The lower priority queue
Hello, for the first time i'm posting something on this forum, but i've been playing league of legend since s1. Why ? Because i think it is something really important i need to talk about, the lower priority queue.
For those who don't know what it is, if you quit a match and don't come back, they punish you by putting you in a lower priority queue for the next 5 match, which means they'll make you wait 5 minutes (each) the first time you afk, 10 minutes (each) the second time, and so on. Another important thing to know is if you cancel your queue, it restart the time you have to wait in the queue.
As a good friend of riot and that tried to understand most of their choices, even the ones that most of my friends were against, for this one, i don't have any choice but to say I disagree this, because it makes more bad the day of not only the rage quitting guys, but also the bad luck guys and the company. I'll explain why.
Let's start with me as an example. I'm not the best, neither the worst in the community, but i never rage quit. Recently, the upload of riot didn't worked out and it missed something ( the d3dx9_39.dll). Because of that, i can get in a queue, but instead of showing the download screen, A windows error came up saying this dll is missing. I needed to look at the internet and it happened to a lot of players.
So, because of riot not telling me something is missing until the loading screen and because i tried twice (my first attempt to repair this failed), so i lost 1h15 waiting the queue to go off. Not only that, but i really NEED to wait the queue to go off, staying in front of my screen, scrolling 9gag and facebook (thanks to them). My friend have to wait this too when they are playing with me. And that is besides the 2 lost i got (one in my placement games -__-) and the fact that i'm not really happy when the match finally starts, which means if my team is toxic, the mute button is now my friend instead of trying to make them chill and do teamwork.
Now, let's do some maths. Let's say (and i'm kind) that 10% of the people that play league of legends will be afk without this being his fault (internet or electricity shut down, the update having a problem, bugsplat, some computer problem, a tornado coming to his house, etc.). They are now 27 millions people that play it daily (and that doesn't count the people that plays it, like, each 3 days, like me). So 2.7 millions people will wait this 5 minutes without being their fault. its 13.5 million minutes ( or 225 000 hours, or 9375 days, or 25 years and 8 months) of innocent people waiting for having fun combined. And this is for only one time. The second time will be double.
Don't do that. It'll cost the fun of the players and the wallet of the company beacause of the player quitting the game, and seriously, i dont think the real ''rage quitting guy'' cares about this. He want them to lose. In his mind, they don't deserve it, and he wants more to scroll some facebook for 25 minutes total than staying another minute with this ''retard'' team. Emotions aren't logic, and if a guy ''rage quit'', the word ''rage'' means that he'll probably not think with logic at all.
In conclusion, i don't know which is the best way to avoid people from rage quitting, but this one is deffinitly not a good one In my opinion. Please approuve and change this rule, or change my mind by having a better argument.
Koulam
