[TFT] Teamfight Tactics Release Timeline and Temporary Restrictions

RiotRiot Beernana·Jun 25, 2019·1 votes·351,824 views

Hey Everyone,

Here’s some information about how Teamfight Tactics will be rolling out over the course of this week. We’re releasing TFT on a deliberate timeline and with temporary restrictions to keep the servers stable as y’all show them your love in the early hours of TFT’s release. Keep in mind that TFT is still in a “Beta” period. We'll be looking to ship bug fixes and balance changes daily if need be.

Timeline (Pacific Timezone)

This is the plan, exact timing may vary.

Tuesday (6/25) Note: There’ll be a Level 10 requirement for TFT on the first day and game starts will be throttled.

Wednesday (6/26)

AM:

PM:

TR
RU
EUNE/EUW

Thursday (6/27)

Friday (6/28)

Missions and Modes:

In some regions, (NA,EUW/N, KR, VN, TW, LAN and LAS) TFT’s missions and client hub will be enabled one week after the mode is released. We want to be sure that the missions and beta pass are functioning as intended. We don’t want you to think you’ve completed missions to get your free Little Legend only to have them break. Once we’re confident that everything is working, we’ll get the pass and missions to all regions. Note: you will not earn progress towards the free “Beta Pass” until this system is up and running. This means that your free Little Legend, emotes, icon, and board skin will be delayed.

Level Cap

TFT will be temporarily restricted to level 10+ accounts on the OCE and JP servers.

General Measures

We’re doing a few things in all regions to help with the expected increase in server load.

Transfers are disabled until July 1st
Practice Tool is disabled
Custom modes are limited to 10 players minimum

We understand that some of these changes will have a significant impact on many of you. We’re excited to get TFT into your hands, so thank you for your patience as we get this thing out the door.

615 Comments

AniMoLoLJun 26, 2019172 votes

Is it so hard to give Local Times? If we (the players / CUSTOMERS) can do it so can you... Also if you're giving us the time according to Pacific Time ZONE you SHOULD consider the giant time gap between NA and EU... For us in EU pacific time PM will be basically TOMORROW, Thursday not today Wednesady...

It's sad to me that you do the same bs like every other NA based gaming company... You think mostly about NA while the rest of the world (the majority) is left in the dark... For once I'd like NOT to be punished because I live in EU currently... In today's world it shouldn't be so hard to release games simultaneously in EVERY region despite time zone differences... You're not a small Indie company, you should be able to afford more servers if that's the issue... Sigh... I'm dissapointed and I hope TFT will at least be worth the wait...

radetariJun 26, 201948 votes

^This

SKYWAK3RGREJun 25, 201941 votes

Hey, when does it release for EUW? Wednesday PM in what time zone? NA?

RiotRiot CactopusJun 25, 2019100 votes

Normally we’d be able to say, but in this case we’re being vague on purpose. Two reasons:

we need the flexibility and don’t know the exact time
we don’t want players to tor%%%% the queue all at the same time

basically we don’t want all our shit to blow up lol

3LeM3nTJun 25, 201912 votes

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IAmSchnookJun 25, 201970 votes

They like talking to us, let them. It's a good thing

Smoke DZAJun 25, 201915 votes

So why dont patch really early in the morning, when many players cant even log in ? In the evening will mean a way bigger queue. AM would mean that not as many try to log in at the same time, cause people work and stuff lol

HennerPolisJun 25, 20198 votes

PM in Pacific timezone is late evening to early hours of the morning for EU.

X99MYKJun 26, 201936 votes

Have to admit I'm feeling pretty disappointed in RIOT. It seems very sneaky to announce that the game will be released Wednesday PM for EU Players, when in fact by their timezone that makes it the small hours of Thursday morning for EU players.

Granted it says above the timeline is for Pacific Time Zone, But for the sake of 10 minutes of someones time to actually convert all the posts to their own regions timezone would have saved a lot of upset and anger. I like many others planned my schedule around having Wednesday evening free to play this game, only to find out I will not be able to. I understand Thursday AM isn't exactly a long wait from there, but its beside the point. If people knew from the beginning it wouldnt be available til Thursday morning and weren't under the false claim of it being Wednesday afternoon it would have made this alot smoother, and a lot less upset current and potential new players. Not the start you should want with your playerbase.

