What happend to All Random?

[K9999]

Why did they remove it?
Sure, q could take up to 10 minutes, but it was rly fun with mostly chill people.

[AerSilver ♞]

A long time ago mate, few years.
They also removed least played at the same time.

[Deepbluediver]

There were a lot of modes that had very few regular players, so they stopped supporting them.

Might be fun if the brought them back on occasion, like for a weekend special-event or something.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Why did they remove it?
Sure, q could take up to 10 minutes, but it was rly fun with mostly chill people.

All random was great.

[Oldskool]

They removed it because not a lot of players play this mode.

It is a lot of fun! and maybe because players who plays this mode are pretty confident they can somewhat play every hero or wanna learn more and expand their hero pool.

[AerSilver ♞]

Originally posted by Lamb:

They removed it because not a lot of players play this mode.

It is a lot of fun! and maybe because players who plays this mode are pretty confident they can somewhat play every hero or wanna learn more and expand their hero pool.

It's kind of a dumb reason, not a lot of people play ability draft either and the ones who do abandon when they don't get shukuchi,essence shift or burrowstrike. Nothing wrong with leaving these modes as an option, I don't mind the queue time since I do other things meanwhile.

[Deepbluediver]

Originally posted by Rusty Shackleford:

All random was great.

I think it had its up moments and down moments, than that's kinda the problem- why take a chance on having a good match with All Random mode when I can just do All Pick and be much more likely of getting a good match?

All Random sounds interesting until you get a hero that you absolutely have no idea how to use, or your team is 4 tanks and a support while the other team has actual carry-heroes.

I sometimes do Single Draft or Random draft which provide a lot of the benefits of All Random (you're not up against someone spamming their 400th match of Invoker or against yet another Sniper picker) but also mitigate many of the drawbacks of the ABSOLUTE randomness of All Random mode.
If you really miss All Random, try one of those other 2 modes I mentioned instead.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Originally posted by Deepbluediver:

Originally posted by Rusty Shackleford:

All random was great.

All Random sounds interesting until you get a hero that you absolutely have no idea how to use, or your team is 4 tanks and a support while the other team has actual carry-heroes.

That's exactly what made all random fun. You had to get wild.

[1MantisPhoenix]

Originally posted by Rusty Shackleford:

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Why did they remove it?
Sure, q could take up to 10 minutes, but it was rly fun with mostly chill people.

All random was great.

When dota stopped rewarding RANDOM, the players stopped Randoming,
♥♥♥♥ that frog icicle pop.

[Deepbluediver]

Originally posted by Rusty Shackleford:

That's exactly what made all random fun. You had to get wild.

There's a good kind of random and a bad kind of random, and the issue here is that spending an hour or more HOPING for a chance at the good kind of random wasn't attractive to most people.

As I said, other sort-of-random-ish modes provided much of the benefit with fewer of the drawbacks. If that doesn't work for you, well, I hate to say it but most of the DotA community disagrees, and Valve caters to where the market is. Sorry.