User blog comment:CrashySmashy/What else if not new champs?/@comment-5266525-20120830013449

I think you've massively misunderstood what people like in LoL. It's not the new champs that come out every few weeks that keep people playing. As you have pointed out, really old games such as Quake and Counter Strike still see regular play despite their age. Modding has some part in it, but I have my doubts the majority are doing it just for that. LoL at its core is a very competitive game with interesting and varied gameplay, and it's that keeps people coming back.

With that in mind, your suggestions will quickly lose their appeal once they've come and gone. New maps for Classic mode in particular have been discussed to death by now, but the general response to that is that it won't contribute any extra depth to the core game and would just splinter the community into segments all favouring different maps... and that's assuming anybody would even bother to play them (Dominion says hi).

And random factors that favour one side/champion over the other is a definite no-no. The hardcore crowd does not like RNG. It's why they removed dodge and why crit is generally frowned upon as a mechanic.

So to put it simply, the gameplay itself is all the reason people will need to keep clicking the blue/gold "L" icon on desktop. Short of Riot making some impossibly huge balance blunder that they refuse to correct, I don't see that changing any time soon.