Riot is handing out quite a few incentives for flex queue

Oakleaf Ranger·Nov 9, 2016·1 votes·572 views

So where are the incentives for playing solo queue? It seems like Riot is basically announcing that no solo/duo players are going to willingly play flex queue without incentives. Well they are going to have to do better than that if they think I'm going to willingly play boosted queue. That end of season reward is going to have to be something worth wild to get me to play flex queue. Even then once people get at least gold what is to stop them from just sitting on their rank and never touching flex queue again? Sorry Riot your going to need better incentives than just better position preference as bait.

3 Comments

Maximum MordeNov 9, 20161 votes

The incentive to play solo queue is you don't have to deal with as many toxic 3 man groups. Still have to deal with toxic duos though :(. Rito should totally get rid of the duos in solo/duo and force them into flex to improve the health of flex queue. Yeah, that's totally why I think we should move them.

dunder killNov 9, 20161 votes

Duos aren't nearly as bad because the remaining solo players still are the majority. The problem was with 3-4 people premades who basically got to shot call for everyone and anyone who didnt agree got flamed and reported

Oakleaf RangerNov 9, 20161 votes

Kind of the underlying point I'm trying to make is that if riot has to give incentives for solo players to play flex queue then they are sort of admitting that is not a good idea since solo players would never bother without them. I feel they are just going to end up making into a 5v5 at some point do lack of solo players to keep the queue time reasonable. Personally its gonna feel like I told you so moment since that's what they were trying force down peoples throat for season 6 but so many people were hating them for it.