Inb4 ARAM is removed and put into RGM

DREADN0UGHT·Aug 17, 2016·42 votes·1,920 views

I received a survey on my email which is associated with my LoL account.

They asked me random questions at first concerning my age and what not. A nice little diversion for what they had stored on the next pages.

All about ARAM.

''Do you like ARAM'' ''Do you play ARAM'' ''Do I intend on playing ARAM more often'' ''How often do I currently play it''

I know where you are going with that shit, Rito. Be straightforward about it. Are you going to remove ARAM as a permanent game mode to increase SR player base? To reduce queue times? So you can point at it and shout ''Hue hue lok Dinermic Q wurks gaise!''

I see you coming. Just wait.

33 Comments

Harvey RabbitAug 17, 201617 votes

Well if they remove ARAM.... myself and many other players will probably stop playing this game. Most of their rotating modes aren't that fun, and even ones that were recently fun (e.g. Ascension) they have for some reason changed into chit.

grayamirAug 18, 20161 votes

+1 Would stop playing if they do.

Riot must be dragging themselves along at this point, with all the holes in their feet, but they just can't resist pulling the trigger.

TaikobouAug 17, 201611 votes

That would only increase the level of toxic players on SR. My bet is that they will remove Twisted Treeline.

AmberShockedAug 17, 20163 votes

if the remove twisted treeline ill be really up set as thats what i mostly play as the players are was less toxic in solo and 3's ranked

EbonyBladeJ88Aug 18, 20165 votes

ARAM has become an official mode of LOL's gameplay. I don't know if there is any ranked form of it, but Riot has embraced it and made it official. They wouldn't remove it unless it had a severe drop in games played or another way of it dropping in popularity. The reason (As far as I know) that Dominion got the axe was because it was hardly being played.

9001TeemosAug 18, 20165 votes

But... but there's already Poro King... that's just aram with a big fluffer instead of lots of tiny ones...

Dr PoroAug 18, 20162 votes

And without the A R part. ARAM >>>> Poro King because of that. If Poro King was all random, it would be way better than ARAM though.

KinjishiAug 18, 20161 votes

Poro King is very meh, never liked it much at all.

ModCaptainMårvelousAug 18, 20165 votes

ARAM's playerbase is huge though. There's no way they'd make it a RGM. Dominion? Dominion was tiny. TT? TT also has a miniscule population comparative to SR. But ARAM? ARAM is enormous.

XonraAug 18, 20164 votes

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ARAM's playerbase is huge though. There's no way they'd make it a RGM. Dominion? Dominion was tiny. TT? TT also has a miniscule population comparative to SR. But ARAM? ARAM is enormous.

I can speak for just me saying I stopped playing TT because since they removed Dominion (especially since) the bots have just migrated to there. I don't have enough people to play ranked 3s (not that you can all the time now, which is another reason I stopped).

They don't give it much attention, like they admitted they didn't with Dominion, then wonder why it isn't played much O_o

ModCaptainMårvelousAug 18, 20166 votes

Well, to be fair, Dominion even beforehand wasn't played as much. The drop off when it -released- was immense. Hell, this isn't unique to league either. SMITE had a Dominion-style capture point mode. It was discontinued due to lack of players as well. People just don't seem to like this mode.

TT is getting balance fixes and, to be fair, Riot has outright said "We're not sure if we'll keep ranked 3's around. That said, if you wanna save it, you should play it." ARAM, by comparison, boasts a playerbase as large or even larger than normals. Queue times are immensely shorter, which also shows just how many people play the mode. Riot would be extremely foolish to remove ARAM. It's not like dominion: People actually play it.

XonraAug 18, 20161 votes

You aren't wrong, but they drastiaclly stopped giving it any love, they only balanced it a few patches, went back on their talks about ranked Dominion, and eventually even the hardcore players of the mode just gave up on it.

I won't pretend I was one of those guys, because I never personally liked the mode, but it is hard to get invested in something the company themselves give no attention to, and even less so as time goes on. TT has gotten more attention, and I think that is partially due to them not wanting it to end up like Dominion, after they admitted that was partially their fault for not keeping up with it.

You are correct about the ARAM thing, and I personally don't think they would remove it, but I do get nervous about them and their polls and surveys lately, seeing how badly it went with Dynamic Queue, as they read the data they want to read.

