UPVOTE FOR URF

Gengar·Apr 1, 2016·2,440 votes·80,684 views

I think it's interesting how almost the entire community wants something so simple / beneficial to Riot's $$$ but it gets put off until some "Rotating Queue". Give us URF!!

606 Comments

BergkApr 1, 2016165 votes

I literally used a week's vacation to take off work for the next 7 days so I could enjoy URF since it only comes around once a year.... I look forward to URF more than any holiday or birthday. UGH Im so sad, now I get to spend the next 7 days sitting at home with nothing to do but hate Riot.

DEEPDADEEPApr 1, 201634 votes

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I literally used a week's vacation to take off work for the next 7 days so I could enjoy URF since it only comes around once a year.... I look forward to URF more than any holiday or birthday. UGH Im so sad, now I get to spend the next 7 days still at home with nothing to do but hate Riot.

u are not only one, me and couple of friends take a week vacation and prepare to have some fun. we were so excited. but seeing no urf .. we hate riot so much now. this is just straight up middle finger to people cant follow riot news 24-7

DevlinCrowApr 1, 201637 votes

They said ages ago it wouldn't be released on April 1st. It's your fault and your fault alone, stop bashing Riot

AírApr 1, 201648 votes

They said last year that they were not releasing it but they did. I think we all just hoped it would be an April Fool's joke.

DevlinCrowApr 1, 201638 votes

Doesn't matter, it's still silly to book a week off work not knowing whether or not the gamemode will be delivered and then complain when it isn't

DiebusterFanApr 1, 201696 votes

It is advisable to not prioritize silly April Fools game modes over your career, especially when those game modes have been announced as not happening. Please keep this in mind for the future.

ElricShintoApr 1, 201620 votes

They said last year it wasn't happening and it did.

AbyssphereApr 1, 201624 votes

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They said last year it wasn't happening and it did.

Last year pretending it wasn't gonna happen had an actual joke to it - "Lol no URF cos we think this really really shit gamemode that's the exact opposite of it is way better!!!" is not in any world comparable to "Ok so we're doing a new gamemode queue, here's lots of details about it - unfortunately URF won't be coming back on April 1st because of it, but it will be here later in the year".

If you thought this year was the same as last year you were very stupid.

yay nibbersApr 1, 201613 votes

Don't forget that they did the NURF joke the day before April Fools while this year's Rotating Game Queue was announced almost a month ago...

KrugLyfeApr 1, 201679 votes

He didn't put it ahead of his career he just used his vacation time for something different

redniwediSApr 1, 2016140 votes

I'm still waiting to play NURF...

DecritApr 1, 201655 votes

You can play nunu.

That brings pretty much the same feel...

BolwinkelApr 1, 201631 votes

It's so slow paced it's still in development.

Verita NostraApr 1, 201667 votes

The Draven heads are horrible, why Riot thought this would be acceptable in place of URF is beyond me.

PiJellyPinApr 1, 201656 votes

what a fucking disease waking up , and all they do on 1 April is making more money on there fucking new skins, URF where are you :(

PrismatikatApr 1, 201648 votes

I waited a whole year and me and all of my friends just sit around talking about URF and how excited we are for it and talk about some inside jokes and strategies. URF helped me be happy through a hard time and to not see it this year makes me truly sad... Please Rito you already released bard... you troll us enough all year long... Just let us have this one thing just for a while.

[zombie-nunu-tears]

DecritApr 1, 201647 votes

Sorry.

This is not urf time.

It is DRAVEN TIME

FearEngineerApr 1, 2016190 votes

Draven Day SUCKS

ShantyKingApr 1, 201658 votes

I think they know that nobody would be excited about Draven Day. They set this whole joke up when they announced a while back that there would be no URF on April 1 2016. They know that everybody is thinking: well, if not URF, it must be some other truly epic game mode! Then they give you Draven Day with all this Draven crap everywhere and sloppily designed Draven heads slapped on every champ, hiding Teemo and whatnot. Total disappointment. So they let it ride until later, or even tomorrow, being the sadistic bastards that they seem to be and THEN drop URF. Bad joke though.

