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[SUGGESTION] Rotating Featured Game Modes

Ginny·1/18/2015, 9:13:04 PM·135 votes·5,451 views

I had posted this on the PBE boards 7-8 months ago without any kind of reply or acknowledgement from Riot - yet it's currently the highest rated thread under General PBE Feedback. Please keep this in mind when you read this thread.

Please read all of the post before commenting or rating. Please remember to vote up if you agree with my idea so it can gather more attention!

The community has an annoying habit of continuously asking for URF back, especially in places where requests like that do not belong. They do not realise, however, that bringing URF back as a permanent game mode would cause it to become pretty boring after some time.

My suggestion to both make the community happy and prevent URF from getting too boring is to rotate previous Featured Game Modes.

Allow me to offer a short explanation:

One day, probably a Tuesday to coincide with free champion rotation switching, one featured game mode would be available to play for five days. Of course, this would be tedious to do every week and quickly lose its appeal if there is always a featured game mode available. That's why I suggest rotating them in two-week intervals with five days of that featured mode available.

I've made a calendar below because I feel like my explanation wasn't too clear:

http://i.imgur.com/H5Yy1HI.png

This would provide varying fun to the community, allowing them to revisit their favourite game modes from the past, and would require very little actual work to implement, as far as I know. This would also allow you to come up with new game modes without having to worry about "will it be as successful as URF?"

Thanks for reading!

55 Comments

Solaxo1/19/2015, 8:07:41 AM13 votes

They're doing this in Smite and it works, they should do it in LoL too..

scrub boi1/18/2015, 9:16:26 PM11 votes

Amazing idea c:

Hello I am Bird1/18/2015, 9:31:41 PM5 votes

All my yes. I joined just as mirror mode was ending, and I always wanted to play that. I would love seeing Azir mirror modes >:D

DynamiteGazelle1/19/2015, 9:06:09 AM5 votes

As fun as they are, I think having a featured game mode every other week is a bit a too often. I think once a month or possibly even every two months is more optimal because it gives us more time to look forward to it, and therefore more enjoyment when we play.

Special game modes always drag those players taking a break back from their slumber, which is good for the health of the game, but if they were available as often as you're asking, it would become so routine as to not even be particularly exciting anymore.

I flippin love pizza to death, but if I had it all day everyday I probably wouldn't excite me anymore. Also I'd be morbidly obese but that's beside the point..

But I do agree that it would be nice for there to at least be a regular schedule

Cerbearus1/19/2015, 3:43:09 AM3 votes

I believe Riot said they wanted to do something like this once they had a few game modes done. That was probably 2 years ago.

DoinBarrelRolls1/21/2015, 10:12:32 AM2 votes

I agree with this completely. Like others said, Smite has this as a daily random mode and I love it. Also, I wish there was a 4v4 map with 2 curved lanes. Idk why, I just do. :)

Permitted Goose1/21/2015, 7:29:58 PM2 votes

i would love this too happen. iGaren T that riot will look at this.

FatesDefiler1/20/2015, 3:54:54 AM2 votes

yes, yes, yes, and yes. some of these game modes i didn't hear about and never got the chance to play. also whatever it takes to bring snowdown back, i'm in complete agreement with.

Missing Number1/29/2015, 5:23:21 PM2 votes

i second / third / fourth / fifth ....... infinity'th that motion, but i wouldn't have gaps, i would have mode rotation on weeks opposite to champ rotation so say 1st 2 weeks of jan is new champ rotation, then 2nd and 3rd weeks are new mode, get it? that way you get to try new champs and new modes periodicly and overlapping so you can try new champs in new modes

Fizz Taco1/20/2015, 12:56:32 AM2 votes

Rito plz. I joined late after URF. I saw videos of people playing it and it seems really fun. Pleaseeeee.

Gallowgrim1/19/2015, 4:03:16 PM2 votes

Brilliant. I endorse this.

7ha7guy7771/20/2015, 6:52:36 AM2 votes

Ultra Rapid Fridays?

Noam Braumsky1/19/2015, 1:02:24 AM2 votes

I think it would make more sense to add it on weekends.

Ginny2/3/2015, 12:15:47 AM1 votes

Hm, still nothing. It would be nice to see a Riot post, even if it's just an explanation as to why this hasn't happened.

Thanks everyone for all of the support, though!

