Login Control

PseudoDiarrhea··1 votes·320 views

Now I know this is something League has been doing for a long time (since the days of 'thereisnourflevel') however I feel it has come to a point where it is becoming an actual problem.

I'm talking of course about login control. And I'm not talking about queue's. I'm talking about the 'connection to pvp server has failed' messages that close your client. The general concept behind this is to cause a decent portion of players to rethink actually playing, and not attempt to login again. It 'weeds out' the players who only slightly wanted to play. Thus reducing total number of players, and reducing strain on the servers. A second attempt almost always remedies the error message, so I'd be hard-pressed to believe it's an actual glitch and not an intended feature. I understand why it is in place, but it seems underhanded and deceiving to the players.

Has anyone else noticed this? What are your thoughts on Riot doing something like this? ~Pseudo

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NuSix31 votes

Interesting theory. I've been wondering why all of a sudden I can't connect on my first attempt. I updated windows, checked windows IE settings (cause I never use it otherwise), checked firewall settings, tried turning firewall off, checked router settings and port-forwarding...etc.

TBH, I'm not one for conspiracy theories. This isn't too hard to believe, but wouldn't a simple queue where you wait in line to play the game accomplish the same thing?

FuntaC1 votes

You conspiracy theorist you :). I do like a good conspiracy theory though.

This is a Riot thing. Actually, it might be a thing that the developers of internet games share. There has always been, with every game, some needless trolling mechanic. For LoL, consider the game queue. There is no reason that it should take so long to find a match, nor force players to repeatedly click accept prior to the selection phase beginning, nor returning to queue due to a dodge. Diablo 2 had a terrific game making system, and that was 15 years ago.

Maybe you should start a thread asking people what they would like to see changed about getting into a game. You can call it "Unnecessary player burdens, just to get a game started." Personally, I would like game queues to show a large list of players in my queue, and give me the ability to deny any number of them from being on my team. Perfect solution to known baddies. Also, I would like to see win/loss % for game we have played together.

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