Keep the map. Put it on a rotation with Howling Abyss for ARAM. Let the map skin be chosen when making custom games. Everybody wants the skin kept.
Rioters, do not your incredible amount of work put into this map be archived away for players to be disappointed.
ElJanitorFrank5 votesLast few sentences from the reveal page:
"we’re still exploring post-event options."
junglerboy161 votesbasically means they are waiting to hear how loudly we all cry out for it to stay. just because they already said they are exploring options doesn't mean stay quiet about it, because they could take it the opposite way and think we dislike the map.
ElJanitorFrank1 votesIt isn't easy completely changing the visuals for a map. There is no way they'd put in this much effort and just trash the whole thing.
Auroramancer1 votesThey haven't trashed any of the gamemodes that they made, they just archived them. We don't want Bilgewater ARAM to be archived
ElJanitorFrank1 votesAnd it's not going to be.
They didn't pour in entirely new assets to the featured game modes. The most they did was add in sand effects to Dominion for the Shurima event.
Sarutobi4 votesi really hope they keep it. have it be random when playing normal ARAM, and custom be able to choose, and hopefully this goes for other map skins they might make in the future!
junglerboy162 votesseriously, they should just keep it out as an option permanently, not even a rotation, just a "select map skin" option.
WordsMeanThings1 votesAs much as I'd love to see that, I imagine that the coding/programming just isn't that simple. Or at the very least the server space and/or function might prohibit something like that, though I'm not a programmer or computer whiz and couldn't really speak to specifics.
In any case, I definitely hope they can make something work to keep the map, but I don't think it's as simple as some in the community think it is.
junglerboy162 votesOh, no I doubt it would be a simple thing, but the amount of effort and detail they've put into it (it is functionally a reskin almost on the level of the SR update) makes me think that they are more likely than not going to want to invest a little extra time to get it put in place for common use.
B2B The Coach1 votesThis map is gorgeous! both the skin and the music! I love them so much! Actually i'll play aram only for the music! i'll be very disappointed if they'll archive it!
Solaxo1 votesThe must keep it. Seriously, they're the only moba developers who don't want us to have fun
Hupsis1 votesMaybe a new 3v3 ARAM mode with the bilgewater map skin.
Saianna1 votesI'm playing ARAM like every second day and i have not seen this map ever once.. Now people beg Riot to keep it... Wtf? How did I miss that map?!
Auroramancer1 votesThat's because it's not even being used yet. It's for the Bilgewater event that will be coming out soon
Saianna1 votesYeah i've made some research about it. Looks kinda cool. I really hope Riot will keep & use this map