Hey Riot you know what is this?
Is a screenshot that I just took. Look at the date of my last match played and now look at the date in the bottom left corner. In my last 3 years I always tried to play at least 1 game every day, unless I just couldn't do it (like during vacation/during finals). And guess what it made me change my mind? Your nice pr bs messages about SoloQ.
At the moment we don't have a ranked queue where competitive player can play. And no Dynamique queue is NOT a competitive queue. Is just a different Normal draft queue. Old soloQ at least tried to put everyone on the same level (fuck duo-queue). Everyone was in the same enviroment: a lone player trying to coordinate with other 4 strangers to win. Now? if you are the lone player your fate is a lot more tied to the performance of your premade. What can I do as a solo ADC vs a trio ADC-supp-jung? Nothing but afk farm and hope my trio is better. Even if this don't impact the overall climb (at worse it will just take more games to reach your true rank) this is NOT fun gameplay.
Also our rank at the end of the season was earned and meant something. Now? WHO THE FUCK CARES. A random silver guy can just get boosted to diamond by playing with friends. No, I'm not saying that thousand of bronze-silvers are flooding the diamond division. But the simple fact that is possible, in a completely legal and Riot approved way (not like the old elo-boosting), it devalue the ranking system prestige. At least give us a party rank and a solo rank so we can know the true rating.
I get it now you guys at Riot are like: "well, who the fuck cares, you're just a single guys". Well the problem is: I am your core consumer. I play every day, I spend money on the game, I play ranked, I watch LCS (at least watched, this season is... well I prefer to waste my time in other way other than watching a 2-1 at 20:00 min laneswap), I browse about LoL , etc. and i can't even force myself to play anymore. If you still think it's not a big deal you can go ask Blizzard how good is doing WoW thanks to their changes marketed towards the caual gamers. Remember you aren't the only developer with a good game (or moba).
That said cya I have a lock to level on a vanilla private server.