The thing that was missing in "Riot pls" blog

SuperJediNinja·Aug 23, 2015·4 votes·598 views

What is riot going to do with dominion ? It's basically a dead game mode....

13 Comments

MinardeAug 23, 20152 votes

Riot's already mentioned that it plans to maintain Dominion (and the rest of the alternate maps). Better support or revivals/relaunches are harder to justify because of the small playerbase. Any comments about the small playerbase being a consequence of the lack of Riot support have pretty much been ignored though.

SuperJediNinjaAug 23, 20151 votes

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Riot's already mentioned that it plans to maintain Dominion (and the rest of the alternate maps). Better support or revivals/relaunches are harder to justify because of the small playerbase. Any comments about the small playerbase being a consequence of the lack of Riot support have pretty much been ignored though.

Great! We are going to have to keep the useless game modes ....

SuperJediNinjaAug 23, 20151 votes

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Great! We are going to have to keep the useless game modes ....

it would be better of they removed them

MinardeAug 23, 20153 votes

How is that "better"? Removing content is a good thing? What's the actual benefit of removing Dominion?

SuperJediNinjaAug 23, 20151 votes

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How is that "better"? Removing content is a good thing? What's the actual benefit of removing Dominion?

It's only used for the daily IP bonus. It's an completely waste of space other than for the five people that actually play the game....

MinardeAug 23, 20156 votes

Just because you don't enjoy the game mode doesn't mean no one does. You also didn't answer how removing Dominion has any sort of net positive impact.

SuperJediNinjaAug 23, 20151 votes

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Just because you don't enjoy the game mode doesn't mean no one does. You also didn't answer how removing Dominion has any sort of net positive impact.

But the fanbase is so small those people will be ignored if this game mode was removed anyway. It could be probably be replaced with a better game mode or they should probably rework dominion all together.

MinardeAug 23, 20151 votes

those people will be ignored if this game mode was removed

That's a negative in every sense.

replaced with a better game mode

Would suffer from the same neglect and abandonment as Dominion, so any replacement mode would probably decline in the same way.

rework dominion all together

See above. Riot doesn't want to devote resources towards a relaunch/rework.

SuperJediNinjaAug 23, 20151 votes

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That's a negative in every sense.

Would suffer from the same neglect and abandonment as Dominion, so any replacement mode would probably decline in the same way.

See above. Riot doesn't want to devote resources towards a relaunch/rework.

"Would suffer from the same neglect and abandonment as Dominion, so any replacement mode would probably decline in the same way."

Well we don't know what the game mode would be.

See above. Riot doesn't want to devote resources towards a relaunch/rework.

So we still have to have a boring ugly dead game mode just to cater to a few people... I don't get it

SKOBODOAug 24, 20152 votes

Eh, Dominion still probably has a higher player-base than Awesomenauts. I wouldn't call it "dead". The map is also useful for Featured Game Modes. Nearly everyone I've talked to (including SR mains) think that URF Dominion is more fun than SR Dominion. Try it the next time URF comes around!

RebonackAug 24, 20152 votes

So we still have to have a boring ugly dead game mode just to cater to a few people... I don't get it

This kind of comment has always puzzled me to no end. Dominion cuts out the laning phase (unless you enjoy laning, then you go bot) and focuses all game on skirmishes, team fights, and ganks. You constantly have somewhere to be and some objective to take, fractions of a second matter. When I play Rift it feels like I'm not actually playing the game 80% of the time.

But I guess people really like the sieging counter-sieging thing? Otherwise Murderbridge wouldn't be so popular.