Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent has confirmed that the premiere of the second season of Arcane will not take place until the end of 2023, which is disappointing to many fans. Laurent cited quality concerns and the delayed start of the project as reasons for the delay.
Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent has provided an update on the Arcane Season 2 release window , and unfortunately it will be much later than viewers expected. Following the debut of the League of Legends animated series in 2021 , Netflix announced that it was maintaining a partnership with Riot to develop a sequel to Arcane . However, since then, no details about the new season have been revealed, which has resulted in a growing wave of questions. Unfortunately, it seems that the shortage of information may last even until the end of this year.
In a recent interview with LPL caster Guan Ze Yuan, Laurent confirmed that Arcane will be released in late 2023 at the earliest. He shared his enthusiasm for the progress made on the series after watching the third episode of season 2. However, in response to those eagerly awaiting more Arcane , Laurent made it clear that they would have to wait until next year.
[The series] is not ready yet, and there are two reasons for that. First, it’s about quality. We just don’t want to rush it, so it takes time. This is a good reason. The bad reason is that we honestly didn’t know if Season 1 was going to be a success, so we didn’t start working on Season 2 before then. Had I known that, we could have started working on Season 2 much earlier. But we didn’t know, so we had to wait, and now we’re suffering the consequences. Unfortunately, it will not be released this year.
Laurent said when asked about the progress of Arcane Season 2 .
While Laurent’s announcement regarding the delayed release of the sequel may be depressing, the reasoning behind the delay is understandable. This time, however, there is hope that season three will get the green light much earlier, so Fortiche Production can start the project sooner. This would probably give a much shorter waiting time for the premiere of ‘three’ after the end of season 2 (which has not yet been officially confirmed).