@ Riot - Please bring back Winter/Autumn SR maps!

Hello, LoL playerbase. And hello Morello, IronStylus and/or anyone else at Riot who might be reading this.

As some of the older players will remember long long time ago when Riot was still a small starting company and LoL was still relatively new game one Xmas we got a snowy Xmas-themed Summoner Rift map! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E3Ra_i3SDg

It was a joyous occasion and everyone was happy. Later the presents and decorations were removed and the map was adapted to regular Winter-map skin for Summoner Rift (so the map skin would alternate at random between Regular (green) and Winter)

Then Halloween came and we got a Harrowing themed map. Which was cool and spooky. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EIdNiug82k And everyone was very happy again! Later this map skin was stripped of pumpkins and seasonal decorations, adapted to an Autumn map skin and put on random rotation in your games as well!

Oh, those were the days. It was amazing. So we had 3 (actually 5) skins for Summoner Rift - Original, Xmas (+Winter) and Harrowing (+Autumn). I'll just repeat that all of this was done when Riot was a starting company and was (compared to today) understaffed. :) And then something horrible happened. :(

Riot decided to "graphically update" Summoner Rift. (to be perfectly honest, that "update" was extremely underwhelming. Considering what could have been done, it was quite conservative. But I'll let you be the judge of that 'cos it's not really that important) http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/1976/clipboard01bq.jpg

But... (and here comes the sad part) they also decided that they can't be bothered updating Winter & Autumn maps to this new "high" standard. And it's been like that ever since. For the last couple of years we're been playing on the default map skin over and over and over...

What I don’t understand is that random players all over the world can apparently find the time to make these kind of custom map skins with all new textures (all alone!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYfYyStoymc but Riot feels it would be a waste of resources... and that those same resources are better used on a new skin I guess (cos we're getting like 4 champs a year now)

Here’s why it should be a priority for your art team:

1. Player Numbers - everyone will get to experience it, not just select few!

2. It counters monotony - It makes playing the same map visually less boring after your 400th game. Sure, it’s till the same game, but it does bring visual diversity and surprisingly freshens up the whole experience a whole lot. (even the fact it was random so you never knew what map skin you'd get was great and contributed to the experience) All that equals to people playing more.

3. Show us your holiday spirit - Because aside 3-4 themed skins, you haven’t created any seasonal content (One for All and Snowdown modes are exactly that "modes". Same map with a few rules/lines of code changed)

You're a huge company now with a game being played by millions. It's been years since you "updated" SR. You made a billion skins in the meantime. It's time for Summoners Rift now. Just in advance - saying stuff like "We're aware and we'd like to do it one day, but it's a matter of resources" is not really an acceptable answer. :)

Thank you, readers, for your time and please upvote or bump if you agree. Also thank you, Riot, in advance for your reply.

**TL;DR **- It's not.