To be fair, you guys are comparing a mode that was in ALPHA, that had NO REAL BALANCE DONE TO IT, to something that you guys showed a hell of a lot more support and work twards that was in beta-near release state on it's debut, that also is a completely different gameplay genre, that people who don't actually play the game can do.
That's like comparing a watermelon to a orange. I seriously think you guys didn't give it enough of a chance and are majorly to blame for why NB didn't do as well as it did, especially since you guys rushed it out and called it a alpha to begin with.
TFT’s development was the fastest-moving dev cycle I’ve ever seen at this company. Like, when we were only a few weeks away from shipping on PBE it still looked like trash and there was this bug that made it so Swain’s ult played non-stop. Endless crows screaming. It’s a MIRACLE that players actually thought TFT was in a decent state when we got it out the door.