Why was Dominion removed?

BearExperiment·8/4/2016, 3:06:46 AM·2 votes·2,995 views

This game severely lacks content, why bother to remove any of what little extra content exists?

Summoners Rift doesn't really work for competitive gameplay anyways cause this game has become too streamlined for such a small map. Went from being slower paced with very specialized characters, and few highly mobile characters (Kassadin, Nidalee) to just a mosh pitt of power creeped, lightning fast, all-in-one super battle droids. Everybody nukes, jumps, and basically does the same thing. Jump at a target and throw your keyboard at them. The map is too small and lacks intricacy for these terminators.

Dominion was perfect if I ever wanted to come back to this game on the occasion. Why bother removing something you put time and resources in to create? I could understand not creating any new maps or game modes, but why remove Dominion instead of just leaving it alone and never updating it?

15 Comments

Reikken8/4/2016, 3:55:15 AM2 votes

It was removed because it wasn't an instant runaway success and it was released at about the same time their esports took off, and that was an instant runaway success. So rather than split resources to balancing and updating another map, they focused all of their resources into what was working better. So Dominion, left unattended in its unpolished state, withered and died until no one played it anymore.

At that point it wasn't even worth the resources needed to fix major bugs that arose with new updates (every update to mechanics or items or etc. also impacted Dominion). So they deleted it.

Caítlyn8/4/2016, 3:09:31 AM1 votes

Because it sucked

I do agree we need more content tho, just not dominion

Calabok8/4/2016, 3:11:06 AM1 votes

They already stated why when they did it. Go and look at the past news.

D3m37r18/4/2016, 3:20:54 AM1 votes

Dominion was removed because it was sh*t and no one really played it. Riot didn't even care about it. Also did you really just say the SR isn't really suited to competitive play? Every MOBA has the 3 lane map and in most of them it's the only one where ranked can be played. Also you act like you will never see dominion again.

Jaze Medford8/4/2016, 3:34:53 AM1 votes

Because no one played it.

MRHARDtaco8/4/2016, 3:45:13 AM1 votes

I thought it was something to do with not having to balance another game mode.