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Queue Dodging

IcyPeppers·1/24/2015, 7:56:06 PM·2 votes·865 views

I'm tired of queue dodging to avoid playing with a kid I met 60 seconds ago who refuses to communicate and cooperate with the rest of the team. The time it takes to ban and pick is plenty enough to sort things out if everyone is on the same page. But sometimes you get that kid who's last pick and says "mid", and then says nothing else. When mid gets picked and it's this kids turn, he opts to play mid anyway. So now here's me, realizing this game is going to be toxic and not fun, growing a pair and dodging the queue so I don't have to live through the grief that the game would have been.

Now, I'm not toxic, I've never been suspended or banned, I honor good enemies, and I play positions that are A) needed, then B) that I prefer, in that order. I'm not selfish when it comes to finding my role on a team, so why do I have to either:

  1. Live with people who are selfish. Most people on LOL are great and awesome, why can't I play more games with them?
  2. Be penalized for avoiding the selfish people and for trying to find a game I will enjoy.

I think there should be a system in place to avoid penalizing players for trying to avoid a toxic scenario. If your account has never been suspended, if you have a low or non-existent rate of being reported, and you rarely dodge queues, then you should be given something like 2 immunity dodges a day. I hate playing with people who can't play as team, and the last pick kid who plays what they want no matter what shouldn't be the one who wins in this situation. I get punished for dodging while he/she gets to go queue up again and get what they want. How is that fair?

I know this sentiment is not new. I only want to perpetuate this opinion in the hopes that Riot sees that it's a real issue and one that the players want to see a solution for.

2 Comments

67chrome1/24/2015, 9:20:28 PM1 votes

So now here's me, realizing this game is going to be toxic and not fun, growing a pair and dodging the queue

Pretty sure you're using that phrase wrong.

Most phrases involving being super-masculine and having large gentles are used to indicate being tough enough to deal with anything thrown at you. Especially in regards to dicey social situations that need some solid, patriarchal leadership.

Running away and wasting everyone's time in the process is the exact opposite of that.

And if you really do see it as growing a pair, that's kind of an indication you should be able to take whatever punishment Riot gives you for dodging like a boss.

I think there should be a system in place to avoid penalizing players for trying to avoid a toxic scenario.

There is, it's the report system. If a toxic player gets reported often enough, bad things happen to their account.

then you should be given something like 2 immunity dodges a day.

2 a day is absurd.

Allowing free dodges could easily stretch the process of getting into a game on for 4~5 tries or even worse. 2 free dodges for you a day means a collective **18 **free queue dodges for the other 9 players. Out of the first 20 games a day you queue, all 20 could be dodged before the game starts.

And that's assuming everyone you play against is going to sit down for the same time session. I'd wager most of LoL's players probably only have time for ~3 games a day, or around 90 minutes. Which means that, if the queue and champion selection for each game takes 4.5 minutes, they've spent 90 minutes staring at the queue screen.

Besides being an atrocious strategy for maintaining there player base, you'd also pretty much obliterate any chance of people using the pre-game chat capabilities to do things like set up strategies and coordinate with one-another, seeing as more often than not that would probably be a total waste of effort.

Anyways - queue dodging is actually really, really annoying and your wasting a lot of peoples' time by doing so. That's why there's punishments in place for it.