Why can't Riot bring back Butcher's Bridge?

Raph450·Jun 5, 2016·32 votes·2,436 views

We have two maps for classical gamemode, Summoner's Rift and Twisted Treeline, why not two maps for ARAM? I know some of you will say "Because Riot don't have enough ressources to keep both maps activated" but come on, I doubt that Blizzard have more ressources for HotS than Riot do have for LoL but they have seven maps and each have a different gameplay on it while we have only three maps with almost no gameplay changes! I know ARAM isn't your center of attention but many players loved the butcher bridge and its badass Gangplank announcer voice, so please bring it back or at least as a temporary gamemode.

Also if you plan to do a Lissandra legendary/ultimate skin, remake the Howling Abyss's announcer voice with Liss's voice, it would better I think (because Liss's login screen theme is the Howling Abyss theme and GP's/Bilgewater login screen theme was Butcher Bridge theme too so it would make sense) but if you just bring back Butcher Bridge I would be already completely satisfied.

14 Comments

Friendly RamJun 5, 20165 votes

Hopefully it'll come back in a pack with black market brawlers.

MrRazzleDazzleJun 5, 20167 votes

I would've loved to keep playing black market brawlers for more than the 2 weeks we had it. That should have been a rotating queue game but knowing Riot, they probably got rid of the code citing "resources" and moved on to the next thing they'll start and never finish.

SilmarilJun 6, 20165 votes

Back in the early days, they had 2 Summoner's Rift maps active simultaneously, with a 50/50 chance of getting one of them (a Summer version and an Autumn version). They also had a winter version, but it was seasonal and not random, so it doesn't really count (and technically there was a 4th map, which was also winter but themed around the 2010 Winter Olympics, which was only used once)

It'd be really lame if a fairly young start-up company had the resources to handle 2 concurrent map skins (which didn't seem to have any effect on the game servers), but 6 years and literally a billion dollars later they suddenly "don't have the resources" to handle it. Not that I think that's necessarily the case (though the possible alternatives don't speak well for Riot's image), but I really enjoyed BB, especially since I don't really like the winter thematic in the Howling Abyss, and I would love for it to be a random replacement for HA.

Beyond LegendsJun 6, 20161 votes

But weren't those map simply just recolour of the original? Butcher bridge is very different from howling abyss from new animations and vo's. I'm sure riot would love to do a rotating game mode but I do think they have their hands full on other stuff.

Also they can't just simply hire new programers, it takes month to learn a new coding style and month to put it in.

SilmarilJun 6, 20161 votes

Map assets are stored client-side, how complex/detailed the map is has nothing to do with how difficult it is to implement in a queue. And even though BB looks and sounds different, it's still just a reskin of Howling Abyss.

I'm just saying, they already had a system that allowed for multiple maps to exist within the same queue, and they had a lot less money and manpower back then than they do now. From my admittedly limited perspective, it shouldn't be that much work to do something that they managed to do with much fewer resources already 5 years ago.

Beyond LegendsJun 6, 20161 votes

I don't know, but I highly doubt it's that simple. I mean this isn't the first time someone ask for BB back and it was just that easy technically I don't see wht they don't. Beside I doubt the tech five years ago would work, most of those old programers are gone and the new ones doesn't have a clue how to work those. Why do you think Riot Client lore is so bad. The spagetti code for those are impossible to untangle.

BruatarJun 10, 20163 votes

Have to admit I'd really love to see this map again myself..It just made ARAM so much better. The atmosphere was a lot more enjoyable..It's a shame they would just make that as a temporary map when it was so nice. It would be cool if they gave us the option to have it like that all the time..If not as a permanent replacement...

GreenLoreJun 5, 20161 votes

Given the past years they seem to make one map every season(s3 had the howling abyss,s4 had the new summoners rift,s5 had butchers bridge),so we might get one this year as well and hopefully they reveal their plans for map skins at that point.

CabalistJun 6, 20161 votes

Add it to da rotating q pls rito

Synnx7Jun 6, 20161 votes

No resource Please, play on our SR , and spend ur money on this shitty moba. Quitted 3 months ago, , still surprised how riot still doesnt give 2 fucks. They even lie to their playerbase, yeah, they even admit that they lied. Trash company, hope bankruptcy is on its way

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