Like i said, for the sake of 10 minutes of converting timezones and posting them correctly for each region..

IayunJun 25, 201935 votes

Why does EU has to wait so long when our day begins earlier than in NA?

PuddyJun 25, 201927 votes

What time Wednesday PM? Im asking because it could be midnight or it could be afternoon. If its afternoon a lot of us can play after work so that kinda info is nice to have (:

Athenais01Jun 25, 20199 votes

For Europe Wednesday PM PST is early morning Thursday.

RiotRiot BeernanaJun 25, 201929 votes

Totally understand where you're coming from, but we're being vague here on purpose so that we can be flexible on timing if we need to adjust and to help slow down the rush to the servers.

cale1991Jun 26, 201947 votes

i mean, what's the point of being vague? when it comes online within 30 seconds it's gonna be on reddit and in another 30 seconds after being posted on reddit the entire internet will know. you basically delayed the info for a total of 60 seconds.

AlaorJun 25, 201925 votes

1 more day waiting but OCE and JP can play yeah good joke

Sona PingJun 25, 2019171 votes

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1 more day waiting but OCE and JP can play yeah good joke

"I don't know what a time zone is. Is it a Zilean ability?"

GaliöJun 25, 201910 votes

Not only that but Japan and OCE entire playerbase is like.. 1/8th that of NA and NA isnt even a large playerbase compared to EUW/EUNE , Korea, and the gigantor that is China.

KyolusJun 25, 201945 votes

This is all in "Pacific Timezone", has nothing to do with timezones... OCE and JP are just the test dummies.

WìndwaIkerJun 25, 201913 votes

Test dummies for what? It's been on PBE for a week now

Violet KitsuneJun 25, 201952 votes

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Test dummies for what? It's been on PBE for a week now

Test dummies for the live servers obviously

HananimJun 26, 201922 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sona Ping,realm=NA,application-id=A7LBtoKc,discussion-id=hvzgE6om,comment-id=00030001,timestamp=2019-06-25T15:35:17.168+0000)

"I don't know what a time zone is. Is it a Zilean ability?"

Since korea gets it 2 days after japan and oce it makes absolutely no fucking sense. "i dont know what geography is, is it taliyahs passive?"

SAD GekyumeJun 26, 201925 votes

Ehh first the PBE waiting screen is 24h, then the release dates are on different days, then we don't even get the hour... would've been better to have released the EU version today at 3 am when 90%+ of the players are obviously sleeping...

zanskarJun 26, 201923 votes

So, PM PDT (12h in PDT) il equal to 21h CET. A french rioter says it'll release at 05h the 27th, so 9pm PDT the 26th. Another rioter (american), says there is no particular timezone mentionned. If you want to be vague, well, you did it perfectly. The french page of TFT tells you that it'll release 26th afternoon (they could say evening if it's 9pm in PDT. Or morning if it's for 5am CET. Rioter contradict themselves Seriously, well played, no on knows when it'll release

I love your work, the game seems awesome

Sincerly yours, A very impatient player

That Warwick GodJun 26, 201914 votes

I don't understand, does riot not have any good servers? I thought they have the budget and man power for this. Not going lie but it seems silly that riot is struggling when ever a new game mode is out, like clash and tft for example. Makes me wonder what they're doing with the millions they have. Wtf they raise NA rp prices (or at least planning too if they didn't already ) yet they can't afford decent servers? Wtf they doing with all that money?

The Dancing wolfJun 26, 20199 votes

[{quoted}](name=That Warwick God,realm=NA,application-id=A7LBtoKc,discussion-id=hvzgE6om,comment-id=0032,timestamp=2019-06-26T05:54:23.087+0000)

I don't understand, does riot not have any good servers? I thought they have the budget and man power for this. Not going lie but it seems silly that riot is struggling when ever a new game mode is out, like clash and tft for example. Makes me wonder what they're doing with the millions they have. Wtf they raise NA rp prices (or at least planning too if they didn't already ) yet they can't afford decent servers? Wtf they doing with all that money?

i fully understand you*[slayer-jinx-wink]*

proSynJun 26, 20194 votes

you cant just buy more servers and it just works lmao. you obviously have no networking knowledge

woolaJun 26, 20196 votes

You can still upgrade them. And make them better. It's not like we're living with Dial Up internet.

