You better hope Arcane season 2 brings in some good numbers, as the League of Legends show is reportedly the most expensive animated series of all time

Seems like someone might have put on one to many zeros there.

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Netflix is sure to be hoping to pull in some big numbers with Arcane season 2, as the entire show is apparently the most expensive animated series ever.

For context, that makes it the most expensive animated series ever made, whether that be on streaming or traditional TV. According to sources that spoke with Variety, this spending is apparently a reflection of Riot’s inexperience when it comes to entertainment production (presumably TV entertainment, given that games are, you know, entertainment, and League of Legends is wildly successful). Riot co-founder Marc Merrill did stress to Variety in a statement that the developer’s “ambitions in entertainment haven’t changed.

“We were never intending to operate like a traditional studio with traditional timelines. What did change as we learned more was our expectations of ourselves: We realized that getting it right takes a lot more time than we’d originally expected, and so we recalibrated our development, output goals and teams with that in mind.”

Merrill didn’t comment on the cost of the show directly, but did say “We’re more than comfortable with the spend it took to deliver a show that was worthy of our players’ time,” so whether or not it was as much of a hit as it needed to be financially or not is a bit irrelevant to Riot it seems.

Arcane season 2 is also the show’s final season, though Riot does have intentions to make more shows, so perhaps we’ll get a broader look at the world of League of Legends in future series - they’ll probably cost less, though.

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