The development and open beta of League of Legends: Wild Rift seems to be experiencing one delay after another in 2020. The open beta servers of the League of Legends- based mobile game were supposed to be live by the first half of 2020. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the game's release has been delayed, and by the end of game 2020, Riot Games seems to be struggling even to set up regional beta servers. Riot Games ' Executive Producer , Michael Chow , said in a recent tweet that Wild Rift 's development is facing all the challenges and open beta servers in India, North America and South America.He talked about why he was delayed in regions such as
A message to Wild Rift's 2021 beta regions from executive producer, Michael Chow
— League of Legends: Wild Rift (@wildrift) October 26, 2020
(also available on @wildriftBR @wildriftLATAM ) pic.twitter.com/G5qMe8ia0V
However, the Wild Rift development team's problem does not end there, as recent developments indicate that region-specific open beta versions are experiencing serious technical difficulties. Phase one of Wild Rift 's open beta went live on Android yesterday in the following regions:
Indonesia, Japani, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Timor-Leste
It seems that the game was giving more bugs at release than actual game content.
Due to some technical issues with the regional Open beta release, the release of iOS was delayed. Related to this, the release of the #wildrift animated film has also been postponed. pic.twitter.com/oc1FkCYhnW
— Wild Rift News (@wildriftNEWS) October 28, 2020
In a recent tweet, " Wild Rift News" mentioned that the release of the game for the iOS platform will be delayed due to technical issues of the open beta version.