The Dancing wolfJun 26, 201914 votes

i just woke up at 08:40 am and updated league and tft is not out for me and im on eune/euw [zombie-brand-clap]

PoltoJun 26, 201912 votes

And with the release of TFT the League Community was trolled again... Thanks

GodKingSquirrelJun 26, 201912 votes

So the update happened where is teamfight tactics?

blameDmouseJun 26, 201918 votes

Jebaited

InfernoClawJun 26, 201910 votes

It is now 8 am in NA, where's my TFT :(

3picgam3rJun 26, 20197 votes

I'm on the updated client on the NA servers, but I am having trouble finding the game mode. Can I get some help please? lol

Mr OtterJun 26, 201914 votes

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I'm on the updated client on the NA servers, but I am having trouble finding the game mode. Can I get some help please? lol

Its still not out yet... Riot is memeing us or some shit

Mr OtterJun 26, 20196 votes

Okay soo... where is TFT on NA?

E BóiJun 26, 20197 votes

WOOSH it's gone.

DeathByGrompJun 26, 20195 votes

RIP the Dream.

Karn BishopJun 25, 20194 votes

edit: yes i get they are cosmetic now, the op i was reading made it sound like you could buy upgraded heros from eggs only, i also understand that mods don't enforce their verbal abuse policy when they disagree with the person being targeted.

Why is this gamemode pay to win? i can't upgrade my little heros unless i buy eggs? yeah go screw off with this gamemode because i don't do pay to win.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/teamfight-tactics/cXnTKtKe-psa-dont-buy-little-legends-when-tft-releases-this-pricing-model-is-scummy-even-by-riot-standards

Blueberry JunehaJun 25, 201923 votes

The little legends have 0 effects to the gameplay.

They are more like summoner icons than skins; does your summoner icon win your games?

Karn BishopJun 25, 20193 votes

Ok the author uses confusing wording in his post but still the model is scummy.

TheDeadsh0tJun 25, 201916 votes

wait, so you read the title of one post, but didnt actually read the post, and decided to write off the whole gamemode because of that?

Karn BishopJun 25, 20192 votes

I'll be honest the game mode seems rather dumb compared to their past ideas that died because they refused to support them properly, TT, old magma chamber concept, crystal scar ect ect.

it looks like they designed an entire mode solely to support loot boxes and i guess i don't get why anyone would want to support baby EA, whats next unskippable ads between league of legends matches?

TheDeadsh0tJun 25, 20198 votes

Is this based on your experience playing the past game modes?

Karn BishopJun 25, 20193 votes

yes, the only reason gamemodes like crystal scar failed is because of how neglected they were balance wise, no effort was ever really put into them outside of token stuff to shut people up.

TheDeadsh0tJun 25, 201912 votes

the reason why i think that you havent played crystal scar....

is because crystal scar isnt a gamemode, its a map.

dominion was the gamemode

also, it failed because less than 0.5% of players played it...there was not a large enough community to have balanced matches, and riot couldnt spend time balancing a game that the community never played, so riot made the decision to drop it.

a game mode that is clogging their queue times has already had a much bigger impact than something like dominion did, so should be considered in a different pool, say like ARAM.

If you had compared it to that, that would've made much more sense

MinardeJun 26, 20196 votes

dominion was the gamemode

also, it failed because less than 0.5% of players played it...there was not a large enough community to have balanced matches, and riot couldnt spend time balancing a game that the community never played, so riot made the decision to drop it.

Small correction here: even Riot acknowledged that they dropped the ball on supporting Dominion. Supposedly, they internally pivoted towards growing SR and LCS around the time of Dom's launch. That's (partially) why Dom never really got any balance patches.

Claiming that Riot dropped Dominion because "[they] couldn't spend time balancing a game that the community never played" is a massive oversimplification that overlooks a significant part of the situation. Riot didn't spend resources on Dominion because the community didn't play, and the community didn't play Dominion because Riot didn't spend resources on it.

As a side note, comparing TFT to ARAM would've made much less sense. The guy you're replying to is arguing for game modes that failed because of Riot's lack of support. ARAM succeeded despite a lack of support.