It's shitty that we're locked out of zones and I'm expecting them going for a rotation-type approach with the modes.

My advice to those displeased is to contact Nintendo and express their frustration. Complaints in these threads probably aren't going to help. Post on Miiverse that you're not happy, send emails, go onto Nintendo's twitter. Be vocal.

I'll play whatever mode is on. Wonder if it's hourly?

So much freedom is taken away from how a player is supposed to play ...

This is just as annoying as having a game being online only ...

No, no, it's "different" and different is good. Apparently...

Why should people have options in multiplayer online games anyway, they may choose wrong and end up not liking the game and gaming in general, or even get scared.

splatoon apologist saying they dont want to split the userbase because of load times.. lol what? who cares, no one complains about having to wait other games, it happens, but it allows us to play the modes. what the shit nintendo, YOU DONT EVEN DO THIS FOR MARIO KART! so dont give me this "we always do this" please, in mario kart, i can play any style, any speed, anything, it doesn't matter. but in splatoon i cant play seperate modes? fuck off, you got a million players, let me play all the maps, let me play all the modes. This is easy shit!! how do you get the easy things so wrong when youve gotten them right in the past, but get the hard things right? WHAT ARE YOU NINTENDO


rant over

I doubt they've just removed it, just changed it over to the new mode.

A design choice which people think is BS :)

There are only 2 modes in MK8, battle and racing. Splatoon also has two, ranked and turf war. So what you're saying, doesn't make a lot of sense, unless you also count tournaments in mk8, but those have bots, which wouldn't work as well in Splatoon. The only way you can choose your speed etc in mk8 is with friends, which will also come to splatoon in August.

Splatzones are back btw, so that confirms the rotation.

Could there also be other modes coming to regular battle, because there you can also see turf war in the rules box, so maybe there are other rules releasing in the future?

I just don't get why we only get to play on 2 different maps at any time. It's not like they have dozens of them, just a few, so why not make each one available all the time?