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I want an answer to why did Riot change the inactivity system in Master/Challenger?

OnlyGragasOnlyGG·10/9/2017, 11:08:03 AM·2 votes·424 views

Somewhere during season 6 they changed the old "play 1 game in 10 days" to this new cancer "play 10 games in 10 days". Like wtf? Suddenly you are expected to play 10 times more.

Competition is not an explanation since match quality so low in the highest tiers that most games are decided by the first ten minutes. I wouldn't call that competition... So why the heck do you have to make people play this much when there's nothing to even play?

The huge game amount is easily avoided by just starting ranked in autumn so that you only need to play the minimun games you need to reach the best tiers. This is another reason why the decay system shouldn't be so harsh when it's possible to ignore it this way. It's just slapping in the face those players who prefer to play a big amount of games early, but then still have to go through more pointless games if they want the rewards.

I self had played 800 games in May already, and felt like it's enough. But haha, NO! I have to play 30*6= 180 extra games BECAUSE APPARENTLY I HADN'T BEEN ACTIVE ENOUGH. OR IS IT SO THAT NOTHING MATTERS BEFORE THE "REAL CHALLENGERS" COME PLAY THEIR 100 GAMES IN OCTOBER AND IM JUST A FAKE CHALLENGER???

Literally lost motivation half year ago with this shitt decay system. Who was that genius Rioter who thought it would be a good idea that increases competition? It won't as long as the option to start ranked in last week exists. Come self play every day a trash game. Haa, but you are silver so you don't have to. Actually you don't need to play at all even if you reach Gold, there's no decay. ROFL

Edit: I have ruined my SoloQ LP gains so can't really AFK and let LP drop anymore if I want to try to stay in Challenger. Big game amount does that. It's very easy to climb during the first 200 games, in Flex I got to Chall with 50 wins. Nothing promotes playing ranked in early season in the highest tiers at the moment.

Summing up some errors that makes playing a lot of ranked miserable in my opinion (unless you like playing that much):

  • Too long seasons. On average the bronze-gold community hardly plays any matches...
  • Too merciless inactivity settings (for top tiers)
  • Queue times!!! I must have been sitting 10000 minutes totally in queue (wtf 7 days???)
  • Season's end rank is the only thing that counts

3 Comments

Pokemonred20010/9/2017, 1:08:11 PM3 votes

I'm pretty sure they changed Master/Challenger inactivity because there were people in Master and Challenger who were getting one account up there, playing one game a week to keep it there, and then making new smurfs in lower elos to get better queue times.

AirKingNeo10/9/2017, 3:28:20 PM1 votes

Stop them from smurfing

teobeast10/16/2017, 8:02:42 AM1 votes

idk i dont understand this decay system literally i played 12 ranked games in the last 6/7 days and the days keep counting every day i open my account riot says u have certain number of days before your lp starts to decay ??? like i played 12 games in the last 6 days and now i have only 6 days left to play idk how many ranked games.This is bs (d5 btw).