Why doesn't Riot make the game modes permanent?

Mdluli·Sep 24, 2016·4 votes·1,941 views

I don't understand why Riot rotates the fun game modes and why they don't allow us to play them at all sometimes.

Why doesn't Riot just keep them all active so we can play them anytime as well as have a choice of what game mode we feel like playing?

I heard people say that some people ruin URF by making it less about fun and more about winning so Riot takes it away to keep it fresh and just about fun. Some say it's so that we don't get board with the game modes. If bugs or balance is the issue, then why not just update it with new patches like normal?

In my opinion, Riot should just keep them up and leave the decision on when and how we play them up to us. I mean, DotA (1 and 2) has allowed that to happen for years and the world hasn't ended! So what's Riot's reason behind not letting us play freely?

12 Comments

SHELLSHOCKER69Sep 24, 20164 votes

IDK why urf mode isnt permanent. no good explanation can be out there. The queue times are like a bot game. I just dont get it myself. I dont really care for any of the other game modes tbh, but urf is just toooo fun. Especially earlier when i got a penta with veigar :)

SalronMar 26, 20181 votes

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IDK why urf mode isnt permanent. "no good explanation can be out there"

https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2017/12/ask-riot-urf/

CaítlynSep 24, 20164 votes

Theres really no reason. Zero. I dont mind waiting in long Q times if I can play the game I want.

S0kaXSep 24, 20163 votes

I really want to play nexus siege any time I want

JayHog1992Sep 24, 20162 votes

Simple reason, imagine if we had like 10 gamemodes perma.

Besides the tryhards playing ranked to rank up and people playing norms for easier S ranks for the level 7 system. You would be dividing the playerbase of all servers by those 10 gamemodes, which means that some might not be playable because of little players, queue times would be longer than a diamond player in ranked, not to mention that if there's a troll in the audience ready to dodge, that's another long ass waiting time to get in the game.

Basicaly, even if we're lots of people playing the game, depending on timezones and such, could STILL not be enough to have them all spread out enough just to never play a game again.

MdluliSep 24, 20162 votes

Fair enough.

But not all 10 modes should be kept. They should permanently remove the others that are not popular simply because they aren't good enough.

I would bet that if all modes were up, URF would have a decent Q time and other modes like Poro King would die. But that's survival of the fittest! Riot should push to make better game modes rather than trying to keep unpopular ones alive.

ModWulf HelhammerSep 24, 20161 votes

All of them are fairly popular. And that's not fair to people that like those other modes that they get removed.

nyxekaNov 28, 20172 votes

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Simple reason, imagine if we had like 10 gamemodes perma.

Besides the tryhards playing ranked to rank up and people playing norms for easier S ranks for the level 7 system. You would be dividing the playerbase of all servers by those 10 gamemodes, which means that some might not be playable because of little players, queue times would be longer than a diamond player in ranked, not to mention that if there's a troll in the audience ready to dodge, that's another long ass waiting time to get in the game.

Basicaly, even if we're lots of people playing the game, depending on timezones and such, could STILL not be enough to have them all spread out enough just to never play a game again.

This is wrong.

Look at DOTA 2. They have hundreds of game modes and you can usually find a game pretty quick. for their arcade mode mods (custom games made by users), they even host servers, and you can find games typically in a few minutes for the less popular ones that are still played. People just need to accept that they might be playing against different skill levels in the various un-balanced game modes.

Anyways, DOTA 2 can have 10 different official and 30 different unofficial game-modes, and it's still easy to queue up and get in a game within ten minutes (TOPS, usually its around 1-2 min), so this kinda proves that you can have lots of game modes on a popular game and still find matches for everyone,.

FrostFlame HellDec 3, 20171 votes

Easy counter argument, DOTA does it and they're fine. Your points are invalid due to the existence of another, more flexible game.

JayHog1992Dec 4, 20171 votes

I heard it the first time. Points to 2 posts above yours.

KotetsuTatsumakiNov 28, 20171 votes

They would get stale and overdone after a while. Also the queue all around would slow down if there were a dozen game modes available all the time.

What I wan't to focus on more is getting some of the modes Riot has forgotten about. I miss Black Market Brawlers and Defiantly Not Dominion, Nemesis Draft, etc... I'd even be happy to see some form of Hexakill again. Really I'm just sick and tired of Ascension all the time. Overcharge is great but I'm afraid it's either going to disappear off the face of the earth or become overused in the rotation after the event is over.

terralinks99Mar 26, 20181 votes

If Riot wants to make this game great they should really try to enlarge the variety of maps and gamemodes available at all times. I'm fucking sick and tired of only being able to play 5v5 Summoners Rift.... Twisted Treelineis only played by autofilled bots....and ARAm is a all random which fking sucks.... So I guess something like a permanent gamemode add would definitly refresh this boringass game.