Pros create Nostalrius?
For those of you who dont know, a lot of Pros who are sick to death of the Dynamic Queue system are now playing on an in-house soloQ realm.
https://twitter.com/LemonNation/status/738598523113902082
The first thing that came to my mind was the private WoW server Nostalrius. Nostalrius was a private vanilla WoW server. It was a server where all the expansions that people hated were stripped away in favor of the original WoW. It became insanely popular as a very large percentage of the community hated the new expansions. They flocked to Nostalrius to get a taste of the game they fell in love with. The game before the developers ruined it. The game before Blizzard refused to listen to its player base. The server was massively popular with over 800,000 accounts registered and 150,000 active accounts.
What drew my mind to to Nostalrius is that I think this is going to be the LoL mirror of it. Pros hate the way the game is now so they're going to make their own private 'server' to get back to how things were. For those who don't know, Blizzard allowed Nostalrius to exist for some time before finally shutting it down. It created a massive backlash in the community.
Nostalrius was a sign that WoW was dying and that the changes Blizzard was making were killing it faster. I believe that this LoL mirror of it is a good sign of that. Whether you like or dislike DynamicQ, you can't deny how large the backlash has been. I have never seen such a massive divide in the LoL community over one subject. Riot refuses to acknowledge that a large percentage of the community HATES DynamicQ. It's not just across one platform. The boards, reddit, youtube, twitter, twitch, all of them speak out against it upon deaf ears. One thing I have noticed about Riot over the years is that they refuse to admit they may have made a mistake. Or to undo changes what-so-ever. I hate to tell you Riot but you don't hold the power, the players do. If you continue to refuse to listen to us, we will leave. Most importantly:
You don't tell us how we're supposed to have fun
Sorry this got a little rant-y, but the parallels to the Nostalrius server and the message behind it really stand out to me. I honestly think this might be the beginning of the end if Riot refuses to listen.
