Someone needs to nut up and go confront their boss about Nexus Blitz.

[{quoted}](name=RekSai CoffeeCo,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=4EfXQZyW,comment-id=00010000,timestamp=2020-02-02T13:53:06.919+0000)

Oh yeah the selective stat/doctored data pic to justify trying their best to not run any more RGM, i just need to point to their reply to the question as it shows their bias.

Hmm no ranked for Nexus blitz/Aram yet TFT gets ranked (wonder why and wonder why (besides shop stuff) riot liked TFT to run it and playrate was so high at start lol)

FYI Nexus Blitz was run between slowest part of year btw.

https://riotnews.co/lol/when-will-urf-return-to-lol-when-will-arurf-end/

ARAM doesnt get ranked because a ranked ARAM game mode makes no logical sense.

[{quoted}](name=RekSai CoffeeCo,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=4EfXQZyW,comment-id=00010000,timestamp=2020-02-02T13:53:06.919+0000)

Oh yeah the selective stat/doctored data pic to justify trying their best to not run any more RGM, i just need to point to their reply to the question as it shows their bias.

Hmm no ranked for Nexus blitz/Aram yet TFT gets ranked (wonder why and wonder why (besides shop stuff) riot liked TFT to run it and playrate was so high at start lol)

FYI Nexus Blitz was run between slowest part of year btw.

https://riotnews.co/lol/when-will-urf-return-to-lol-when-will-arurf-end/

Boom! This person gets it.

[{quoted}](name=RekSai CoffeeCo,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=4EfXQZyW,comment-id=00010000,timestamp=2020-02-02T13:53:06.919+0000)

Oh yeah the selective stat/doctored data pic to justify trying their best to not run any more RGM, i just need to point to their reply to the question as it shows their bias.

Hmm no ranked for Nexus blitz/Aram yet TFT gets ranked (wonder why and wonder why (besides shop stuff) riot liked TFT to run it and playrate was so high at start lol)

FYI Nexus Blitz was run between slowest part of year btw.

https://riotnews.co/lol/when-will-urf-return-to-lol-when-will-arurf-end/

How is this biased??

Riot is a company. They want to make money. If people aren’t playing the gamemode then there’s no point in developing it anymore.

Hell, they even gave it another chance after the initial run to fix some problems and see if they could make the gamemode popular. Let it go.

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That doesn´t mean nobody played it. Removing a mode because it´s not as popular as URF just proves that RIOT don´t care about their players

If hardly anyone plays it why keep it. You’ll never be able to make every player happy, but if you make a product that can make more People happy instead of trying to fix a product that many people clearly don’t like- why wouldn’t you make a new product?

[{quoted}](name=Icy Hot Shoto,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=4EfXQZyW,comment-id=00010002,timestamp=2020-02-02T17:29:26.319+0000)

Can't have as much interest with an 18-minute-per-game mode event when like 80% of the missions are "get x reward x amount of times" or "get in sleigh x amount of times" when the rewards not only are RANDOM but also require your team to win the event(s) to get them without getting burnt out of the game.

And yet Riot discontinued it because of all the burn out. Gee, I wonder why people got burnt out.

If you are just focused on rewards then that right there shows interest isn't that high. A game mode should be more than just rewards.

[{quoted}](name=SuckasGots 2Know,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=4EfXQZyW,comment-id=00010003,timestamp=2020-02-02T19:54:07.804+0000)

I loved it, i hate being a niche consumer sometimes :(

yea, that's how I feel since Riot has been clear about the mode.

Unfortunately, they are right in abort it, because there's no reason to keep it while other projects have higher interest by more players.

New alternative game modes doesn't show up since Nexus Blitz because Riot noticed there's more results in New Games, and not new features of the same game.

For Riot, League has already taken the many players as possible. Now what only matter to Riot with it is more Skin, Champs and gimmick with Summoner's Rift to keep players interested with the same game mode that surely satisfy the majority of players.

While people still only like Summoner's Rift over and over again, Nexus Blitz has no reason in come back to please a few niche players that already has uninstalled League and tried to forget it.

[{quoted}](name=Vlada Cut,realm=EUNE,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=4EfXQZyW,comment-id=00020000,timestamp=2020-02-02T14:26:48.733+0000)

That's how all projects are invested... Some succeeded and and officially released, some fail and are scrapped. As much as the boards wanted Nexus Blitz they released chart where people played the mode less and less. If they wanted to keep it, they should've invested more time in making it interesting, but that's that and the mode is gone.

Move on.

