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We need two different queues, 1. Competitive & 2. Ranked

Coletrain1··3 votes·471 views

It's seems fairly obvious to me that the problem with League has always been that there are two different kinds of players being forced to play with each other in the same queue. The first type of player is the one interested in a solo-competitive experience with less emphasis on teamwork and more on individual skill. The second type of player is the one interested in a more in-depth competitive experience with the high level of coordination and teamwork that comes with voice communications.

I feel like classic solo-queue without voice chat would be perfect for the first type of player, while dynamic queue OR solo queue with voice chat would be perfect for the second type of player. Personally for the hypothetical "competitive" queue I'd rather see solo queue with voice chat, as I think it's pretty clear that at the higher levels of play dynamic queue times become way too long in combination with the new role selection feature.

I think it's clear now that there's no way to satisfy both these types of players with a single queue, so the question is would having 3 different queues (normals, ranked, and competitive) split the player base too much?

4 Comments

disregardable2 votes

They won't even implement two types of queues, do you really need to ask that question?

Coletrain11 votes

If they don't want to put voice chat in the game, then they should damn well make it easier to solo carry. With the changes to gameplay they're trying to make the game more teamwork orientated, and yet they still won't put voice chat in the game.

My point is they have made the game worse for both kinds of players. They are shooting themselves in the foot by trying to make the game more teamwork orientated without actually giving people the ability to talk to each other. So they need to either decide which kind of player they want to cater too, or they need to find a way to make two different queues viable.

Losing Patients1 votes

The people more interested in showing off individual skill in this team game are toxic to the community. They whine like crazy and blame their teammates for everything. Please, give us solo queue so I don't have any of these douche bags in my games.

Coletrain11 votes

I agree to a certain extent, but at the same time I personally feel that if the gameplay is going to be more teamwork orientated then you'd be hypocritical to simultaneously be against the implementation of voice chat in the game. In my experience I win way more games when I'm actually willing to communicate strategy via chat, but it's so incredibly tedious to be constantly typing through-out the game that it makes the game less fun.

I feel like it's a perfectly reasonable position to say that Riot should either make the game more snowbally and solo-carryable, or give us voice chat. There's too many people who want the game to be more teamwork orientated, yet then they contradict that by also saying they are against voice chat.

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