DartExplosion10Apr 1, 201626 votes

god i hope you're right.

InSynccApr 1, 201633 votes

WE FUCKING WAITED A WHOLE YEAR RIOT!

Trading AcesApr 1, 201629 votes

Gotta say losing my love for URF cause of you asshats. This bullshit literally stymies any kind of creative freedom Riot has. They've already bloody announced that URF will make appearances later this year.

DiebusterFanApr 1, 201631 votes

Rito: "Oh gee we'll make a funny game mode that's kinda stupid for a short while"

People like it

Rito: "Sweet, we can put that on our new rotating queue that people have been wanting for a while. Let's try another funny kinda stupid thing for April Fools"

A few people are outraged and all cluster and upvote eachother and complain and clog up the boards.

BiscuitWitchApr 1, 201650 votes

The problem is that none of this is funny. Maybe it's just me being a stick in the mud, but after the first two minutes of draven heads, it's gets old real fast. They're not part of the champ model, it's just a picture that always faces the camera. It just feels lazy. The problem is the contrast. You can't argue that URF isn't different from regular play. 80% CDR makes things a lot more different. But this is just same game with different models. If you play ranked/draft anyways, then nothing changed. Well, other than a few skins, but those are released every other week. For the last 2 years April First had an entertaining game mode, so we feel dissapointed when a 'new, fun, exciting game mode' causes a. champ readability issues and b. no actual relevance to the game. Just my two cents.

DragonOfTheVoidApr 1, 20168 votes

85% this year xD

KongoIApr 2, 201627 votes

Last year during April, my unit was overseas on deployment in Kuwait and Iraq. During this deployment, I learned that some of my battle buddies were league fans and even had a few occasions to play league together during out pre deployment phase and it helped them settle their minds.

None the less, during April we started talking about how amazing URF mode was the year before and how we wished we were able to play the game mode together. We also talked about how it we would be back home to enjoy the mode in 2016 since we would be coming home a month before April.

2 extensions and 26 months later, we all came back late February of 2016. Needless to say, we were excited to come back to our wives, children for those of us that had them, and our civilian lives. We kept in touch and started playing league together when we could. Talk of finally getting to play URF together after missing it the previous year.

Well, we all know how this story turned out. Long story short, URF to my fellow battles and I was going to be a 2 week holiday during our recovery period after deployment to really get to know, connect, play together, and learn more about each other. This same feeling is felt by the majority of the League Community as well.

I'm not sure why I'm really writing all of this. I suppose it's with a heavy heart and maybe even out of frustration, but seeing a tradition being replaced by something else was rather disheartening. Please, RIOT, keep the very much loved tradition alive! We are all still hurting from our tradition of Hide and Seek being destroyed with the removal of Dominion. I even wrote about this as well, but I digress.

#KillingOurTraditions

FerrrrrrrApr 1, 201625 votes

NOT funny riot, NOT

[zombie-nunu-bummed]

Yash GautamApr 1, 201622 votes

The thing is that there's no reason NOT to release it to us.

PinkboxerApr 1, 201622 votes

Been playing this game for four years maybe more. I wrote on forums twice. Vuck riot! We wanted urf. So disappointing.

BockNakApr 1, 201619 votes

+1 For URF, this whole Draven thing is just a cosmetic joke. So stupid...

ProZedApr 1, 201617 votes

Hey. We put draven everywhere. Now buy all of our 20 overpriced bundles

BoiUnstopApr 1, 201616 votes

ULM (URF LIFE MATTERS)

I am going on a League of Legends strike until Rito brings URF back.

Humble FungusApr 1, 201613 votes

Yea.. I'm in that boat with you. I have a bunch of friends who are also pissed and feel the same way. Until I pull up the site and see a "Oh lawdy, URF has taken Draven's birthday cake!" or something like it.. I think I'll just play other games.

