@Riot - Rotating game modes

Cerbearus·Apr 30, 2014·1 votes·507 views

So the idea of rotating game modes is to always have some sort of special mode to play besides the normal queues, and to have them change fairly regularly. If I understand correctly, you described One for All, Showdown, Hexakill, etc as part of your "rotation of game modes". I just find it strange that you keep them up for two weeks, then we have nothing for a month until the next comes out.

Is there a specific reason you do this besides trying to starve the community of fun? I can understand if you do this because of technical limitations, but taking one down early just to increase anticipation for the next seems cruel to me.

4 Comments

CerbearusApr 30, 20141 votes

Smite has had this feature since early beta (game modes rotate every day). I don't see why a huge game like LoL can't do this.

Red Strike0Apr 30, 20141 votes

Honestly, if the I think 4 that they do have did rotate every two weeks I wouldn't be playing them anymore at this point, once they get a larger number of game modes like that out then I could see it being a consistent thing but at this point I see no need to have them always available.

Sir ArmaMalumApr 30, 20141 votes

Community Fracturing for smaller regions is a big reason. 3v3 and dominion are flat out disabled in Latin America regions last I heard, so introducing game modes as a constant additional option will screw with a lot of people elsewhere. It can be done in NA and Europe quite easily from what I understand, but Riot can't play favorites in those cases.

Hyrum GraffMay 1, 20141 votes

I think the OP was asking why featured game modes aren't available for longer, not why they are only available temporarily. Like, why not have each game mode available for a month, and then immediately put a new game mode up.

My answer is:

It gives time for excitement to build over the new featured game modes.
It gives riot more time to make the game mode more awesome.
It keeps the game mode from getting old and boring. Let's face it: featured game modes are fun because they're gimmicky. It they were around all the time, we'd get used to them and they wouldn't be as fun. Riot has stated that they're probably going to bring back some of the modes we've seen in the past, and they want to keep players excited for that.