For the love of god please get rid of this horrible thing. I will deal with long queue times. I'm just so tired of someone on my team being auto-filled which usually leads to a domino effect of them being the weakest link since they're forced into a role they aren't comfortable with, which usually snowballs games into being stomps.
Removal is too far, but it should indeed be optional.
The problem is the players and not the system. You are supposed to know how to play any role, that's how it always was until they made us able to queue with 2 roles.
would you prefer what we had before autofill which was pick order?
I, for one, would gladly take 10+ minute queue times if I was absolutely guaranteed my role.
There's no reason to punish literally everyone just because nobody wants to play support. Negative reinforcement does not equate to positive results.
You want fair queues -- guarantee people their roles, and give some kind of incentive to the people who play the lesser-filled ones. Key fragments or something. Bonus honor. Extra mission rewards. Blue essence. There's a myriad of rewards this game has to offer to incentivize certain behaviors.
Instead, we say "nah, fuck you -- nobody's playing support right now so I guess fuck you AND your team for this game, since you're nearly guaranteed to be shit at whatever role we auto-fill you into, and we're putting 4 other players at a disadvantage now."
This is what WoW does. Not that WoW is some kind of glamorous role-model poster child for games -- but they at least do this one thing right. You get extra gold and extra items if you queue up in the less popular positions.
I'll tell you what WoW doesn't do -- they don't make the resto druid the tank for the dungeon because they couldn't find a tank.
All I know is whenever I get jungle and no one will switch i just exit out of league and play something else.
Autofill feels even more horrible if you main support, because it means the player on your team that gets autofilled will be on a more difficult impactful role than support (lets face it, playing support decently is much easier than any other lane+ everyone is used to it cause of autofill)
remove role select. hurpderp here we go again
Then ask them to lane switch if they suck at their role.
