[Update] League Of Legends MMO? Only On KickStarter

Thanks to one of our viewers it's come to my attention that somebody is working on a League of Legends MMO, and they've turned to KickStarter to raise $5 million. The ambitious project creator has raised $740 of the exorbitant goal with 56 days to go as of this writing.

Unfortunately for the project creator League of Legends is owned by Chinese conglomerate Tencent. And the company has recently flexed their legal muscles by suing copyright violators in their home country, a land where copyright infringement is as prevalent as the smog hugging Beijing.

However the goal of the project is not to steal Riot Games' assets:

"This project's goal is to get Riot Games to work on this project with us, not to steal or infringe anything whatsoever."

The creator aims to get Riot's attention and support. We'll have to wait and see what Riot thinks of the project.

Would you be interested in playing a League of Legends MMO?

The project creator clarified a few points in a comment below:

Even though your article has a negative connotation of my Kickstarter, I appreciate the feedback you and others are providing.

There is no copyright infringement going on; we're not making the game without Riot (and Tencent for that matter), and the likelihood of this thing hitting the horrendously high goal of $5million is a snowball's chance in hell.

If, by some magical happening, the goal was met and Riot refused the game, I will refund everything.

I'm in this for one thing: to spawn a game I would enjoy playing.

Again, thank you for the article! Have a nice day.