Fishee666Apr 1, 201611 votes

Im with you on this one dude, not playing this Draven shit until i get to play my Urf....

Kid With DownsApr 1, 201616 votes

I've waited a whole year for urf... I Cri

Garnet DustApr 1, 201614 votes

NO URF NO PEACE!

Pupper LoverApr 1, 201612 votes

"Almost the entire community" is a very large statement to make. I think you mean there is a vocal group of folks who wanted Urf to happen. I'd honestly wager that most of the community hasn't even commented on this specific event at all. Urf would have been cool, but I think this Draven event is a lot of fun. You should give it a go.

Let's get some more positive vibes up in here. :]

Ezreal

DrCyanideApr 1, 201622 votes

I gave it a go on ARAM last night. Found myself wishing the head would disappear on my first death, and was disappointed it didn't. I was on blue side playing Rumble, so it never even looked close to being right.

The minions are fine and dandy, the skins are alright, but I think I'll take that invitation to Amumu's party now, I've already had my fill of Draven's.

Kaiser WarlockApr 1, 201611 votes

Don't know why Riot are acting like this is a good idea, stop being tools and give us URF and as often as you can, you guys/girls have no idea how much this means to us..

SmorrowApr 1, 201611 votes

The Draven heads look legit the dumbest thing I;ve ever seen, bring us URF.

megomylegoApr 2, 201610 votes

my heart is literally broken :(

DeloricVIApr 2, 20169 votes

Wow, does this not scream just how entitled this community is. We don't want to wait for 2 weeks of URF when rotating queue comes out, we want our week or URF NOW, NOW, NOW. And then you hide behind cries of corporate greed on Riot's end, just because they released Joke Skins, like they do every April Fool's Day. The only thing they didn't do was URF, and it was explained well in advance. If people would keep up with the media Riot puts out, they would know this. This would not be a surprise.

How are you going to blame a company that tells you in advance that they're going to do something nice, at the cost of something you would like to happen just one time. They said, (paraphrased) "we know the community loves urf mode, and we get it. But this year, we're working to bring in a rotating queue, so that you can experience urf more often during the year, as well as other fun game modes that used to just be temporary."

But no, this thread is just the equivalent of the children banging on the the table for their dessert, pissing and moaning about how much they think they deserve instant gratification because they shouted loud enough.

PocketsMcGeeApr 2, 20168 votes

Do you care for an actual answer to what you asked? Or are you just being a dick?

DeloricVIApr 2, 20165 votes

If you're willing to answer, go ahead. I'd love to hear it, and where the hate is coming from.

Also, the way I see it this community are the "dicks" in this situation. Trying to push Riot around and delay their plans, screaming and making a fuss in hopes that riot will stop what they're doing just to cater to you because you missed the memo. Now, I'm not trying to say that they're perfect. I'll admit, there's a lot I don't like about Riot. Hell, look at my profile on the forums and you'll see me complaining about the easily-abused dynamic queue system and the AD favoritism Riot seems to have, but this thread is something that doesn't need to exist. I'm only defending them because they have every right not to release URF at the time, and they warned everyone. Why did no one make a fuss then? These are both questions I would love to hear explanations for. If you can convince me that this thread is necessary (I will give you the benefit of the doubt), consider me both impressed and on your side.

PocketsMcGeeApr 2, 201625 votes

Well ill make a list

First off starting with the most recent, and most often quoted, the post that on the league page for a single day talking about the rotating game mode. It did say that they were not releasing urf on the first, but you should go back to that and read the comments, it was VERY obvious that everyone took it as a joke, and riot even encouraged that way of thinking by the replies they made. It seemed to us such an impossible (and as you can see unpopular) decision that it HAD to be a joke. For the rest of the people who might of missed logging in when that was up, this came as a total surprise to them, and I am sure you can understand their confusion.

Secondly these fires are only getting hotter the more riot ignores them. It is impossible they are blind to the outcry and rage being vomited here, but they refuse to give any sort of statement or update, something we desperately need right now. I have never seen an official riot post get down voted so hard, they should say something.

