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Why Dynamic Queue is a GOOD thing.

Aerith Lilly·4/15/2016, 8:14:56 PM·3 votes·537 views

Let's get the key point out of the way.

THIS GAME IS NOT ABOUT WINNING ALL THE TIME. This game is about learning, and having fun and experiencing something new.

There should be feelings of joy and defeat, anger and happiness. You win some you lose some but you live to fight another day.

Like any sports, PLAY FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME. Winning happens and so does losing.

I've been seeing a lot of anger/frustration towards dynamic queue. Most people seem to be complaining that they get roflstomped by 4 man premades.

I want you to think about two different scenarios.

A: When I play league of legends by myself, I feel like I'm in a high pressure situation even in normal games. I get frustrated a lot more, it's harder to communicate and i tend to have far less fun.

B: When I play with my friends. We ALL have more fun. We experiment more, we laugh, we don't get so stressed out over losses. And if we do, and theirs choice words thrown around, its between friends. We understand each other personalities and we leave our differences on the fields of justice. (This is something I learned from playing basketball. No matter the beef or anger or animocity you have ON the court. it STAYS on the court)

I Think riot is trying to accomplish this. When I play with my friends they don't call me racist things, I have more fun and ultimately enjoy the game more.

I know the system is not perfect, but league is a TEAM game not a SOLO game.

I encourage you to play with another friend. Then get more friends to play with.

I promise you, you'll find yourself happier and enjoy your games more.

9 Comments

Slythion4/15/2016, 8:27:24 PM3 votes

THIS GAME IS NOT ABOUT WINNING ALL THE TIME. This game is about learning, and having fun and experiencing something new.

Those things (especially the learning part) is to obtain a win. I personally like winning, and find it fun to win. So ya, the game is about winning if you find winning fun (just don't be a douche in order to win)

Like any sports, PLAY FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME. Winning happens and so does losing.

The problem is, Riot wants to make League a sport without abandoning those who casual play. You love the game, but again, winning makes it a lot easier to enjoy the game. When you lose in a sport, you aim to get better and win next time. It may be part of the game but that doesn't mean you just role over and accept a defeat if you think it was preventable

A: When I play league of legends by myself, I feel like I'm in a high pressure situation even in normal games. I get frustrated a lot more, it's harder to communicate and i tend to have far less fun.

That's a personal preference. I love playing Solo Q and working with new people. I like adapting and changing playstyles to better fit the team, as well as meeting new players every game.

B: When I play with my friends. We ALL have more fun. We experiment more, we laugh, we don't get so stressed out over losses. And if we do, and theirs choice words thrown around, its between friends. We understand each other personalities and we leave our differences on the fields of justice. (This is something I learned from playing basketball. No matter the beef or anger or animocity you have ON the court. it STAYS on the court)

Another personal preference. While I do enjoy playing with friends occasionally, I only really do so when I don't care about winning or improving. With friends, I feel like it's a lot more stressful trying to do well in front of friends, especially if we have different strategies on how to win. It just doesn't work out for me, and so I only play with friends if I'm relaxing and want to enjoy a casual game.

Basically, you are entitled to your opinion. I have nothing wrong with DQ's Goal of uniting friends and creating a better team game environment, but it skews ranked up and is biased against solo players. I just wanted to point out that all of your reasoning was either flawed or simply a personal preference you are trying to impose on others, which simply isn't fair.

Defended4/15/2016, 8:35:24 PM2 votes

''THIS GAME IS NOT ABOUT WINNING ALL THE TIME''

it's not about winning? Are you a fucking idiot. Go die

Jbels4/15/2016, 8:37:41 PM1 votes

I dont really enjoy having to play with and against pre mades every game? Like, one or two of three things happen every single time recently. Either the premade on my team does ok but every time I fuck up in the slightest I have to feel like 3-4 people are judging me, and probably talking about it with each other in comms, which I'm just not comfortable with. Or the premade I'm with is toxic as fuck and will all unconditionally report me when I don't play exactly like they want me to. OR the premade I go against is so far above the Elo of my team that we just get outright destroyed, and that's with or without me being in a premade.

I feel like Solo players are basically being told to fuck off, go find friends to play with or stop playing, because you're just going to be put in difficult situation after difficult situation

Sneakyy XD4/15/2016, 8:40:17 PM1 votes

You can like dynamic queue all you want and no one will try to stop you. It still doesn't justify the removal of team builder and solo queue.