@Riot Why cant URF be a permanent game mode?

DSRM Mobius·4/3/2015, 5:30:05 PM·3 votes·7,362 views

Yes Urf will start to get boring but its not meant to be played all the time. Urf for me is a game mode to just play and Relax like aram. Dominion without a doubt is the most boring game mode in league, Urf will never be as boring as Dominion. I don't see why Urf cant be a Permanent game mode. Can you give me a list of reasons why it shouldn't be permanent? thanks! :D

38 Comments

Helmight4/3/2015, 6:20:26 PM6 votes

Let's be honest: URF will lose its luster over time and it's pointless to say otherwise. The reason its so well received whenever it pops up is BECAUSE it's not always available. If URF was a constant game mode, it'd eventually become undervalued and underplayed.

There're also the balancing and maintenance costs that Riot'd have to pay to keep it available. Even ARAM ended up with a few unique items and changes after its "official" release just to make sure it wasn't completely un-fun. If URF stuck around, Riot would have to commit to balancing it along with the other modes - which isn't really an option, given how swamped they usually are.

Just enjoy it while it's here, mate. You don't appreciate things you can do every day as much as things you can only do once in a while.

yellowbricks4/3/2015, 7:09:56 PM3 votes

Why can't URF stay? Because all these rank obsessed neckbeards enable riot to not care about fun. They scoff at featured game modes saying they lose their luster or whatever dribble they spout, so riot listens and creates cool game modes but just locks them all away because everyone is so worried about splitting the player base or some bs excuse. So what about TT, Dom, and ARAM? Those sure aren't splitting the player base like everyone thinks, there's a subset of people who play those modes, and they can enjoy it all the time, so it's completely ignorant for riot to string players along who don't care about the drudgery of ranked with a little taste of fun every few months.

My advice is check out Smite, that game has a variety of game modes including a rotation of different gimmick modes, one of which is like URF. This community is too populated by people who think fun is treating a game like a 9-5 job for riot to get any sort of perspective on how an actual fun game should be.

Tsugaga4/3/2015, 5:59:08 PM2 votes

The main reason really is because there are a lot of special game modes and having them all permanent would create too many queues.

Rivvy4/3/2015, 6:40:29 PM2 votes

I can't wait for URF to go away.