Dragonlord71379/16/2015, 2:15:58 AM1 votes

Most people play league just to have fun and playing alternative game modes are always fun for a little while until they eventually get bored of it. Maybe once a week is too common I think that once a month would be a better rotation since it would take longer for people to get bored of the game modes.

KFC Overlord9/16/2015, 2:24:12 PM1 votes

That devalues the gamemodes. They're so fun because they're only around once a year or so. It wouldn't be as fun to do the same mode 12 times a year.

Mister Sunglow9/26/2015, 11:37:25 AM1 votes

YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS TAVERN BRAWL LoL EDITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jmaishere1/19/2015, 3:58:15 AM1 votes

what about ascension?

ABlueQuaker1/19/2015, 4:12:20 AM1 votes

I think 2 a month would suffice and being able to vote for the game modes would be good too.

Lyokocoder121/19/2015, 5:50:58 PM1 votes

I think this would be great! Please riot... make this happen! :D

Silverthane1/19/2015, 7:07:14 PM1 votes

so basically kinda like smite? except they seem to last longer but theres not a mode everyday. i really like your idea though hope riot listens...these modes were so fun. only suggestiion is to add the All For One the regular one where the opposite teams could lock in different champs.

JustBoneBrook1/19/2015, 7:28:00 PM1 votes

Well take smite every day it a new mode of game: http://smite.gamepedia.com/Match_of_the_Day

==Matches of the Day== {| class="wikitable" |- class="prettytable"

! Name !! Description
'''AD-Day'''
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'''Arachnophobia'''
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'''Battle of the Beards'''
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'''Big Ballers'''
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'''Birds of a Feather'''
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'''Blood Brother Brawl'''
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''' Cat Scratch Fever'''
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'''Clash of the Titan-Killers!'''
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'''Cool Cats'''
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'''Cup Runneth Over'''
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'''Death and Taxes'''
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'''Domination Classic'''
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'''East vs. West'''
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'''Faces of Death'''
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'''Fire and Ice'''
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'''Freedom Free-For-All'''
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'''Friday the 13th'''
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'''Giant Growth'''
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'''Giant Slayers'''
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'''Grab Bag'''
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'''Grand Melee'''
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'''Healing Touch'''
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'''Hoarder'''
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'''Kraken-head'''
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'''Labors of Love'''
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'''Ladies First'''
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'''Make it Rain'''
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'''Marked for Destruction'''
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'''Masters of the Hunt'''
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'''Norse vs South'''
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'''Open Season'''
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'''Overconsumption'''
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'''Playing With Fire'''
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'''Ragnarok!'''
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'''River Delta'''
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'''Roulette'''
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'''Siege Smackdown'''
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'''Smite Launch Special'''
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'''Solar Flare'''
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'''Super Sized Showdown'''
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'''T.G.I. Freya's Day'''
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'''Tank Warfare'''
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'''The Perfect Storm'''
kaister9411/19/2015, 8:24:27 PM1 votes

Great idea i think that riot/league of legends should do this for not only the players who have played it but for the newer players too!

tdub22171/19/2015, 8:38:10 PM1 votes

I agree with this but i feel like it might be able to happen every week and add Ascension and Doom Bots to the list

xGvPx1/19/2015, 9:02:37 PM1 votes

I see Smite has been mentioned, and I love how they give a WOTD in each mode in Smite, another thing which would be nice for League (at least maybe once a week, if once a day is too much).

TheInbisibleMan1/19/2015, 9:48:43 PM1 votes

Awesome idea, and with this, in the snow down they can use old modes + the new one.

Swood Grompet1/20/2015, 12:17:23 AM1 votes

I don't think Riot want's to do it because it takes the fun and surprise out of the gamemodes.

huhwhat1/20/2015, 6:48:14 AM1 votes

Great suggestion, but its been suggested before, and as usual, it'll just be ignored, or at least, not commented on by someone at Riot who could make this happen (no offense to new Rioters but a new guy who works in an unrelated area who thinks its a great idea too isn't exactly the kind of personal promising feedback that Riot used to give). On the bright side, maybe they'll start bringing these new modes out more often. I guess Nemesis is around the corner....

Ginny1/22/2015, 10:21:52 PM1 votes

It's only been 4 days, but I'm very hopeful Riot will reply this time! :-)