Yet another Normal Draft Removal topic => Isn't FlexQ the root of problem?
When DynaQ was released, despite being promised, SoloQ was removed from game. The reasoning was Riot was afraid how queue times would be affected with two separated queues. Despite we were told SoloQ players are minority and most people prefer DynaQ, obviously that small fraction of SoloQers was supposed to endanger the precious child that Dynaq was. Now we learnt that we are not that small minority when Riot decided to reconsider it and will bring SoloQ back next season.
Now, according to this:
In the regions where Normal Draft was disabled, it had very low participation. Our concern going into the launch of Flex is that having many similar queue options will result in a lot of low quality experiences rather than a few good quality ones.
They will remove Normal Draft for the sole purpose of promoting FlexQ. Afraid FlexQ will be unpopular, they artifically force players to play it. And history repeats itself.
- Riot removes a queue in order to stream its "low population" into DynaQ
- Riot puts argument that Normal Draft had low population, yet it seems this low population will matter for FexQ
- Riot assumes most of the low population will move to FlexQ and not ARAM or Normal Blind just for lolz
- Half posts on front of Boards is people being concerned I suppose next step is that at the end of Season 7 they will say they are confident with all three queues working perfectly at once... Until few weeks later they'll (out of blue without discussion in advance) announce they are removing ARAM because it suddenly has low population.
Also, note that FlexQ will have special initial IP bonus for the players there. Is anyone actually taking this seriously? Second year now we are going to be forced to eat this shit just because Riot is so desperately trying to hold DynaQ alive. Which queue will they try to gut next just because DynaQ is their precious child and they will make their entire game burn just so that it works? If people so prefer FlexQ, why does it need such special treatment to be held alive? I've no problem If someone wants to play premade Ranked as long as others are not forced to it. It's another play style and I feel happy for these that find their fun here. However imagine If they removed Normal Blind because of its "low population" in order to make Normal Draft more prefered choice, because it's more prefered, despite having problems with survival. Would that seem logical? Well, it seems only DynaQ has the right to supress other modes to promote itself.
Finally, it's funny how Riot was trying to "learn from their mistakes" and be "more transparent" and now they are removing entire queue out of blue, saying it clear and decided, without discussion in advance.
So, I am speaking to all those of you who are going to play FlexQ in second-world servers seriously to climb - have fun having your experience ruined by first-timers and experimentators because these people now have no other place to go. It's possible SoloQ will be stroke, too.