Riot, I know it's said over and over. But please give this a read and just understand the casual com

I know this has probably been repeatedly said to death. I will make a small apology for making it an issue yet again, but Riot... You need to understand, and I mean REALLY truly understand. URF does not harm the game, and it does not harm the player base. You are basing your decision purely off statistics.

I can absolutely assure you those statistics you are trying to throw at us are bogus. You say that URF causes players to leave the game... But you are using a statistic that isn't left around long enough to actually provide realistic numbers. Yes, URF causes people to leave the game, SOLELY because you guys only leave the mode in for around 1-2 weeks as best, and then take it away when players who probably already quit the game (hence your HUGE player spike when the mode is released) come back and have fun in the most loved and most enjoyable mode in the game that you guys have ever released. It's been time and time again nearly unanimously agreed upon by the community that it should be regularly released as a mode for the casual community.

You guys are constantly in this "battle" against "toxic" player simply because their only real release from normals or ranked is either ARAM or your (seldomly released) rotating game mode. First off, you really have no place saying you have any sort of "rotating game mode" when you change it once a month at best, with 2 of those weeks out of the month just not having any mode there at all. ARAM is fun, but only for so long. You provide little to no variety to the community in what they are capable of playing. Hell, you don't even allow any sort of game options in custom games aside from what you specifically desire for your community. You've time and time again been showing that you don't want the community to have fun. You want us to conform to your standards of just static normal/ranked environment or ARAM. And you only brought ARAM in as a permanent mode because players were already going to with or without your "consent" by making custom games that you have essentially shown everyone, was a mistake on your end. Whether you choose to admit it or not, given your regular decision making with the game, you didn't want us to have ARAM. You only gave it to us because if you had taken it away, you would have removed a large part of your community that simply wanted to play the game with friends for fun. But you guys treat that like it's a bad thing if it's anywhere outside the normal summoners rift.

If you want mine and almost ANY casual players honest and serious opinions. Normal summoners rift IS slow. It IS boring, it IS frustrating it IS toxic. No matter how you guys look at it and try to change it. That's not changing. Why? Because most of the casual player base just wants to get home from a hard days work, (pray to ANYTHING) that they can hop into a game of league and HOPE that it's going to be a fun game. HOPE that their team isn't going to flame, HOPE that the game isn't going to last more than 30 minutes, HOPE that the 30+ minutes they are in game isn't going to be the most stressful and worst 30+ minutes of their day. AFTER their shitty full time shift at work.

And why don't you want to release URF as just a normal mode for casual players to get home and have a quick bullshit, no ties, not serious, fun game after a long day? Because it would "split the community more". That's a joke. I'm sorry to say it, but you, I and everyone else KNOWS that's a joke and you are only kidding yourself with that excuse.

And if you want to try and use ARAM as an example, as if "oh well we released ARAM as a regular mode, and sure the player count spiked on release but then it dropped back to normal numbers". In what way is that a bad thing? Please, explain to me in what way you guys balance ARAM. Because the way it seems, you don't. And it's not like that is a problem. People go into ARAM expecting the game to be an imbalanced mess. But that's what makes it fun. And that's exactly what is going on with URF.

You say "URF causes people to leave the game". You want proof that you are both right and wrong? Take ARAM out of the game. Watch your numbers. Because I promise you they would drop. Not because ARAM causes people to leave the game. But because you took away something that was an escape from the normal BS of the regular modes.

You aren't "Splitting the community" by giving them more modes to play. You are strengthening it. The people that decide to come back to play URF only, weren't going to play normals. You only alienate them by taking away the 1 last thing you made that kept them playing. Nobody comes back to play because of Ascension, or 1 for all... Those are modes that can be made in custom games as long as you have a full party that wants to do it. (maybe no ascension) But URF has always been regarded as something special to the community as pretty much a whole. But you refuse to give it to use because of that small faction that is going to get bored of it and not play it like ARAM. The people that leave the game because they got bored of URF, or ARAM, or any other mode you make. Were not going to stick around much longer to begin with. I'm not sure why you guys think they would.

You are making the mistake of sticking to raw data. I've looked at the best provided player count data I can find, and all you guys have ever been trying to do is slow down a steady decline. Sure the numbers may seem somewhat "stagnant" but give any one the charts over the last few years, and your biggest spikes of players are mainly in the new seasons, when you make the biggest changes. You are trying to kid us all by telling us that URF causes players to leave, when new competitive seasons do literally the EXACT same thing.

You make a major overhaul to the game, cause a ton of old and new players to hop in and try things out. Then most of those players get bored and fall off. They quit the game.

How is it any different from when you give us the treat of URF and then take it away? Then numbers fall faster? OF COURSE THEY DO! YOU TOOK AWAY THE ONE THING THAT BROUGHT PLAYERS BACK!

Why do you guys think it's a bad thing that just because URF is in the game, that a part of the community is only going to play URF, as if it's some sort of bad thing? You aren't dividing the community. You a giving another place to play to a community that is already divided. URF, along with ARAM, is just another solution to a problem that essentially you yourselves have created by providing next to no variety to the community to play with.

Nobody is asking you to balance around URF. And if anyone ever did, they would be the minority. We just want variety. We want something else to play.

Hell... If you refuse to release URF... Just give us weekly/bi-weekly/monthly rotating game modes. But stop taking out the modes and putting it in this limbo state where there is nothing there. Just a locked "Rotating game mode" slot with nothing there. It makes the slot as a whole just feel redundant when it's only once and a while without much word of when or what the new mode will be.

Please RIOT... I'm asking on behalf of myself. And a large part of the casual community. The majority of the community that plays your game... Just put in some more BS modes for us to play with... We dont expect any sort of balancing for them. Just put in the mode with the 10 ban system we have, and that will be enough.

Again, I know I am bringing up a topic that has probably been done to death... But I've been playing this game for nearly 6 years. I just want you to understand how badly committed players like me just want a few more game modes to play on a regular basis. Players like me have no plans of going pro, we just play the game for fun. Whether it be alone, or with friends. I/we, just want to be able to make a non-meta pick (say something stupid like garen bot lane) without being called a troll and reported as if it's some sort of problem for me to want to step out of meta and just have fun doing something that, I'll be honest, is stupid.

I just wish you guys could understand what it is to be part of the casual community. because you've regularly proven you don't... If just any of your creative team (not casters) played the game on a regular basis. They would understand what I and many players mean.

Please riot... Just understand... I love this game. I truly do. But lack of variety outside blind pick (which you can get reported for going off meta in that even), is really making it hard to have actual fun in your game.