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Clash NA launch canceled due to technical issues

Riot··9 votes·45,371 views

We are sorry to tell you that we’ve decided to cancel this weekend’s Clash launch due to unexpected technical issues that appeared when rolling it out across regions earlier today. We want your first play through of Clash to be as amazing as possible, but unfortunately we are not confident in the event experience that you and your teams would have had.

We know that you have made an incredible commitment clearing your schedules and practicing with teammates to prepare for Clash, and our team is focused on finding a solution to get Clash back on track. This work will continue and there will likely be Clash tests in certain regions around the world as we explore fixes, but this Clash weekend is officially canceled here in North America. We will continue to keep you updated.

To those of you wondering, your Clash ticket will still be in your inventory and can be used when Clash is available in the future.

1,172 Comments

Snow Mew543 votes

The only thing I was looking forward to before being deployed next week. Thanks allot eh.

ArcaneShift Tilt226 votes

Last thing i was gonna get to do with my husband before he left...

9IX640 votes

They apologized already. I don't understand why people enjoy spamming the thread.

The Blender189 votes

Becuase a company of this size should be able to come out with a mode that works when they had been planning this for weeks

Haedrig58 votes

months*

BalancedChampBtw44 votes

more like almost half a year now

MilkCows204 votes

Legit canceled my weekend plans

steven454746641 votes

same

moran6428 votes

Do you know how hard it is to get 5 adults to get their schedules synced up to actually play for every night? And now all the effort to cancel/reschedule life/work is for nothing....

Neavu129 votes

For real. I've been turning down real life stuff all month for Clash. This blows.

Relise309 votes

This absolutely ridiculous riot. You cannot launch this and hype it up for weeks having people change all their schedules around to match this time. I expected better from you guys. We all expected some bugs and jitters as this is the first non beta weekend so what is wrong with releasing something that has some problems we all want to play and set aside the time to play it.

Just please don't announce something for a set date then not release it.

MilkCows121 votes

Honestly this is sad from such a big company they had so long to work this out and then they cancel 2 hours before release?

Alice Morgan275 votes

fuck you, cleared my weekend for this shit

OnlyCheeseBreads33 votes

It's not their fault, they had no way of knowing there was going to be an issue.

Alice Morgan151 votes

it is, they are a multi million dollar company and knew that they were hyping this game mode up. the traffic should be expected and the bugs should be ironed out. dont advertise a three day event then cancel the night of. unprofessional.

RHO DRUMMER52 votes

You are correct kind sir. They knew a few days ago there was an issue.

KriIIin213 votes

My friends and I cleared our schedules for this. We're adults, not kids off from school. It takes a lot to have an open weekend. This sucks.

TobiTheDruid170 votes

Completely absurd. You hype up your entire player base FOR MONTHS, blue ball some of us with the beta, and then when the final result is about yo come out you cancel THE DAY OF? Riot, you need to focus less on your PR and more on being a good company for your players. If Riot ever wants to know why their game is dying, look no further than this repeated bull crap. Riot repeatedly screws over its players with false promises and refuses to work with them. Riot owns League, but if they want to keep it alive they should actually work on having a functional product.

GrandMasterHobo162 votes

Christmas is CANCELLED! [sg-janna]

Meekout140 votes

#smallindiecompany

rogers good 120 votes

dont even think about putting clash during exams weekend

Metrios99 votes

Release it as is, no one gave a fuck about the issues with the beta launch, no one will give a fuck about issues with this one. Way too many people rearranged their lives to fit riots schedule for this and the backlash from cancelling will be larger that any 'technical issues' that made it through.

The Deckowner17 votes

Looking at the OCE situation, apparently they fucked it up and made it worse than Beta. The game literally "kills" itself and randomly gives everyone losses without it even being played. Don't understand how they have never caught such a game-breaking bug while testing the system.

TeddyMuffin97 votes

Give us regular URF as a compensation :) EDIT: Riot has noticed and put in ARURF :(

A CONFUSED KID89 votes

Feel like Riot could at least gift everyone 1 clash ticket. Players should be compensated for this across all regions... It's one thing to cancel a launch but it's another thing when it's cancelled hours before. Especially a big time commitment that people were looking towards. Rude move just to say "Sorry, :(" a few hours before clash was gonna start.

astroyear88 votes

Lol spend the entire week organizing a team and looking forward for this and riot can't sort their shit out

ZombieKiler 79 votes

We know that you have made an incredible commitment clearing your schedules and practicing with teammates to prepare for Clash

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macgyver9978 votes

Second mistake Riot made was allowing comments on this page...

blankupai71 votes

small indie company btw

EuphTone70 votes

billion dollar company

Lapushka67 votes

i asked for these days off to relax and play some clash with my team mates. we all focused on getting today and the weekend off and you cancel it? OFF WITH YOUR HEADS [darius-angry]

IOnlyPlayJanna66 votes

"Technical issues"? We don't even get an actual explanation? smh

MilkCows64 votes

Literally cleared my schedule so I would be able to do this weekend with buddies, like really?

cowardly oni55 votes

I would care less if there was a rotating game mode every week.

R3NZLER54 votes

lol riot you're trash. people prepared for this. why spend money on skins etc if you cant use the money to make a working product

Classic WoW48 votes

Hey thanks for canceling clash the day of the event after I took off of work for it! Well, guess Im gonna go play Fortnite, one more reason not to play this game!

TitheLegend48 votes

[galio-happy] GIFT US THE SKINS RIOT FOR THE MESS UP!

mightydragon9247 votes

I would rather play the bugged clash game mode instead of doing nothing

fridan45 votes

WP riot, losing player for this **** , I planned my weekend just for that. I wish u will reward us so we can forgive that.

JaceWind44 votes

Really obnoxious. Had all my friends clear their schedules. Great job.

Shmeepy41 votes

Really glad that my friends (2 of them married with kids) and I all cancelled/reshuffled our memorial day weekend plans to accommodate this. Pretty sure that we just flat out won't be able to schedule clash into our lives for the rest of the summer.

This company has way too many resources, manpower, and lead time for testing for this to be excusable.

Skillfulhitman40 votes

They better give us something in light of this. So many people moved their lives around for this weekend and they gave us a 2 hour heads up. Take a page out of epic games(fortnight) and give your players a "I'm sorry gift" This is 100% on you guys.

Fluffy Ham35 votes

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

L0nely C0mpany 30 votes

i called off of work and my team planned this all week and now its canceled this is so dumb. isnt the beta supposed to prevent this????? my team cleared schedules for this like why?

oREDz29 votes

I cancelled everything for today saturday and sunday. thanks riot now im broke and bored this week.

DeathSmith18728 votes

Wow what a surprise that riot fucks another thing up lmfao

Lazerbite28 votes

What a joke. Wheres our compensation?

FLCC02duMt26 votes

Give us something better than a fucking 4 win xp boost for this shit, this is real life shit we all canceled, and to be fucked over like this means compensation has to be near even.

Strpwner1225 votes

Tell us what the fucking issue is if you're gonna cancel it only for us. Like this is actually awful. If it was because of in-game things then fine but if the clash worked in client and we could get into games just release the beta shit again and let us play.

Legne25 votes

Pft, "first play through". Y'all already launched the beta last month or so.

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