Third, concerning the "OMG GREEDY RIOT" thing. Yes I do see the event as a bit of a cash grab, and im sure despite all this nonsense it did well, but there are so many people that feel betrayed, hurt, and very sad over this turn of events that they will turn to whatever thing they feel will get them heard. In this case its "we pay your bills fucking listen to us", which in their defense works for any other game company of this size, but riot just doesn't seem to care.

Leauge of legends is by its nature a very addicting game, and they know (and we know that they know) that most of these people are not going to stop playing because of this upset, and that only serves to upset the people more. We currently feel like the majority of players are all asking for the same thing, in a way that has never really happened before, and the company, who we do in deed fund, are straight up ignoring us. That's bound to set a few more people off.

Finally there is the people like you, who for no reason I can understand, are taking it as a personal offense that we are upset at something riot did. Its like when a political scandal happens, sure there will be a few people who stand by their official , but when the masses start sharpening the pitch forks its a little past that.

Urf is something very special to a large group of people, not even the ones out there spamming away for probably the same reasons you flame them. They just want to be apart of a bandwagon, for or against. Speaking for myself I "got" urf, something about it just clicked with me. The champions that people consider "OP" barely make my list of playable, because it is its own game, something fast enough for me, and always fun, win or loose.

Oh and as far as the whole "You will get urf later" thing goes, offering us less then half the urf we would of gotten, spread out whenever the feel like it, is a slap in the face. (And the rotating game mode isn't even out yet, you know...that thing that was suppose to come out today?)

SakaruApr 2, 20169 votes

Pretty well written assessment of the normal reasoning for people's outrage; I was hoping you or someone would write something like this up. Since I'm more personally invested, I didn't feel it was my place to.

I definitely agree, from my point; with the lack of statement from Riot fueling things. When it so genuinely affects someone close to you.. All you really want is at least some kind of genuine statement from the people responsible. It's not like I expect to be able to change their minds, I know they don't care since people will still keep playing. But it'd be nice if they at least cared enough to 'say' something.

It's not like this isn't hurting anyone, it's hurting plenty of children. Some worse than others. As well as many older than that who simply look forward to this as a sort of stress release, a genuine holiday that they had cancelled on them. Some people used up vacation days, because they have nothing else to really look forward to each year. That says something about how big URF actually is to people.

SwaggyPuffinApr 2, 20169 votes

I read the article when they released it, about urf not coming april first and i did take it seriously. I was crushed then and i'm still crushed and utterly disappointed. I love riot for bringing in the rotating queue thing, and draven day was humorous.. for a very short while.. but what i fail to understand is how riot could take away what was essentially a religious holiday in the league community. URF was like Christmas, or Hanukkah, something everyone waited an entire year for in giddy anticipation. so, with that being said, and with a large majority of the league community being upset by this i have to ask. why couldn't you just release urf on the day that we all waited for and expected it to appear on? Is it effecting your rotating queue progress? i really just want to know the reason why you intentionally let so many people down, despite the promises of the rotating queue and urf more than once a year.

Galatyn PlanckApr 1, 20167 votes

Since when does people playing URF make them want to go, "HEY, I SHOULD BUY THAT SKIN I'VE WANTED FOR AWHILE NOW, BUT ONLY IF I CAN USE IT TO PLAY MUH URF HURRDurR"

Or something like that...

GengarApr 1, 201633 votes

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Since when does people playing URF make them want to go, "HEY, I SHOULD BUY THAT SKIN I'VE WANTED FOR AWHILE NOW, BUT ONLY IF I CAN USE IT TO PLAY MUH URF HURRDurR"

Or something like that...

Urf is more exciting on April 1st which = likelihood of purchasing the bundles in fun. This Draven event was cute for a couple of minutes but now.... it's not exciting to me, and probably a bunch of other people who played just 1 game.

DartExplosion10Apr 1, 201623 votes

i played one game with draven heads and its the last im going to play. it is such a bad idea. why cant we just get urf?