Something has to change with Riot's matchmaking

GigglesO·Jan 28, 2015·5 votes·694 views

I've been in 3 promos today, 2 of which were my own. Every time I get into promo I get someone that either intentionally feeds or trolls. Something needs to happen to these players that are intentionally losing games. There also needs to be something done about people that buy their accounts.

If you buy your account you should have literally everything that was purchased removed from it, including its ranked status.

Just look at this graph, does it look like this guy earned his "diamond" rank last season?

8 Comments

technosavageJan 28, 20153 votes

no one cares bro. we all have to deal with trolls, just get over it and play the next game. that's all you can really do and if they really are a troll with enough reports they will get banned. or you can just add them to your block list and you'll never play with them again.

GigglesOJan 28, 20151 votes

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no one cares bro. we all have to deal with trolls, just get over it and play the next game. that's all you can really do and if they really are a troll with enough reports they will get banned. or you can just add them to your block list and you'll never play with them again.

I have 1500 players on my block list, and I actually do get blocked players in a lot of my games. All blocking someone does is make it so they can't contact you.

Silents429Jan 28, 20151 votes

Don't know why the downvotes, he Is right, nothing you can do about it, everyone deals with A-holes in online games and all you can do is play and move on.

GigglesOJan 28, 20151 votes

No one has anything to say? Not even a Rioter?

Damorion215Jan 28, 20151 votes

I'm about to try playing in the day time, but I'm not even so sure that will work. I don't have any friends who live near me who know how to play the game, the "friends" I got on my friends list, most of them have quit the game and what few friends that are on don't even invite me to any of their games. So basically, my entire LoL life has been utter shit. Other than that, I really don't know what else to do and the extra lag that Riot gave to us back in Patch 4.20 hasn't helped out either.

GigglesOJan 28, 20151 votes

That is the other problem, it has become the normal, less and less players are reporting it.

Summonerrr 1Jan 28, 20151 votes

The only thing Riot cares about now is things that make them money, aka LCSBIGPLAYS, else they would've nerfed zed and wouldn't have unworked Cass. I've been on the rework matchmaking train since before S3, and even when many other games are literal YEARS ahead of Riot as far as matchmaking goes, they're more worried about "HURR LET'S REWORK POOPY BECAUSE SHE BROKE OUR WORLDS VIBE". Also, tribunal and toxicity mitigation fits nicely into the category of things they stopped caring about.

mvargusJan 28, 20151 votes

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The only thing Riot cares about now is things that make them money, aka LCSBIGPLAYS, else they would've nerfed zed and wouldn't have unworked Cass. I've been on the rework matchmaking train since before S3, and even when many other games are literal YEARS ahead of Riot as far as matchmaking goes, they're more worried about "HURR LET'S REWORK POOPY BECAUSE SHE BROKE OUR WORLDS VIBE". Also, tribunal and toxicity mitigation fits nicely into the category of things they stopped caring about.

If this is true than Riot is playing with a lit fuse to some dynamite. Their whole fan base is the people who currently play the game or who have played in the past. There isn't a lot of opportunity to turn a non-player into a fan, despite the "screamcasters" who will shout loudly and incoherently for LCSBIGPLAYS. What will happen is one of the other games will start stealing fanbase due to a better community and matchmaking and within just 1-2 years LoL will be effectively dead. I saw it happen multiple times over the years in the MMO realms, and I'm sure it will happen here.

But from what I've seen Riot doesn't have anyone with the experience to realize just how poor a long term decision they have made by allowing the situation to develop the way it has.