I can think of no arguement for why solo queue is a bad thing.

warpenguin555··3 votes·380 views

"But the flamers and trolls" You can find those guys everywhere, not just solo queue.

"But its a team game. Matching up with Solo Players isnt what the game is about." If that was the case Riot would have force Ranked to be 5v5 only.

"But Riot said Dynamic queue is the future" Yep. 20 minute wait times, getting flamed by the 4 man you got matched with, and because you are with said 4 man premade, you are now against much higher ranked players, even though thats not what you signed up for. Not to mention that the high elo queue times are ridiculous. Totally the future.

"But the queue times will suck" They already do. It will be spread across 2 queues but the only people who will see a significant queue time change will be the 4 man groups.

"New champ select is cool doe" Ok I'll give you that one. I wish fill didnt mean support and you could actually get your primary when you have support as your secondary, but whatever.

"Playing with friends always makes the game better" Umm No. There is a reason I dont always like to play with my friends. I get stuck in a role i dont want to because they main all the other roles (or they just have a fetish of sending me top lane) and tilt too easy. And those are just my reasons. There are more people with more reasons out there than just mine.

"Nobody will play it because they are already too far in DQ this year" While this might be true for some people who have already got gold or are close to it, there are some people (myself included) who are waiting on Solo queue to even play ranked. I hated the idea on paper and in video games, if i hate the idea there is next to no chance im going to play it. SQ wont reset your rank in DQ either so you arent really restarting. And even if it did, you know where most players would go after this season is done? SQ thats where.

"Just suck it up and play it" "You just have no friends and cant play Dynamic because of it" "You just hate change" "You are a sheep" "You wont play it because you know you cant climb" "You are just a (insert random swearing here)" Those last 6 arent even arguments. Thats just being a dick

11 Comments

MisterHealYoGirl2 votes

They're working on it, dude.

WoonStruck1 votes

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They're working on it, dude.

The problem is that Lyte is probably the one they put in charge of it, and he's going to delay again and again for as long as he can find any reasonable excuse. We all know Riot doesn't admonish delays or excuses.

MisterHealYoGirl3 votes

Lyte works on social systems; player feedback and community involvement. This is a coding thing. Do you think that Riot plots exclusively to make you sad?

WoonStruck1 votes

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Lyte works on social systems; player feedback and community involvement. This is a coding thing. Do you think that Riot plots exclusively to make you sad?

Why wouldn't Lyte have influence over Solo Queue if it impacts his pet project and he argues that it makes players toxic?

They've already delayed Solo Queue for months. Now we're getting another Soon(tm). Solo Queue was promised to be up and running a week or so after the feed back from Dynamic Queue. There hasn't even been a mention of anything related to Solo Queue on the PBE.

Lyte is in charge of player experience as well, IIRC. There's no reason to think he wouldn't be involved in Solo Queue, and he, personally, has every reason in the world to not want its release.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

Lyte is taking personal time off atm. It's not delayed just to spite you.

WoonStruck1 votes

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Lyte is taking personal time off atm. It's not delayed just to spite you.

And the work on Solo Queue is still over a month and a half away. Why does that exclude him from being a part of it?

I honestly have no personal investment in Solo Queue. I just see how broken the current system is in a lot of cases, and its just another area Riot's gone wrong recently. However, this is one that they can VERY easily fix, yet they haven't given any news on it, despite its release already being so absurdly late, outside of them saying "soon".

MisterHealYoGirl1 votes

Again, you seem to be under the impression that they've finished it and are just delaying it to make you suffer. IF THEY HAVEN'T RELEASED IT, IT'S NOT DONE.

WoonStruck1 votes

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Again, you seem to be under the impression that they've finished it and are just delaying it to make you suffer. IF THEY HAVEN'T RELEASED IT, IT'S NOT DONE.

No, my point is that they said it would be released ages ago and they still haven't given a lick of insight into any of it. Rioters drop hits about every single other upcoming thing.

For Solo Queue its absolute silence outside of delays, and that is extremely suspect, and has ended up being negative PR every time that tactic is employed. Magma Chamber, Sandbox, etc.

MisterHealYoGirl1 votes

If I had to guess, I would say it's because the team that works on stuff like queues and other logistical issues aren't very player -facing, and because to arrive on the boards with anything other than good news is to be eviscerated by people like you. They are absolutely working on it, and it will absolutely be pushed to live as soon as it's done.

ModAttysu The Poro1 votes

Auto locking was my biggest issue tbh, that and the fact that you couldn't queue with 3/4 people in a party and if you didn't wanna do TT, you couldn't queue ranked at all with your friends. I understand that Soloqueuers hate going against premades, but honestly I've never seen that big of an advantage if your team is willing to cooperate (which happens a lot more often here than soloq in my opinion)

Rito, give them solo queue already. Some people will stick to DQ, some will go to Soloq, just like Teambuilder when some would do draft/blind and some would do TB.

Oh wait. You got rid of TB. >_>

mogonk1 votes

They said it was a few weeks away. Then months later they....said it was a few weeks away.

If you think they're not going to say the exact same thing in another few months, you don't know Riot.

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