Riot Games: Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill

You know, not only do you have to build an incredibly fun game Which is really hard, by the way. There's a lot of really difficult problems to solve there. where it has to work and the system has to scale and has to be able to update and the balance of the game from a math perspective needs to be incredibly precise. You need the content to be compelling, where people fall in love with the characters in the way that somebody would for you know, Batman or you know, any of their favorite superheroes and so there's so many things that you have to get right.

It again, it's like Brandon and I sort of joke that Knowing what we know now. We wouldn't have invested in ourselves back then. PR?

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