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Having all alternative announcers and maps be time restricted feels terrible.

Ysayle·9/8/2017, 4:07:07 PM·28 votes·1,376 views

It may come as no surprise, but LoL's basic announcer is...bland, boring, and uninteresting. Compare it to a game such as Hots and its myriads of varied announcers along with their broad variety of voice lines, and it's not even a fair comparison.

The announcer is an important part of the MOBA experience. it puts a certain tempo and feel to the actions you take. I remember when the bilgewater event rolled around. It was probably the best time I ever had playing LoL. The GP announcer (along with the Butcher's bridge music) really made all the difference, I felt like I was playing a different game. When the event ended, I did everything I could to keep the announcer around, through mods, files edits, and so on. It's not an understatement to say having this alternate announcer gave me a huge boost in desire to keep playing. Having your game "narrated" by an evil pirate king felt amazing!

Now, three years later, we are seeing the next "big" alternate announcer hit the game (SG Ahri). It may not be as amazing as GP was, but it still feels awesome to play! However, once again, that announcer is limited in time, and when it'll be gone, if we want to keep it around, we'll need to attempt underhanded and unreliable techniques in order to get it back. And we don't even know if it will naturally come back eventually. Heck, GP announcer never came back, and it's been three years.

My point being, you have made a lot of awesome content, such as those two announcer, or butcher's bridge, which was much funnier to play than the howling abyss, imo. It makes me quite sad to see that kind of content being time limited, and probably never coming back. I would buy an announcer pack, even if it cost 1820 RP, without any second thoughts. I would equally buy a skin for a map, even if it had to be 3250 RP.

I just wish I could experience those again, and I would also enjoy SG Ahri not disappearing! (Sorry for any english mistake, I'm not a native speaker!)

10 Comments

nGio9/9/2017, 7:57:31 AM3 votes

I always wonder why so much cool stuff gets locked in a vault. Why can't we play URF or One For All whenever we want? Why can't we use the custom announcers? Even shitty HoN had custom voice packs that you could buy.

For a game that was born of a custom game mode inside of another game, it's really sad how restrictive Riot is with imo their best content and game modes.

I feel like everything is just pushed into a bland static 'competitive like the pros do or gtfo'. I am definitely in the minority here, but I'd rather be playing a game of URF with rl friends, and have SG Ahri calling out "Shoppin' time!", than be stuck in a boring ranked, where most games now are a stressful 15 minute 1 sided dick stomp.

I'm the customer. Let me decide what game modes I like, what announcers I like, and what map themes I want to use.

FantasySniper9/9/2017, 3:02:16 PM3 votes

RIP Murder Bridge.

Digielf9/8/2017, 4:12:20 PM2 votes

Yea i still wonder why they keep this old announcer, that and the cursor are the 2 remaining outdated features in the game with the upcoming rune update (together with some outdated champions but that is another issue).

I Love Thresh9/9/2017, 3:07:51 PM1 votes

RIP Dark Star Thresh announcer forever forgotten

ZT Xperimentor9/9/2017, 3:10:34 PM1 votes

Isn't it funny how they repeatedly make cool content then refuse to keep it? But continue to screw up basic things like client stability going in/out of games.

SSShutTheDuckUp9/9/2017, 8:53:36 PM1 votes

Well, I would like if different announcers are obtainable with IP/BE (even on sales - think of Chroma skins). For example I do not like the Ahri one, however the GP was a masterpiece. Starting with "Here come the minions", "Got yourself a pair, "Yer mate's feeding the fishes". I would totally have it every game, but I do not want to download the custom skin software.