Leoliolop, the Spanish community coordinator, has confirmed there
WILL NOT be special Olympic themed skins to celebrate the upcoming
2012 Summer Olympic Games. The
original post is on the EU-W forums and is in Spanish, but here is the surprisingly accurate Google translation:
" As you know, our tendency is to not link actual events in League of Legends. In step we performed similar actions (actual events -> aspects), for example Winter Olympic Games or World Cup. League of Legends But now an international game - played in all the world - and this forces us to think of a more international in introducing real events in the game. Summer Olympic Games, as well as other sporting events will not be present in League of Legends and that is why we will not have issues based on the summer Olympics"
Leoliolop expanded on the above by adding:
"Indeed the Summer Olympic Games are an international event but is a real event. If you followed us during this past year, you may have noticed that all of our themed events that have taken aspects were fictitious, Lunar Delight or Snowdown Showdown . The theme of the aspects related to sporting events like the Olympics is something that Spanish community seems to be very committed. If you help me make a list of events that you consider appropriate to include them to fit within a fictional framework adapted to League of Legends and can offer a framework to create creative aspects that are interesting, lively, original and in a context that solid to the world of League of Legends, I'll be the first to introduce the idea to our producers to be true. In fact, this issue of thematic and general aspects interest me much. If you have further questions or concerns about issues or ideas we are publishing aspects you consider interesting, I'll be in this conversation at your disposal to answer your questions and contribute my knowledge, which is not much, in this area"
So there you have it and I'm sure a number of you, specially those who have been very vocal in the comments section and on twitter, will be bummed out about this announcement.
