Basically it boils down to two very large issues:
- The purpose of ranked:
Ranked Games were to evaluate a player's individual skill in SQ. If you wanted to try out as a team, they offered 5-man ranked and you were graded completely separate than from solo ranked. Imo, this was a completely fair system, seeing as how you could still bring a 2nd player with you (it didn't completely jack up the system) and the 3-4 man premades really didn't have an issue with it. Besides, that's a very small selection of the community anyways.
With the change to DQ, and it's important to understand that Dynamic Queue solely means that you can queue with a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5-man premades and have it count towards your individual ranked score (doesn't that just sound wrong to you?), it completely changed the meaning of ranked. Ranked has minimal representation of your personal skill in this season, and has a very large representation of the skill of your friends. To me, that shouldn't be what ranked is about at all.
Now some argue that DQ promotes a more team-orientated mindset for league. While this may be true for the 3 or 4-man premades, my question is this: What popular sports allow you play with a fraction of the team?
I base this question off of the "Riot Plz" Blog in which they stated they wanted League to become viewed as more of a traditional sport and not some video game. I 100% applaud this ideal, but DQ was not the answer. SQ provided both pure individual skill representation and team skill representation, both fairly accurate. DQ meddled these two together and now rankings mean very little to say the least, completely ruining the purpose of ranked imo.
- Trade-offs
At the core, Riot basically did this:
They took a significant portion of power from Solo Players (who had no say in the matter) and gave it to the small 3-4man premade part of the community. Not only was this an issue that area, but it created issues. Riot made a large portion of the communities contributions in ranked nearly obsolete, and for what? So that a small portion of the league community could have more fun in ranked? I mean sure, if you play the game with friends it's a great deal for you isn't it? But think about the much greater cost that Solo Players were forced to pay for such a silly gain for other players.
Conclusion:
The intentions of DQ was pure. It was a good idea in theory, but has clearly flopped and left a lot of players feeling unsatisfied and useless (rightfully so). In my opinion, those who agree with DQ are either ignorant or just lack sympathy for those that it clearly hurts. I do not mean these as insults but simply as my version of the truth. Hopefully I've allowed for yourself and any others that read this understand the struggle that DQ has forced players through for quite frankly, a lackluster payback.
As for:
I never said it was the solo player's fault, I was just stating a flaw in the system that does not allow for both DQ and SQ to cooexist.
I believe you misunderstand, I did not mean to call you out for blaming Solo Players but was trying to state that the punishment for implementing DQ (and not SQ) has fallen on the Solo Player population's shoulders. My mistake for not clarifying that well enough, I do agree with you though that DQ and SQ can not exist together, it would split the community too much and wait times would increase wayyy too much for both systems.
and for:
We play ranked to have a sense of challenge and true accomplishment.
I think I've stated this enough but I'll say it again. How do you think solo players feel about being placed in matches where player's, both enemy and their own teammates, have advantages that they don't have? I feel as though that saps away the "challenge" and "true accomplishment" when you win a game knowing it's because your premade was better than theirs.
and for:
There has to be something that Riot can do, and I'm sure that if any compromise is met it would be what they did to higher mmr ques, limit the party size to 3.
They did not implement DQ without knowing what it would do to solo players. They've had months to figure out how to help solo players (even while they were making DQ) and when they said in the round table that they have no clue what to do yet, there doesn't seem much possibility for a solution. If they are going to reduce the max premades to 3, think about the 5-mans that get screwed over. It would be much better to just cut out the 3/4-man teams and allow 5-mans to have their ranked back, don't you think?
