could also make their own virtual card games :/

 

[Racecarlock]

Virtual Card Games are kind of like using a holodeck to simulate an Xbox. I mean, unless this game at least has cool attack cinematics or something, I probably won't play it. Speaking of which, waiting for duels of the planeswalkers to download was a huge waste of time.

 

[Truniron]

As a huge fan of TCG´s and CCG´s, I would love to try out the game and see how it acctually would work. I can imagine several ways this game would play out, but it´s up to Riot to decide what they will do and personaly, I think Riot could, at least, do a decent job with this card game on IOS and android devices.