So, Riot's response to Dynamic Queue: And My Response to Riot

> Yes, we moved the goalposts on what your rank means and it definitely doesn't measure your individual contribution as much as last season. That sucks for primarily solo players, and we want to have a way to measure your individual skill. We thought that could be a dedicated solo queue, but with more data we don't think it would be a good experience for either queue. So we want a different system to measure this that doesn't involve splitting the pool of players to match make with.

Then what the hell does ranked mean, Riot?

No, seriously. Before this season ranking was an infuriatingly broken experience, and this season has made it a whole lot worse.

people are pissed the pros are pissed, the higher elo players are pissed, the general community (including those who dont frequent the boards) are all pissed Riot.

your higher elo players are leaving and/or boosting with your busted system. Why? because they cant find a game where they are without running into all of CLG.

So then I ask again what is the point of ranked? It's a glorified normal queue that no longer requires individual skill or ability to adapt to other individuals and their playstyle. No, instead it's about who gets the premade with the smurf on their team. You should know by now, ranked games with 5 friends on Skype or Curse are significantly easier than ranked alone, and the chances of being carried even if you're terrible are doubled now, because you wont get into arguments or disagreements with your buddies, and if you're the solo player then you get to experience the toixicity and alienation of teammates not coioperating with you because they dont know you. and you still have the balls to never even mention an in-client voice chat as an option? You've taken a game about skill with some luck involved, and made it all about LUCK and some skill involved!! Seriously, i can feed 4 kills over, but because the rest of the team snowballs so quickly (and have communication that im not a part of) i can get carried to a victorythat is to be decided in the first 10 minutes.

Hey Riot, pull your head out of your ass for a second. We all know that Solo queue is the definitive way to measure the stats of solo players, you just dont want to implement it because you're afraid that nobody is going to play Dynamic Queue Times for ranked. and here's why.... IT'S STUPID. It's so dumb in fact, that in order to try and calm the shit storm you had to get Lyte to throw out some BS non-statistics Not even mentioning Solo queue to try and say "oh people dont want solo queue, they want dynamic queue"

It boggles the mind that a company could make one of the biggest games ever and then throw out so many awful decisions like this alienating the people who stuck by and gave you money. And it boggles the mind that so many people predicted it after Riot picked up Ghostcrawler, one of the people in charge when WoW started to decline. So you know what? to hell with it. Im uninstalling this game, and never recommending it to anyone else. Im done giving you my money.

I hope this game loses a LOT of players im talking about in the millions. and why is it? because maybe after Riot watches their ship they THEY set on fire burn, they're going to pull their heads out of their assess and actually make the game good.

When i started this season i really just wanted to get back to silver. Once i saw how broken dynamic queue was however, my opinion changed. i no longer cared about winning in ranked because i knew that my rank was worthless. and i realized something about the previous seasons. - even though they were infuriating to lose to that guy who instalocked in yasuo support and fed because the "team didnt get a knockup" Ranked felt REWARDING. it was an indescribable feeling to have worked so hard to get out of bronze and finally pull it off. I felt like i earned it. Now even if i make it out, even if i make it to silver and gold, the game is not FUN. there is no reward for playing solo; theres no incentive for it. So the fact that my games with a team of 5 directly impact my game with a team of randoms is ridiculous to say the least.

Say for instance i make it to gold solo, well Joe Schmoe gets 2 gold friends on their smurfs and uses them to carry him to gold. It was a bit of a problem before but thanks to dynamic queue you can have a whole party of smurfs. He gets the end of season skin with minimal effort say 2-3 weeks (from bronze 4), I pulled every one of my shoulder bone-length dreadlocks out one at a time. and took an entire season. There's no light at the end of the tunnel ive essentially wasted my time.

And this is just one of the majorthings that riot has done to piss off it's players 1: removal of the tribunal 2: removal of lore and then taking over a year to try and put it back (with still no explanation as to why these champs fight eachother) 3: Dynamic queue

I'm severely disappointed. that you just threw your main player-base to the wayside like that.