ARURF Weekend Begins

Riot·May 26, 2018·9 votes·175,138 views

Hey all,

Obviously Clash's opening weekend was a bust. This is in no way a one-for-one replacement, but we’re turning on ARURF globally until the end of Sunday.

We realise this isn’t the same sort of competitive experience that you were expecting this weekend, but we wanted to offer something in the interim that we could quickly hotfix up to a playable standard while we work out our next steps for the players affected by Clash's cancellation. As ARURF is one of our most requested modes, we hope this will bring some respite to an otherwise rough weekend.

To be clear, working out what caused Clash to fail and how we're going to fix it is our main priority. We're not done with the discussion yet, and we're weighing options on next steps for affected players.

Heads up: There are likely gonna be bugs and some weird interactions as we haven’t had a huge amount of time to test on this patch, so we might be disabling some runes and champs pretty early on.

We’ll have more information regarding the next steps for Clash in the coming days.

323 Comments

KawaiiDesuuuNeMay 26, 201895 votes

If we get ARURF as a bandaid instead of regular URF, can you PLEASE at least enable trading...?

KawaiiDesuuuNeMay 26, 201865 votes

It's depressing to see someone get something I want and they reroll it because no trading, or playing with friends and we can't trade each other when we get each other's mains. Come on. This is really just insult to injury. [sg-janna]

RiotRiot NaKyleMay 26, 201838 votes

This is the kind of stuff that crops up when we just turn on game modes. This bug is likely to stick around for the weekend. We just wanted to do what we could, as fast as we could.

StexeMay 26, 201833 votes

Is there a reason why it was ARURF instead of just normal URF?

ĘbbAndƒloweyMay 26, 201826 votes

I know a lot of people hate Riot's reasoning for not bringing back URF, but I'm going to add one more thing:

URF is just imbalanced af.

You have so many champions that just do WAY better at spamming their abilities: Ahri Bard Ezreal old Evelynn Hecarim Pantheon Sona Ryze Veigar being a few examples. This just isn't fun to deal with, and there isn't really a fair way to deal with them since it defeats the purpose of the game mode to ban "op" champions that are op because the game mode is meant to make everyone op. So you would see the few bans from the original mode (Kassadin, Sona and Ryze) and everything else was fair game so you'd literally see mirror matches of Hecarim/Eve/Fizz/2 Others. ie: Every game was basically the same.

Not that I like ARURF... Though I definitely like it more than regular URF because you see more interesting things getting played/actually succeeding. You also see way more... Not succeeding (Elise/Darius/etc) which is a problem with all random. But ARAM has these problems too, which is normally fixed with trades/rerolls. All in all, URF isn't as healthy overall, and there is no elegant solution besides ARURF.

SquishinatorMay 26, 201831 votes

URF IS SUPPOSED TO BE BROKEN, thats what made it so fun back in the first urf.

MagicFlyingLlamaMay 26, 201813 votes

Regular URF is years outdated, this was what riot could duct-tape together in under 24 hours.

mlgmage935May 27, 201813 votes

But if we had old urf plus the 10 ban system it would be way better

CookiesNCrem321May 26, 201811 votes

Or bring back regular URF now that we have 4 more bans... OR MAKE IT SO THAT THERES AN OPTION BETWEEN THE TWO SO PEOPLE COULD PICK WHAT THEY WANT, just like Star Guardians with regular and onslaught.

Lawd DawgMay 26, 201866 votes

Yay I get to vent my frustration playing as my favorite champ on my favorite mode- wait what? ARURF?!?! Darn...

JwattsMay 26, 201858 votes

Bring back URF for the love of god

StexeMay 26, 201857 votes

Why ARURF instead of just normal URF? Isn't URF more requested?

Immex5May 27, 201811 votes

no one, NO ONE likes ARURF. They wont do normal URF Because they get a drop in players after they remove it.