Legacy HydralphaAug 18, 20164 votes

Inb4 Riot's Ask Riot page has a section about how "People aren't playing ARAM enough and we might make it a RGM" and then sabotage it.

XonraAug 18, 20164 votes

I know people say stuff like "if they remove TT, I will literally quit this game"...but if Riot removed ARAM as a permanent game mode, I think I actually WOULD....LITERALLY quit this game.

While I don't play it every single day, it is the best thing when you want to play, but don't want to deal with Metas, roles, or Ranked. It is a great anti-tilt mode for when you lose a few games in ranked and want to chill. It is also great if you want to "warm up" instead of just diving into a ranked game.

Will likely keep watching LCS and so on, cause I do like the game, but if ARAM goes away into just the "you'll see this mode once every two months" queue (seriously, half the time it is poro king, or all for one, and I could care less about ever seeing poro king again), I won't bother logging in.

Jhin UItd JFKAug 17, 20163 votes

or maybe they're actively working on changing the gamemode because, if you didn't assume and use your brain, you'd see that they changed a lot of the features several patches ago.

DREADN0UGHTAug 17, 20166 votes

Ok and since when does Riot give a shit about player opinion? Use your brain, asshole. They don't. It wasn't a survey, it was a poll to see how many players were into the mode.

Fun fact for you, they swapped and balanced items for Dominion too back when it was still a thing, and now its gone.

MicbranAug 17, 20161 votes

Or they're trying to gauge how popular it is to know if it's worth doing another major update???? The whole world isn't out to get you.

XonraAug 18, 20162 votes

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Or they're trying to gauge how popular it is to know if it's worth doing another major update???? The whole world isn't out to get you.

You must be new around here. That or you are talking about a different Riot games from the one I've known since 2010 that is nothing like that.

Jhin UItd JFKAug 17, 20162 votes

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Ok and since when does Riot give a shit about player opinion?

oh I forgot you're just another one of those typical pessimist board goers who probably has a huge bag of doritos sitting right next to them xd

Guy Fox TeemoAug 18, 20163 votes

I very very very much doubt they would remove aram. Its incredibly popular. Most people have a few hundred games on it, compared to dominon which most people only ever played like 3 times.

balbraakselAug 18, 20162 votes

I have 3,2k ARAM matches played so far xD

Synnx7Aug 18, 20163 votes

ARAM / dominion was the only reason that kept me playing this crap. Hell no im gonna play that SR farmville for 20minutes before the match even starts , same map, etc

iamthegoatofwarAug 18, 20163 votes

That's fine they'll shoot themselves in the foot just as battlefield 1 comes out.

MorbazanAug 18, 20162 votes

I've played since 2009, played ARAM since it started in customs, and i stopped playing Rift almost entirely when HA was released. If they take my ARAM I'm definitely calling it quits..

AsudurgaAug 18, 20162 votes

I made the same point using Dominion as an example, and yet I got shat on and downvoted for it.

Well who's laughing now? I WAS RIGHT! Riot is planning to get rid of ARAM eventually!

balbraakselAug 18, 20162 votes

I really strongly doubt they'd do that with ARAM, it's played quite a lot. It's more likely they're trying to get statistics on ARAM accounts vs accounts that own all champions to find out whether that has a negative impact on the fun on ARAM or not.

VasilisGreenAug 18, 20162 votes

Lmao, i have lower Q times on Aram than normal blind. Aram is not remotely underplayed to not be a permanent mode

BobaFlautistAug 17, 20161 votes

Man, all I want is for them to bring back Doom Bots. That shit was so fun.

DREADN0UGHTAug 17, 20163 votes

Yeah Doombots was a fun mode for sure.

The reason its not in RGM is about programming.

A Ritoer said it was a nightmare to code.

XonraAug 18, 20161 votes

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Man, all I want is for them to bring back Doom Bots. That shit was so fun.

Not until another 33 rounds of Poro king and all for one

bony whimsarkAug 18, 20161 votes

already happened its called poro king

DEKInwAug 18, 20161 votes

ive said it before and ill say it again 5v5 summoners rift = League of legends Aram = booby streamer simulator Twisted treeline = i only have 2 friends