One For All is back with a twist!

I'd love that.

I think it's because then Riot would have to constantly put work into keeping the weird modes free of bugs as they add more patches and champions. A spell that works fine when there's only one on each team could cause problems when you've got ten of them, or when you're casting it every second.

If they added all the game modes. They would have to extended team builders wait time from 60 minutes to 120 minutes.

 They don't want to break their game model. As of right now, Riot makes the most money through the normal/ranked model. The system has a casual and a competitive queue that culminates into the championship tournament (LCS). The idea here is to funnel all of the players into a competitive outlet (ranked queue). Even if you're not the best, it's still a great environment for self-improvement. This is the model that Riot follows. Yeah skins is how they make money, but the interest in the game comes from this ranked-queue model.



 The reason why they incorporate new game modes is to increase interest in the game. ("Oh man, did you try URF out?" "No I haven't played in a month." "Let's grab all our friends and go play it! It's a lot of fun!" "Okay!") Once they've brought players back and generated interest in these fancy modes, they shut them off to hopefully funnel the returning players into the competitive queue. ("URF was a lot of fun. Oh man I forgot how great League is, let's go play ranked!") The goal is to funnel players back into the competitive model. If they leave the fun-game modes around for too long, it will drain the population away from the competitive queue and into other queues.



 You may think it's stupid or even less successful for them to do that, and you may think that they can generate even more interest and popularity in the game by keeping these game modes. That may be 100% true, but then it breaks their model. It makes people leave the competitive scene in order to enjoy the game on a more casual level, and this would be detrimental for the *future* of LoL. **It's not their vision to cater to the casuals right now.** Riot wants everybody in the competitive queue because then it builds up interest in LCS. They aren't going for the money (they make tons already. They don't need to make more) although this decision would naturally create a larger income. They are going for the fame and title of being the #1 most competitive *video* game in the world, and eventually they want e-sports to be as popular as regular sports.

 And honestly, it's a very innovative and beautiful dream that we all should recognize if we want to see improvements in the video-game industry over the next few decades.

Tl;dr - Riot wants the competitive venue (LCS, tournaments, pro e-sports) to be more popular than the casual venue (fun game modes, etc). This decision is not fueled by money, but instead by fame (which naturally generates money). This is because it is the only way for the video-game industry to advance.

Edit: Thank you for the reply Phreak, it means a lot to me. I also didn't mean to start such controversy, it was just my observation of Riot's business practice.

Btw, I'm not saying everything Riot does is intentionally for competitive play. The introduction of these new game modes is for the casual crowd, but the removal of modes is for the competitive scene. And by competitive, I don't mean for LCS professionals only, but instead for the greater, overall larger picture and future focus of LoL.

I agree that Riot isn't tunnel-vision-focused on the competitive scene. It would be foolish to build up only one aspect of LoL when there's so much potential in other parts of LoL. However, that does not change what removal of the new game modes does to the community. Even if it's not Riot's focus or priority, the presence of varying queues is antagonistic to the competitive scene and therefore cannot stay forever.

Whoa, don't get too crazy, son.

Most people's responses: "What's dominion?" My response: "Oh, you mean that place where I play hide and seek?"

he ragequit after someone else locked in his role.

The unseen is the dealiest...

we should let the clones fight each other and the real ones shout CLONE WARS