We played it less and less because we went back to Ranked or SR. If they would have left it running they would have also had the stats for when i would have started playing again, after trying to climb. They don't have those stats tho, do they? RekSai CoffeeCo is right, the information is biased.

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you got that right!

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In regards to Tft, not let’s not pretend that it released as a finished product. The map wasn’t great by any means. It was buggy as hell and was missing so much information about so many things that should have been there in the first place.

They gave Nexus Blitz two runs and it still wasn’t popular. There isn’t anything to say.

Would you play 5+ games a day for a whole month of a currently-unfinished map with limited events and rewards, no ranked ladder, and balance changes not being made yet, especially if you thought that the next time it came around it'd be a more completed package with new map, minigames/rewards, balance tuning to the experimental items/rewards/buffs, etc?

I can tell you this - I've got more than a handful of games in alpha on my Steam account or just plain downloaded, and i play exactly 0 of them. However, i do play multiple games frequently that came OUT of alpha.

Consider that TFT was basically an entirely new (and tbh i still find totally unpalatable) gamemode with all new assets, and NB was given a shitty Summoners Rift clone that looked like something from a Chinese mobile game, with jarringly flat textures all over and a visible black skybox behind spawn, the exact same camps we have in SR with the only change being more of them for the 2 jgs - nothing gameplay, nothing visual.

At least in TFT the AI monster waves do things.

They frankly just need to rerun it with balance tweaks like ARURF/ARAM were given, some tweaks to the mode's unique parts, and a fresh coat of paint - and not advertise it as a slapped together "alpha 2.0", guarantee it'll do fuckin splendid during this half of the year if they actually put a minuscule amount of effort at the very least.

[{quoted}](name=Lord Dusteon,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=4EfXQZyW,comment-id=00060000,timestamp=2020-02-02T21:21:26.410+0000)

That's how things normally work though. It's the same thing with Definitely not Dominion or such; just because they put time and effort into making something doesn't mean it will end up being something worth keeping.

Nexus Blitz with missions didn't even approach ARAM numbers, and as people finished the missions they just stopped playing it at all. There's no benefit to Riot in spending extra time on a failed project, so they cut it.

yes, but dominion was playable for 5 years while blitz was only 1 and a half months. They approximately started making prior to november 2017 when Pridestalker's blade was added to PBE. As a developer, I would be furious that the project I dedicated so much time for being deleted in so short of a time. Riot should have made the gamemode available for half a year just to be respectful alone.

The numbers they gave us were included all regions. Servers where players mainly used internet cafe's like Japan, South Korea, and China are definitely not spend as much time on that mode because they have to pay per hour. I can guarantee NA and EU had much higher numbers compared to other regions. They made a chart of all regions to fudge the look instead of a comparison by region

[{quoted}](name=Lord Dusteon,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=4EfXQZyW,comment-id=00060000,timestamp=2020-02-02T21:21:26.410+0000)

That's how things normally work though. It's the same thing with Definitely not Dominion or such; just because they put time and effort into making something doesn't mean it will end up being something worth keeping.

Nexus Blitz with missions didn't even approach ARAM numbers, and as people finished the missions they just stopped playing it at all. There's no benefit to Riot in spending extra time on a failed project, so they cut it.

Sorry but that is Riot excuse defending removing TT because Nexus Blitz had more playrate even tho TT had like 2-3 patches in all the years it was a game mode.

[{quoted}](name=Smashed Hash,realm=NA,application-id=yrc23zHg,discussion-id=4EfXQZyW,comment-id=00070000,timestamp=2020-02-03T07:36:31.980+0000)

I am unsure about most of those game modes, for I have only been playing 2 years. I wasn't a big fan of TT. I do however love Nexus Blitz with all of my heart.

Thanks.

Dominion: Riot's first alternate game mode. Received almost zero support, became a safe-haven for botters, and, despite release claims to the contrary, there was no effort to make a competitive ladder. Which, incidentally, the community went ahead and did for them. Competitive Dominion was played using custom games.

Twisted Treeline: Sounds like you were here to see how that one was treated.

Magma Chamber: Riot's third alternate game mode. It was supposed to be a 1v1 map. A beta version was shown during the second or third worlds tournament. It was then canceled for.... Reasons.

Event modes: Limited time alternate game modes intended for special events. Included the Star guardian side scroller, Dark Star Thresh's hook and fling, and so on. They eventually just stopped making them because they didn't generate enough interest.

Rotating Game mode: Was a collection of alternate game modes that were supposed to be on regular rotation every weekend. When they updated the client, they apparently didn't make it RGM compatible. And despite multiple assurances that they were working on getting it integrated, they eventually just dropped it entirely.