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Can we have a Riot's response regarding AR/URF?

FireThornzZ·7/11/2017, 11:00:41 AM·44 votes·3,908 views

As we all know it AR/URF is one of the most (if not most) desired fun mode by the League Community. However, for some reason RIOT don't want to bring up this mode as often as people would like it to.

What's worse is, they try to avoid the topic about why AR/URF is barely ever available, with best of their abilities. RIOT claims that Poro King and Ascension is one of the most favorite game mode of League Community (which I highly doubt, but won't care to question such claim knowing it's no use) so they just make them available on every weekends while they take their time to build up other game modes available on new client.

Now there are people who believes the reason why RIOT don't bring URF as often is because "people will sooner or later get bored of that game mode and it will become useless". But if this situation is true for AR/URF, then surely it must hold true for other game modes like Poro King and Ascension as well, right?

But then again, this thread is not made ranting about Poro King and Ascension but to know reasoning about why AR/URF isn't given as much love by RIOT, so let's ignore the excessive amount of presence of these modes for now.

Also, people believes that RIOT tries to avoid AR/URF because of all the ranting on boards after the mode is active, regarding how "I only want URF and ARURF SUCKS, I WANNA PLAY CHAMP I WANT!" "ARURF Sucks, the game is decided before it even begins!!" or "URF sucks, people always take only the strongest champs, pls nerf these champs in URF!!" and bla bla bla.

To me it looks nothing different than rage-ranting on boards after losing a game on League to an "X" champion. Looks at Yasuo/Lee Sin

So the ranting will always be going on, regardless the AR/URF mode, on one topic or another.

Well, enough about what "people thinks". What I'm interested in is an official response from RIOT about their reasoning on why AR/URF is barely ever available to us players.

-Is it because people would play AR/URF more than the real original game mode? If Yes, why is it a bad thing considering it will be available only on weekends?

-Is it because AR/URF being present often will result in the mode losing it's importance/interest to players? If Yes, why do you think the situation doesn't hold true for other game modes?

-Is the need to balance the newly released champions for the mode, reworked items too much time taking and not worth the work?

Please share with us, whatever reason you believe is responsible for not being able to deliver AR/URF more often to the League Community.

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68 Comments

korg0237/11/2017, 12:24:40 PM12 votes

CAN RIOT JUST MAKE STRAWPOLL AND SEE WHAT PEOPLE WANT LOL!?

Eeyore7/11/2017, 3:37:42 PM8 votes

URF requires a lot more maintenance than game modes that use the default ruleset. All new or altered content needs testing with URF ruleset. However, testing URF is expensive due to its popularity and the scope of issues that can occur - while URF is active on the PBE, almost all other PBE faculties cease. There becomes a queue time to log-in. People stop testing new content and just start logging in to play URF.

Poro King is stable enough that it can be enabled without a significant risk of issues.

Melledoneus7/12/2017, 10:39:34 AM7 votes

It is to my knowledge that URF is very difficult to put up because of the following reasons:

  1. URF takes a tremendous amount of resources to run. Excess particles, sounds, and game modifiers on millions of games at the same time makes URF a nightmare to keep running without slowing down other modes on the server, especially ranked queues.

  2. URF/ARURF has been a problem in general to run because of player satisfaction. Problems like diversity, players creating a "meta," and overall toxicity over URF picks makes it difficult for Riot to make the mode enjoyable for longer rather than for the first day or two.

  3. Their teams are working on making kick-ass features and improving larger flaws in the game (rather than a game mode that shows up occasionally), so their attention cannot be divided or else we won't see new and improved features like runes, masteries, and a better client come to fruition as quickly to fix the issues seen in point 2.

  4. This one is pure speculation by me. If I were Riot I would make URF a rare mode to increase the demand for it. Also, every time URF comes out we get a new set of skins, so there is a marketing aspect to it. URF is a special event that we see rarely BECAUSE it is special. It would lose a lot of its magic if it wasn't, and the demand for it and its skins would decline immensely if we had it twice a year. Not to mention URF skins would crowd out other potential skins because of how often they would have to be made.

I may not be a Rioter (I'm sorry to disappoint), but this is what the situation is as far as I see it and it is not knowledge that is exclusive in any way. I love URF, too, but I hope this sheds some light on the subject.

hhaavviikk7/11/2017, 12:05:07 PM5 votes

I have the same problem with URF as I do with poro king mode, which is people just pick the most OP champions in that game mode punishing anyone want to try something random in that game mode

Kloqdq7/11/2017, 12:55:58 PM5 votes

I mean I just want something else. I know like 2 people that like Ascension and one of them is myself. No one else I know likes Poro King and I hate ARAM re-skinned. I just wish we would get something different for once. Those modes are just lackluster.

Pierce The Veal7/12/2017, 7:08:00 AM4 votes

We can't release Urf because people like it more than the actual game we're playing.

Report for Wuju7/11/2017, 1:13:11 PM4 votes

I'd like to be able to play it at least it custom games, would be pretty neat

koshkyra7/11/2017, 1:45:43 PM2 votes

ARURF is just plain horrible.. id rather play ARAM (which i quite like atm.)

URF. I should love URF, because why wouldnt I? Well, heres why.

I like to pick fun URF things like full ap Janna and full ad Leblanc. However, i cannot enjoy this because all i see every game is

Sona Shaco Syndra Evelynn Morgana AnnieBlitzcrank Brand Yasuo

The gamemode is no longer fun for me since I can only ban one champion on the list while everyone else will ban their own personal hatreds.

Kryptone7/11/2017, 8:01:26 PM2 votes

Funny that you even expected a red comment on a thread talking about AR/URF. :D

RITO would rather make Poro King a permanent gamemode than releasing URF thrice an year.

You know how everybody hate Yasuo but don't even know why? Similarly RIOT hates URF and they don't know why.