The popular MOBA League of Legends has been distributed through its own launcher for a long time. However, games based on the universe of this franchise, published under the Riot Forge brand, are released on several services at once, such as Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG.
Reddit user under the nickname LurkingParticipant decided inquire, should we expect the original League of Legends on Steam, to which we will receive a negative answer from the senior vice president and head of Riot Games Andrez ‘Meddler’ van Roon. According to him, the projects from Riot Forge are single and aimed at an audience that has not necessarily played the main game, so they take a different approach when selling them.
“We have no plans to do this at this time. (release League of Legends on Steam – translator’s note). The Forge games are a very different proposition as they are single-player, completeable, aiming to be accessible to an audience that hasn’t necessarily played League before. As a result, we took a different approach to distribution,” the statement said.
It is noteworthy that games from Riot Games, such as League of Legends, Valorant, Legends of Runeterra and Teamfight Tactics, although not released on Steam, are available on the Epic Games Store and Microsoft Store. However, even there they are launched through their own launcher.
