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I mostly never post reviews, I reinstalled the game after many months, close to a year just to play this game mode with my partner, I must say this game mode single-handedly gave me a fresh restart of league, and I'm really enjoying it so far. I thought that it's gonna be a permanent game mode like TFT, since it has a special icon beside of TFT, a ranking system, variant gorgeous maps, augments etc. surely it has potentials to be greater and I myself have tons of ideas for it, yet it seems riot doesn't care about what players want these days, it's mainly about what they want, as I learned this lesson couple of years ago, that was the reason why I finally decided to quit the game.

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9 months ago - /u/RiotMaxw3ll - Direct link

Thank you for the kind words! We definitely haven’t seen the last of Arena; the team is discussing the future plans for the mode and none of the options on the table involve abandoning it. Brightmoon and Meddler will have a dev update soon that includes what the next steps are for the mode.

9 months ago - /u/Riot_Riru - Direct link

Originally posted by Deadpotato

I'm 90% sure it's gonna be back and the 10% is only because Riot has made some sketchy decisions before

I'd love to see the stats on play rate (paging /u/Riot_Riru are you guys willing or intending to share/publish?) but I gotta imagine anecdotally it was sufficiently popular

me and my buddy IRL played a ton of it because we didn't always have 3+ online for SR draft and we didn't always have a guaranteed window of time so Arena fit perfectly into 9 minute blocks

and considering they released more than 1 balance patch I have to think this means they're serious about the mode

it is definitely the most polished Featured Game Mode that isn't TFT (which is autochess clone and not really League, surprised it used the same client even), since probably ARAM

We don't have any plans to share specific numbers at the moment, but I can say we do talk about how Arena has been doing and what we're thinking about for the future of Arena and other game modes in the next dev update video.

Sorry for the non-answer, but the next video will help answer a lot of these questions.

9 months ago - /u/Riot_Riru - Direct link

Originally posted by Deadpotato

appreciate the reply nonetheless!

No problem! Next dev video should be coming out early next week