@Riot Just listen for a second. (Wall of text)

Said this in another post but it bears repeating here.

Riot.

All this hatred you have been getting recently. It's aimed AT YOU. At your company. Not at this game. We like the game, that's why we hate it when you fuck it up. We understand, at least the rational and reasonable among us (and that can be me too sometimes, shut up I am!) that game balance is never going to be perfect, hell, this is an asymmetric strategy game, we wouldn't WANT it to be perfect. We understand that servers are going to break sometimes. We even can empathize with the fact that as passionate employees you take a lot of pride in your designs and you get very possessive about League.

But here's the thing Riot.

League ISN'T your game. You administer it. You maintenance it and so help us all, when you feel like it you completely fucking break it, but it isn't yours. It's ours. Because you need US to PLAY IT. And when you treat a good 10% of your player base like they don't matter, it isn't League we get angry at, it's YOU.

Why do we hate Dynamic Queue so damn much. Why do we rage at you over it? Because we had a way of playing the game that went far beyond individual champion balance, beyond any meta and one day, completely without warning without any explanation you just said "Nope, you're not allowed to do this any more. Now, you have to do it this way instead."

And we quite reasonably asked you "well why not? This is how I like to play league of legends."

And you replied "Well, you shouldn't because that's not how WE want you to do it any more. We want you to get all your little friends together and then play together"

And then we replied "No, fuck that, this is what I do TO GET AWAY FROM OTHER PEOPLE"

And you clapped your hands over your ears and went "LA LA LA DYNAMIC QUEUE IS LOVED OR AT LEAST NOT HATED BY THE MAJORITY OF THE COMMUNITY, WHY CAN'T YOU JUST ACCEPT IT! LALALALALA!".

So that's why we don't like Dynamic Queue and why we will never like dynamic queue. Oh sure, maybe there will come a day when all those who remember what solo queue was have moved on to bigger and better things and only those who don't know any better will remain. Maybe then you will have your utopia.

But see, this is a pattern Riot.

Remember the Juggernaut update? Oh yeah, THAT fucking thing. Do you remember the fucking worst season finals in LOL's short history? Oh, I do! At the time, was anyone really asking for a Garen or Darius or Mordekaiser update? I know what I thought about it, being as you had just gutted the fucking shit out of Jarvan so I was forced to Garen lest my Elo completely tank, but then, HEY, can't play Garen anymore! Not for a solid month!

That entire update was so laughably broken and, again, reasonable people understand WHY it was laughably broken. Because in one hour of public game play, you get 10x more games then you could in a month of testing. We GET that, we do, but the thing is... We don't spend hundreds of dollars on skins and shit to be your FUCKING BETA TESTERS RIOT! And Mordekaiser. Holy shit did you ever drop the fucking ball on that guy. He went through so many constant nerfs before he even came off the perma ban list.

How many Morde mains just straight up quit the game right then and there Riot? Why did they quit? Because they just played Morde and because of a very obviously shitty decision that you made, you basically said "Nope, you're not allowed to Morde anymore".

And then in preseason. Not 3 months later, you did exactly the same fucking thing with ALL ADCs! You just suddenly decided that all ADCs should be completely over powered. So what happened? Adc mid, Adc top, Adc Jungle. EVERYBODY ADC. Now in mid season you've done it again with the mages, like... I mean... Who was asking for this?!

This seems to be your way of doing things. You just break EVERYTHING and then congratulate yourselves on doing such a good job at sweeping up the mess.

And so we come back to Dynamic Queue.

Remember what happened to all those Morde mains who never came back because you so completely and totally broken their favorite thing?

Well there are a HELL of a lot more Solo Queue players who are very VERY angry about dynamic queue replacing the only game mode we ever wanted with something so laughably inferior in every way that mattered to us.

So here's my suggestion.

Stop breaking the game every time you do anything.

You have ways of testing new things that don't need to involve completely breaking everything. Remember that Gankplank event? Remember how you snuck in those brand new items by putting them into a casual game mode to test them out? That was a really good and sneaky way of doing things. Conversely, when you updated ALL the mages and ALL of their items and ALL of the ways those worked together so that mid laners basically just had to learn a completely new game... That was BAD. Don't do it that way.

Either make ONE major change at a time. Add ONE new item. ONE new champion. ONE rework. Or make lots of little changes, number tweaks, cost adjustments. When you do everything at once, it just becomes bullshit. We like change, change is good, change is fresh and new and exciting. But we don't like bullshit being dumped in our laps time and time again. When you radically over buff 5 champions at a time, what even is the point? They just all get banned immediately. There's no strategy to banning the 5 obviously fucking broken champions and letting through the 7 nearly completely bullshit ones that we can kind of deal with a little bit.

We like a game that fucking works. If you constantly break it with bullshit changes then it doesn't work.

You get 1 of those a year, in preseason and you must have it all sorted by the time you start ranked again, otherwise we get angry. We get very angry.

TL:DR for fuck sakes bring back Solo Queue.