So while this might seem like a good idea in your head I'll bring up a couple problems this has and why it would be bad news bears.
- Riot would have to figure out at what part of the game to be considered 'Throwback Mode'.
- For this mode you're now going to have disable any champ/item that was released after this arbitrarily decided date. (Balance was kind of built around them not being there at any given time) and enable/re-insert no longer available/defunct items.
- Re-establishing whatever Masteries were the ones in rotation at the time.
- The Old SR had plenty of problems from invisible walls/clipping on certain areas to deceptive size of places depending on which incarnation.
- The massive resource investment of maintaining another incarnation of SR On the servers with all the items/masteries/champions in the exact state they were in during whatever patch is decided upon.
That covers the big 'in general' problems. Now with the idea of flipping a switch based on community consensus for whichever is active
- Dramatically effects LCS (and we all know Riot is all about #LCSBIGPLAYS)
- Would probably wreak havoc with things already in the pipes (Champion Mastery System comes to mind)
- Regardless of which way the switch is toggled you are negatively impacting players. Example: I want to play Gnar on SR with friends in a non custom match. Switch has been flipped to a Throwback mode back in S1. No Gnar. Example 2: I want to play 5 Turret Heimerdinger. Switched to latest and greatest SR, I'm stuck with 3-turret donger. Lose/Lose
The first half of the problems need to be overcome for the idea to see the light of day at all, assuming community interest. The second half can be circumvented if it's instead released as a novelty mode like URF/All For One/Doom Bots.
