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I Quit Leagues After 7 Years Today - And Riot You FINALLY Drove Me Away With Your Rigged Matchmaking

TP4MyBungHolio·7/12/2018, 2:48:13 AM·5 votes·1,183 views

I'm done with Leagues after 7 years, because the game is artificially rigged. The program controlling match making is designed to balance wins to losses which is totally unfair to better players. After almost 6000 games on Aram, I was 3000 and 2900. All they way from 100 to 90, wins and losses were always balanced within 100 of each other. What this meant was after a good win streak a brutal losing streak would come 100% of the time. The longer the win steak, the longer the losing streak.

And stop with this ELO explanation (ie. as your ELO rises, you get put with against better players). This may be true, but playing unbalanced games with all good players against you and all noobs on your Team (to guarantee the outcome) is unfair to your most loyal and best players. Yes, playing better players makes you better, but playing close games against equal comps does just as much I would argue and it would be more fun in the process. How is getting your ass handed to you fun? Riot could change this to always put you with players of equal skill, but won't, because in the end, the best players would rise to the top and have a lot more wins than losses and Riot apparently can't have that so they artificially suppress you from winning with clearly contrived matchmaking.

In the end, better players should have better average wins over losses just like in any sport, but of course this is not a sport, it's a business that we are all trapped by. I came to the conclusion that their match making program does with a great deal of accuracy make sure the even best Diamond player loses by matching them with noobs WHEN RIOT WANTS YOU TO LOSE. Even with a pre-made team, Riot has analytics to know your Team's tendencies with comps and map preferences and thus know what kinds of Teams can beat your likely comp and layout. If the outcome does not turn out the way Riot predicted (and wanted), the next game will be even more unbalanced. I figure about .03% or so can a good player win when Riot (i.e. the computer program) does not want you to. Most of this is from AFK's or people letting their little brother play for them.

I'm sick and tired mostly of the garbage losing streaks Riot throws at you that you know starting the game there is no way you're winning. And again, VERY few games are competitive and close (which would be more fun), but Riot clearly does not want this. They want blowouts apparently more than enjoyable close games. What this means (and should not be overlooked) that even the wins are not fun when you crush another Team. Riot must know this, but clearly after 7 years, IT IS CLEAR THAT THEY DO NOT CARE.

I do not play Leagues for the "experience" of playing the game, I play to win, but I'd accept balance if placed against players of equal skill and likely even comps, because it is fun and I'd win a fair share of those games, but with Riot, EVERYONE is just trapped in their control to keep things balanced no matter what. I believe more and more players will realize this and quit.

So Riot, you finally did it, you drove me away - nice going noobs.

#WalkAway

5 Comments

Jamaree7/12/2018, 2:53:27 AM3 votes

You know, even with "perfect" matching making, you would still have around a 50% win rate, hell, if matchmaking was indeed perfect, you would have a 50% win rate flat. Also people would still at times do obscenely well or obscenely poorly right?

PrismalDawn7/12/2018, 3:00:47 AM2 votes

Have you ever taken a statistics class? Or probability.

Hexs Fortune7/12/2018, 3:03:41 AM2 votes

The hard truth is:

Riot understands people can't play forever and eventually have to move on to other things in life.

They'll look at your seven years of gameplay as a job well done, while focusing on ensuring their new player rate is still healthy.

TP4MyBungHolio2/10/2019, 5:54:30 PM2 votes

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I'm done with Leagues after 7 years, because the game is artificially rigged. The program controlling match making is designed to balance wins to losses which is totally unfair to better players. After almost 6000 games on Aram, I was 3000 and 2900. All they way from 100 to 90, wins and losses were always balanced within 100 of each other. What this meant was after a good win streak a brutal losing streak would come 100% of the time. The longer the win steak, the longer the losing streak.

And stop with this ELO explanation (ie. as your ELO rises, you get put with against better players). This may be true, but playing unbalanced games with all good players against you and all noobs on your Team (to guarantee the outcome) is unfair to your most loyal and best players. Yes, playing better players makes you better, but playing close games against equal comps does just as much I would argue and it would be more fun in the process. How is getting your ass handed to you fun? Riot could change this to always put you with players of equal skill, but won't, because in the end, the best players would rise to the top and have a lot more wins than losses and Riot apparently can't have that so they artificially suppress you from winning with clearly contrived matchmaking.

In the end, better players should have better average wins over losses just like in any sport, but of course this is not a sport, it's a business that we are all trapped by. I came to the conclusion that their match making program does with a great deal of accuracy make sure the even best Diamond player loses by matching them with noobs WHEN RIOT WANTS YOU TO LOSE. Even with a pre-made team, Riot has analytics to know your Team's tendencies with comps and map preferences and thus know what kinds of Teams can beat your likely comp and layout. If the outcome does not turn out the way Riot predicted (and wanted), the next game will be even more unbalanced. I figure about .03% or so can a good player win when Riot (i.e. the computer program) does not want you to. Most of this is from AFK's or people letting their little brother play for them.

I'm sick and tired mostly of the garbage losing streaks Riot throws at you that you know starting the game there is no way you're winning. And again, VERY few games are competitive and close (which would be more fun), but Riot clearly does not want this. They want blowouts apparently more than enjoyable close games. What this means (and should not be overlooked) that even the wins are not fun when you crush another Team. Riot must know this, but clearly after 7 years, IT IS CLEAR THAT THEY DO NOT CARE.

I do not play Leagues for the "experience" of playing the game, I play to win, but I'd accept balance if placed against players of equal skill and likely even comps, because it is fun and I'd win a fair share of those games, but with Riot, EVERYONE is just trapped in their control to keep things balanced no matter what. I believe more and more players will realize this and quit.

So Riot, you finally did it, you drove me away - nice going noobs.

#WalkAway

It's now been over 6 months since I quit playing Leagues cold turkey and I have to say a few things:

1). I don't miss it at all 2). Now and then I think about playing 3). I recall the brutal fashion wins and especially losses are fixed 4). I don't play and am happy I didn't

The lesson here for everyone is to not care about wins and losses and be a mindless gamer, because this is what Riot wants. Don't be a noob and believe their BS story that it is your "skill" that gets you the win.

The issue here is Riot is punishing better players so noobs can win - I get your business model perfectly AND thus won't be back and predict others will wake up and eventually, Leagues will die.

Daze Clover7/12/2018, 3:02:04 AM1 votes

If you are planning to play another game, play Fornite. You will either like it or hate it.