CookiesNCrem321May 27, 20187 votes

I've always trying to rant on about this but apparently only a few see it though, why not bring BOTH and leave a choice like with star guardians. though this company rarely listens to their community unlike some other games :^

JwattsMay 26, 201854 votes

ARURF is trash riot

AeôsMay 26, 201834 votes

"As ARURF is one of our most requested modes" We clearly requested for regular old URF, not this retarded version of it.

KïchuneMay 26, 201833 votes

Not even normal urf?

SparklingLocustMay 26, 201832 votes

"Hey guys, we know you wanted to hang out so badly with your friend Tom, but he couldn't make it so we have a different surprise to make you feel better. Remember your old best friend friend Jim? Well his retarded cousin is visiting all weekend! Have fun you two."

LadyUnluckyMay 26, 201828 votes

Is trading busted???[zombie-nunu-tears]

I Freebird IMay 26, 201827 votes

A big thing that bothered me about clash was that I would never be able to play it, I ALWAYS work weekends, and I'm ALWAYS at work @ 5. I sleep at @ 8 AM. So while I was really excited first about it, it wouldn't have worked. There should be a midnight clash as well for us night owls because it really made us feel like you don't care about a significant chunk of your player-base.

Thank you for reading.

VauntedDreamMay 26, 20189 votes

Also, maybe they could set an earlier time too? Maybe an early shift of games, an evening group, and a midnight group in order to truly accommodate everyone.

clinmanyaMay 26, 201825 votes

BRING BACK NORMAL URF! WE CAN DEAL WITH THE BALANCE WE DONT CARE. WE JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN.

FoeSheezyMay 26, 201825 votes

A-Urf is a joke. GIVE US WHAT WE WANT... REGULAR OLD URF MODE...I mean geezs guys you eff up an entire weekend for everyone then yopu half ass the response...wth

575May 26, 20188 votes

Are you surprised? It's Riot.

BaboToneyMay 26, 201824 votes

Yes! Please have featured modes more often! Please please please!

Vhan8765May 26, 201822 votes

I don't really care what mode it is or why the reason were getting it is, I'm just happy to actually see a Featured Game Mode. We haven't had one in what feels like, Too Damn Long!

SR has so many expectations the moment you queue up a match and ARAM is super limited on what champions you actually get to play due to the whole "random" element. Oh wait... :^)

Frosty IcebearMay 26, 201821 votes

when urf is fucked up and not the same anymore

CHEEKCLAPPER420May 26, 201820 votes

“Urf makes people stop playing league” ok riot we’re not falling for it, whenever urf came back all my friends would get on league (including the ones who quit long ago) so grow a pair and let us have fun and pick our champs. And so what if people stop playing league, that just means you need to make the game better.

MooseNoisesForBMay 26, 201819 votes

why can't we fucking trade, you guys can't do shit right

ThotimusMay 26, 201819 votes

You know what, I'll take it. With how rare URF is in general, I'll take anything I can get as long as it isn't that disgusting "Winter skins only" themed one.[zombie-brand-facepalm]

TeddyMuffinMay 26, 201818 votes

You guys should make it till the end of Monday since we have Memorial Day in NA at least

BellaStarMay 26, 201818 votes

does not bother me at all that clash was canceled.. i dont have a 5 man premade team..so i couldnt be a part of it anyways..and i felt left out. On another note..I do miss the weekend game modes. please bring those back. and work on some new ones! :) :) The star guardian one you guys came up with last year was pretty cool... :) also a fan of the project one. <3 [sg-ahri-2]

YuGiHoMay 26, 201817 votes

So they can just flip a switch and give us game modes???? so why haven't we been getting any???

veigarbage canMay 26, 201810 votes

Due to a lot of gamemodes requiring tweaking in some way, shape or form with every patch. Be it visual, auditory, or gameplay-wise.

YuGiHoMay 26, 20189 votes

but they didnt tweak anything this time. clash failed so they just threw arurf at us instead with 0 of this pre patch prep that you say they have to do. Whats the truth?

