Riot Focuses Too Much on Quick Queue Times

Frosted Tips·3/25/2019, 12:58:36 AM·6 votes·2,930 views

I see this tossed around a lot, but this year and last year it has been so prevalent. Riot has been trying to reduce queue times so it doesn't suck to wait so long for a game, but game quality has dropped significantly from that.

One, remove auto fill or atleast delay it until queue times are averaging 5 minutes or longer in your current elo.

Two, just take a little longer queues in general so the teams are more evenly matched. I feel like the game has gotten to a point where it just finds people way too far apart from each other skill wise and that ruins the game.

Does anybody else feel this way and would like these changes.

Honestly, doubling my 1:30 queue for a better quality game would 100% be worth it.

6 Comments

Jamaree3/25/2019, 1:22:42 AM2 votes

It wasn't 1:30 queue time for lower elos back before autofill after we got role selection, was around 3 to 5 minutes and got up to several hours in Challenger.

manolis2013/26/2019, 1:37:40 PM1 votes

i actually wait 16 minutes for a match on silver 2 in the morning wut...