Why does Riot rotate the fun game modes instead of keeping them all?

Mdluli·Sep 24, 2016·3 votes·832 views

I don't understand why Riot rotates the fun game modes and why they don't allow us to play them at all sometimes.

Why doesn't Riot just keep them all active so we can play them anytime as well as have a choice of what game mode we feel like playing?

I heard people say that some people ruin URF by making it less about fun and more about winning so Riot takes it away to keep it fresh and just about fun. Some say it's so that we don't get board with the game modes. If bugs or balance is the issue, then why not just update it with new patches like normal?

In my opinion, Riot should just keep them up and leave the decision on when and how we play them up to us. I mean, DotA (1 and 2) has allowed that to happen for years and the world hasn't ended! So what's Riot's reason behind not letting us play freely?

7 Comments

OurLestradeSep 24, 20163 votes

There'd be so many queues going on at once that a lot would be abandoned. I may've loved Dominion, but that alone was abandoned.

MdluliSep 24, 20162 votes

Not so sure why there would be more abandonment. Explain?

venomous frostSep 24, 20162 votes

Some game modes are always going to be more popular than others.

For example 99% might dislike nexus siege, while having a 1% loyal following to the game mode. But there won't be enough players online at every time to make a full game. The result will be 1 game mode being played (urf?) while the others are abandonned.

Thus only people that play urf get to play their game mode, if they switch the mup, everybody gets to play the different game modes because people will be forced to pick between a normal 5v5 or this game mode.

This happened with dominion, there simply weren't enough players dedicated to this game mode, sometimes queue times would be 2+ hours without a game.

MdluliSep 24, 20161 votes

Shouldn't Riot then come up with another game that is as good as URF? And if the vast majority of us like URF then isn't it worse to only let us play it 4 times a year?

I mean, we can't make everyone happy. Some game modes just can't survive and that's OK because that should push Riot to do better next time, you know what I mean?

venomous frostSep 24, 20162 votes

Coming with another game just means it has to compete with URf, if its better for the majority, URF might get abandonned.

For the rest, it's riot's decision. I would let you play URF all year long if it was up to me.

venomous frostSep 24, 20163 votes

By making some features limited in time, they can make sure all players queue up at once and thus faster queue times.

kinda like the set times for ranked 5s

MdluliSep 24, 20161 votes

Fair enough. But many of us are willing to wait longer Q times to play the mode we want when we feel like it.