KervvyMay 26, 201811 votes

And that's why there are a ton of bugs, like for example you can't trade when we usually can in ARURF

veigarbage canMay 26, 201813 votes

{quoted}

but they didnt tweak anything this time. clash failed so they just threw arurf at us instead with 0 of this pre patch prep that you say they have to do. Whats the truth?

They didn't on our side, but they did say:

"Heads up: There are likely gonna be bugs and some weird interactions as** we haven’t had a huge amount of time to test on this patch**, so we might be disabling some runes and champs pretty early on."

"We realise this isn’t the same sort of competitive experience that you were expecting this weekend, but we wanted to offer something in the interim that we could quickly hotfix up to a playable standard while we work out our next steps for the players affected by Clash's cancellation."

ĘbbAndƒloweyMay 26, 20184 votes

They said they stopped doing RGM cause there wasn't as much appeal in it compared to when they put it up for events. Even if they put up "popular" game modes, there was a noticeable difference in how many people were playing it.

F0R THE H0RDEMay 26, 20186 votes

They stopped RGMs because of how hard it was on their balance team to consistently be balancing the rotating modes every single patch. They said it in a post.

KempthePimpMay 26, 201812 votes

i'm already bored of this mode after 4-5 games.

RodoriMay 26, 201812 votes

Honestly, after reading the whole Riot post regarding the cancellation of Clash, I feel a little insulted. It seems that Riot is apologetic in the post but refused to say anything in the realms of "sorry," "we apologize," "we fully understand how much effort was put into making your clash teams and set the time and we are sorry to inform you in such a short time frame", etc. For some of us, even if its a few, it's incredibly difficult to gather our group of friends who all have work and responsibilities beyond the game. We love the game. Although we don't get to play as much as we would like, we always try to find the time to play with each other. We were all hyped up to play together as a team in clash. We all worked together to schedule time apart to play Clash (no, we didn't change our schedules not to go work during Clash but rather changed it to work on other days instead of the weekend when Clash would take place). At least say you are sorry. This post shows that you're sorry but freaking say it. Everyone who was going to participate in Clash practiced and played more league games just to play Clash. We didn't care if we didn't win. We just really enjoyed the idea of facing other group of people who actually play the game as it was intended. The game is meant to be competitive. That's what drives this game. It's not always the most fun game. League is fun at times, but the game has changed to a competitive game. For the most part, I enjoy that idea. As you grow older, you realize that "fun" is not enough. Competitiveness keeps people coming back to league. Why would I waste my time and effort on Fornite, PUBG, OW, or other games if my time and effort won't be appreciated it? That's just me. League is the perfect game for competitiveness. You feel like shit when you lose, why? Because you actually care about winning. You lose in other games and you could care less. League is different. If you're good, you could give no shits about your life.

Yugo FateMay 26, 201810 votes

sweet thanks riot! cant wait to get into champ select and lock in something fun!

BilksterMay 26, 201810 votes

I personally enjoy ARURF, but understand why people dislike it. Anyone else share my views?

SkarekrowwMay 26, 201817 votes

i personally hate ARURF, i understand why some people like it but it's just the fact there's 140+ champs and i can't get one of the like 10 i actually enjoy playing. idk about you or anyone else, but when you don't get a champ you enjoy it's not a fun game. Kind of like how when your main gets nerfed and then your role gets nerfed so you start doing arams just so you can get SOME enjoyment out of the game.

[zombie-nunu-bummed]

ázaMay 26, 20187 votes

Talk about compensation lul.

WOLFJOBMay 26, 20186 votes

40 hours of work earns me 1 hour of personal time off and some people used up 72 hours of their PTO. some people just used up 2880 work hours to play clash this weekend. Never tried ARURF tho, hope it's fun.

EagleEye007May 26, 20184 votes

What kind of terrible job are you working that 3 days off requires you to work for over a year and a half? Like, McDonald's employees get more time of than that I think, and their lives are about as poor as it gets.

F0R THE H0RDEMay 26, 20185 votes

EagleEye007 I am currently working for McDonald's full-time while I go through school and yes, I can book time off just about anytime I would like and they usually have no problem with it.