It's been a good run, I'm really going to miss the experience of five random people getting together to accomplish a central goal. It seems we'll need to officially adapt to the new paradigm now, however, and I can't help but feeling a bit disappointed this is no longer a thing.
I appreciate that Pwyff asked the question "what do we gain from Dynamic over SoloQ", I do NOT appreciate Socrates' bullshit non-answer of dancing around "oh there's MANY things" and basically just saying "people are less toxic". What do you base that on? And even if true, that should NOT be an overriding factor for such a major change. Oh, you can have a "fairer" system that is more toxic, or a bullshit system that is less toxic, which do you want?
Also, I agree with GBay99 & Scarra, that role selection had MUCH more to do with some of their stats than "Dynamic Q". I'll say right now, that if it goes back to "5 random people, call your role" (or even MORE than 2 role options before queue) then I'm done with ranked. Nothing in the conversation around the 15 minute mark explains how dynamic queue was a GOOD idea and an "upgrade" over what was before.
It's nonsense. Clumping every queue configuration together makes no sense for ranked ladder since solo to 5-man are different skills and experiences (plus possible voice chat/pre-game advantages). No matter how hard you try to adjust it, it's inherently a broken system if you take competitive play seriously. There is simply no other way around it. That's the problem for me. It's not just unfair matchmaking, it's that it lacks validity as a ranking system since it doesn't force consistency in the experience despite putting everything on a single ladder.
They could at least show a solo ranking separately though even if it's all DQ still.
Good Riddance, i get to play as a team in a team based game.
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I've never really preferred playing ranked with friends, if I'm going into a stressful environment I would rather get annoyed with myself and random people rather than people I have to see face to face the next day.
Also, if you want to improve queue times then just go to a system where you pick all five rolls in your preferable order. And no, support would not 'always' be last, it would be mid-top-supp-bot-jng in my case. And I'm sure I'm not alone with that.
At 15:20 they finally admit the real reason behind all this shit. Riot wants to punish solo players, so everyone will be less toxic.
I have a few comments.
