For those of you who don’t know, Riot has officially made the decision to discontinue position ranks.
To SapMagic and everyone on the team, I know you guys worked tirelessly trying to make this a success, and I appreciate that, even if it didn’t work out. Thank you for taking a chance in an attempt to make the game better. I look forward to seeing what else you’ve got in store for us.
Best of luck!
Noble intentions, but not the greatest implementation from what I hear. What few I played, I didn’t experience any major issues of the trolls, but I might’ve just not played enough. At least positional matchmaking worked out better, even if the ranks didn’t.
May future endeavors fare better than this one.
Agree 100%, and I appreciate that they can admit it was a mistake overall if I can see the intent and appreciate the effort. It was a good try, but just too freaking wonky. I also have two mains per role. I worked really hard being good at all positions, my rank should reflect the effort I put in, not just favor one tricks.
I wish they'd just admit failure more often than not when it comes to champion/item/rune balance, but that's probably a whole other team that handles that. Fuck those guys btw.
I mean, props to sapmagic. He saw that it wasn't working out, he pulled it down, even though he put countless hours into it
It takes some balls to make a change It takes even more to admit when you've made a mistake And it takes the most to actually do something about the mistake made.
So in all honesty, thanks for not making this another Dynamic Queue for an entire season.
Yeah is true, good try. At least they didn't fear to go for something new or better. Every good invention starts with a dream, courage, and balls. They sure got the latter cause we flamed them to death.
Spending time and resources on r%%%%%ness similar to DynamicQ... "good effort" indeed.
They're learning slowly (or just observing more players leaving).
Maybe in 5 years stupid stuff like these will get shutdown in the brainstorming meeting. If League survives till then, that is.
Personally I enjoyed the new system
It was not a good effort. It was designed to mask the population problem League has been facing since the infamous Season 8 was launched. Less people are playing this game, so Auto-fill is rampant. They also wanted to hold new/casual player's hands by putting the auto-filled players against lower skilled players. So it was a strategic and deceptive strategy from Riot.
Good. You have no idea how annoying it was to have someone literally troll because they got auto filled and didn't have to play serious because they know they lose literally nothing.
I ain't got plans to come back to league but it's good to see they ain't gonna stick yall with this bullshit for the next year
Pathetic attempt.
At least they admited that they could not do it and it was a mistake unlike many others.
I was actually really enjoying positional ranking.
The real problem is and always has been the hidden MMR system. Why have two systems, one which is invisible and unintuitive on top of one which leads you to think you are the ranking your in, but in actuality, you may be getting paired against completely different tiers of players. If it hadn't been for this, and for the facts that DUO Q ruins matchmaking as well, then this system would actually work in some manner. However, to do so, you would have to do away with auto-fill entirely.
It was a good swing to make autofill less impactful, but it didn't land. It builds some confidence that they'll take a step back and admit it.
aww man i wanted to have fun on euw :(
oh well. got a link to it?
We did not need that.
I don't understand why people think this is a good thing.
The system itself is fine if everyone has the sportmanship and respect towards players. (but as you know our community, I don't have to say it loud)
This system is being abused by trolls, suicidals, random smurfs.
The idea could work if autofill wasn't a thing.
Good to know they won't repeat the mistake they made in 2016 with Flex Queue.
I don't understand why people think this was bad, its was AMAZING news when it was announced. If someone trolls then report, really no difference from before the system. What they need to do is fix ranked. Its a bad system if you have to hard carry everything up to plat before you can get a decent team you don't have to babysit.
Upvoted for positivity.
Honestly, it and it's implementation were spot on and we should bring it back (:
That's what happens when you do something in right way. Instead of screaming around sending feedback with proper proof and you success.
Anyways, gj fellas!
Like genuine question, why couldn't we all test it ? why was it only exclusive for NA and korea ? what was the point ?
THE COMMUNITY TO RIOT: we will suffer and endure the bs but we will never give up on having a FUN BALANCED GAME!
Over all was a better outcome than I ever thought it would have. Even though I had probably the worst experience I have ever had playing league these past few months over the years I have played it, I am someone happy with how they are going forward with what changes they did try and keep.
Now when you look at changes since S8 ... nothing changed.
