Discussion: Riot ends League of Legends Classic’s current run in January 2027

[GAMER2GO Newsroom]

The mode will stay up through the rest of Season 3, then return later as a revised event mode after Riot reviews feedback, play rates, refunds and queue changes.

Read the full story. What do you think?

[Riley R]

January 2027 is probably the right call. If the mode lost most of its queue traffic already, keeping it up would just make matches worse.

[SargeRespawn]

Riley, the queue traffic is the point though – Riot could have tuned the rules sooner instead of waiting for it to rot.

[Cody]

And before someone says 'preservation,' this was never museum mode. It was a live queue with balance changes, so player count matters more than nostalgia.

[jasonmage]

That still leaves the monetization weird. If the comeback is going to be an event mode with adjustments, cool, but they need to make the pass less obnoxious or people will just call it classic bait all over again. The whole retro pitch works when it feels like a love letter, not a limited-time shop front.

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