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Strawpoll soloQ vs DynamicQ (Already 80.000 votes

Catchdown·3/23/2016, 2:42:03 PM·246 votes·10,166 views
Straw Poll

DynamicQ vs SoloQ

Vote here: http://strawpoll.me/7157281

Since riot is assuming the majority of the players are fine with dynamicQ, let's give them something to think about. I have never seen some survey from them, which to me, is a total excuse to cancel soloQ.

The only reason solo queue hasn't been released yet is because they know that nobody in their right mind would pick that shitty new queue over solo queue. They should just release solo queue already and admit that dynamic queue was just a stupid idea. It seems to me riot is proud of dynamicQ but they destroy the entire essence of compatitive play for the amateur players.

Anyways, WE care about distinquishing ourselfs from team players, since soloQ players are relatively more skilled than players that only do teams. Right now, soloq only players have a harder time to climb than soloq (2-4 man premade) people do. Why the living F do you want to group those together for the same, fking rewards?

If we go on like this, a platinum 1 SOLOQ ONLY player will be more skilled than a diamond 2 dynamicQ user.. Nice system, boys.

I quote socratis here;

"Hey guys, we know there are a lot of players who are really passionate about solo queue. We're not trying to be dishonest or dodge this topic. Radio silence on this the past couple months has been painful, we know. We hoped to come out with a direct answer to this, but working through the problems players are facing on live now (consistency around position select, queue times and matchmaking for high MMR) is taking longer than we initially expected. We did a bad job at managing expectations around this and deserve the heat we're getting around that.

That being said, solo queue does not directly address either of these problems and could suffer from the exact same problems. We'll be honest: there's definitely a world in which solo queue doesn't return, but we'd rather keep it on the table as we work through these issues before making a final decision."

360 downvotes already. Nice.

320 Comments

Keevalroy3/23/2016, 3:34:02 PM54 votes

This needs spread everywhere so it's public. No more of this random "data" Riot apparently collected and refuses to share. Riot, swallow the pride, accept this was a bad idea, and return solo queue. Yes, Dynamic will fail because of this, but understand that everyone saw this coming...including you, which is why you don't want it back - you're afraid that The Future of League isn't what you want it to be.

That being said, last I checked, your company manifesto still states that you're aspiring to be the most player-focused company in the games industry. Either that should have been edited a long time ago, or you could go back to that mentality. This isn't singling your team out either; this applies to multiple departments, but that's another topic entirely.

Edit: Huh, Dynamic is still showing a 37% approval. How about that? It's like it's looked down upon or something, almost as if we told you so right from the beginning...well, along with everything else that happened that we called (and you ignored) before the season started.

Mama Soraka3/23/2016, 5:15:01 PM23 votes

Isn't strawpoll vulnerable to being stacked one side or the other by any proxy site ever? I seem to remember that being a thing a while back and I doubt its changed much.

Edit: And keep in mind the scale of this game as well. over 7 million accounts play during peak hours and ~27 million more play sometime during the day and finally ~70 million more play monthly. You'd need millions of unique votes to get even a drop in the bucket here.

Numbers: http://www.riotgames.com/our-games