User blog comment:Reilock/Retiring Dominion: Thoughts/@comment-3974211-20160229214046

The thing I hate most about the removal of Dominion is that we'll probably never see a new map. Riot has decided that the amount of resources required aren't worth the what they get back. But this is a real shame because I really think that League of Legends could work with a "Casual Queue" like Smite and Heroes of the Storm have, where it just cycles between a handful of "lesser" game modes. The issue Riot has where Feature Modes becomes stale (when people start "playing to win", from a meta perspective) is completely avoided in HOTS because you pick your comp before you know what map you're playing - you literally only find out the map on the loading screen. Picking a Win-Dominion comp and getting placed into a Colosseum map where the meta is all about one deathmatch/brawl - you're not gonna have a good time. And I really want a queue like this because I'm getting really bored of Classic because no-one plays for fun any more, and re-releasing old Feature Game Modes just sees people playing the same obnoxious champions every time... Dominion held my interest for a good 2000 games before the global-map-presence meta started kicking off, and then I went onto ARAM but my interest wasn't held nearly as long because I own every champion and I really don't want to play most of them.