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See, your goal of adjusting matchmaking is good and all - but you seem to misunderstand something

Frontline Fury·3/1/2020, 6:01:47 PM·1 votes·2,119 views
/dev: Ranked and Matchmaking in 2020 - League of Legends

"Improve queue matchmaking quality without compromising queue time and availability."

See, this is what you don't seem to understand. Ranked queues SHOULDN'T be a queue you hop into when you're pressed for time and just want to get ingame. That's what the unranked queues should be for.

We don't WANT quick matchups. We want quality. It's worth waiting another 5, 10 minutes if it means the match in question is a quality matchup rather than the usual 3 minute queue coinflip.

Sometimes you have to give something up if you want something else. You can't both have quality AND quick queues, that's just not how it works with a playerbase that isn't online and queuing up 24/7.

Look, i get it. You saw Overwatch's success with the high pace, and the rapid fire big plays generate more hype in the tournaments. But League of Legends isn't Overwatch. League of Legends is at it's core a game about patience. It doesn't matter how much you change when you don't change the core gameplay itself.

12 Comments

Jng Account3/1/2020, 6:05:36 PM1 votes

What do you think that happens in few additional minutes? Either new player appears or, whats more likely, it widens mmr difference until there is actually another player for given role.

You ppl think that longer queues = better matches, which is not necessarily true.

Cdore3/1/2020, 7:03:36 PM1 votes

I miss the queue where everyone appeared in a lobby, and when you all were there and discussed your strats, you picked start queue. Felt way more healthy.

ZephyrDrake3/1/2020, 9:26:02 PM1 votes

I think you are the one who doesn't understand things. How many people you think have the time or patience to wait an extra 5, 10, 15 mins every single time? The longer the queue times the less people will play. The less people playing the more unbalanced the games will be regardless of how long it the queue times are. Which would then beg the question of why have the long queue times to begin with. Who in their right mind is going to wait up to 30 mins for a match? People in high elo complain about long queue times all the time. Don't come here and say "we don't want quick matches". The vast majority of people want to find games fast and not spend 30+ mins just waiting for a game to pop up.