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Bukkake at Baron·7/11/2018, 11:01:11 AM·4 votes·3,734 views

What would it take for Riot games to make a separate League of Legends server that will be exactly like it was in season 3 or 4? The perfect example is RuneScape. They pretty much revived their game by making OSRS. As someone who has been playing this game since season 1, i can tell you that the last genuinely fun and enjoyable season was season 4. Every that came after that has been a slow descend into hell and im pretty sure everyone that has been playing this game for as long as me will agree with that. I dont wanna go on about why i think the game was better back then, but im a 100% sure that making a server like that would bring back a lot of players that quit because the game became bad to them and i think that if Riot goes through with the new ranked system changes in season 9 ill quit as well. The constant reworks and changes are already bad enough.

Now im sure Riot has stored the things they would need to make a seperate season 3-4 server and that its only a matter of maintaining that server and seeing if its "profitable" and worthwhile to upkeep. So i believe it shouldnt be THAT big of a problem to make, but i think its gonna bring back a lot of players.

Can we discuss this? I think its doable. What would be the pros and cons? Would Riot be willing to consider this if a petition was made? Would you guys make a petition for this and see the response from the players?

4 Comments

SugeMinPikk7/11/2018, 1:01:26 PM2 votes

See, I can understand vanilla WoW servers, but.. legacy League servers? Why? I can't see a point. This is coming from someone who had to give up their 3-year main on patch 7.3..

ModThe Djinn7/11/2018, 12:59:19 PM1 votes

As someone who has been playing this game since season 1, i can tell you that the last genuinely fun and enjoyable season was season 4. Every that came after that has been a slow descend into hell and im pretty sure everyone that has been playing this game for as long as me will agree with that.

I've been playing since Pre-Season 1, and I can honestly say that right now is the most fun I've had with League since I started. It feels like a time when the meta is a bit unhinged again, and people can experiment with a gamestate that isn't solved. So, speaking for myself as a player and as an armchair game designer, I think it's definitely not been descending into hell, despite a few rough patches here and there.

The other problem with this is that this would split the playerbase, and part of how League does matchmaking is based on the number of players in the game. It's why some less popular regions have certain queues accessible only at certain times (or not at all) -- too few players in any one mode makes the experience worse, so there's a chance that implementing this would actually reduce the quality of match-making on all servers.

Kairoptra7/11/2018, 7:07:03 PM1 votes

From Riot’s mouth:

We looked at doing this recently for a series of internal playtests, because we wanted to experience first-hand whether things like pacing or counterplay felt very different a few years ago. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to easily get the older builds running because so much of the game content and code has changed. We can’t just pull in old data and expect the current game engine to play nice with it all. We could almost certainly make it work if we had a bunch of smart engineers working to make it happen, but then those engineers would not be working on other features that might be more valuable to you guys in the long run. Likewise, we could have designers create versions of existing champs that tried to mimic the old data (Season Two abilities, items, tuning, etc.) but that’s a mountain of work for something that might only be fun for a few games or so. In other words, the opportunity cost of that work is probably pretty expensive. So philosophically, we aren’t opposed to playing an older version of LoL, and it might be fun for a short period of time (because we might very well discover that the reasons we made all of the Season Three, Four, and Five changes still exist), but there is a good chance it’s not worth the development effort that it would take.

equinox reaper7/11/2018, 11:56:29 PM1 votes

Sorry no. I would appreciate a legacy game mode of sorts where you could play old champions but even that is pointless. I think people legitimately have just played the game for too long and that's why it seems unfun. I didn't play league for a year and a half(been here since season 3) and I've found season 8 to be AMAZING. It's a refreshing step back into the game for me. So I've come to the conclusion people just played too much and they've burned out.