[Matchmaking Clarity] Show Number of Players in Queue

Deep Terror Nami·3/24/2015, 11:47:12 AM·6 votes·966 views

Simple; I'd like to see the number of players in any given Matchmaking Queue, before I even join.

I can't say how often this has been proposed, but I'd like to propose it again. When I played games like Halo and Call of Duty, it always shows how many people are looking for a particular type of match. This helped me decide which mode I'd join, if one mode only had a couple hundred people in it while another had tens of thousands.

Sure, the "Average Queue Time" slightly serves that purpose, but only after you join it, and also is not very accurate since matches can last 20 minutes, or an hour and 20. I believe simply glancing at each mode and seeing the actual popularity of the mode would be both useful and just a nice form of clarity.

I used my highly specialized skill in MS Paint to give two examples below;

21 Comments

NuSix33/24/2015, 11:49:08 AM3 votes

Sure, but let's get rid of blind normals first.

Hugh Drectum3/24/2015, 7:02:21 PM3 votes

Id vote, but honestly I dont see a NO button... YOu seam slightly into yourself and your idea too much.

Makes no difference. You join Q and get a match. This isnt COD or console gaming where some games only have like 1000 players online.

This is extra weight in the download and packets...why fix shit that aint broken?

Don't put things in that are bound to cause issues when RIOT still has to PATCH a PATCH they just PATCHED 3 hours before. Its not difficult to check your work, load, triple check...then UPLOAD. However the riot staff still cant figure it out.

phirestarter3/24/2015, 3:30:06 PM2 votes

Wow this makes so much sense, I can't wait for the first shill "we can't cuz people might abuse" reply post.

The Vilemaw Icon3/24/2015, 6:59:34 PM1 votes

What would be the point? Wouldn't the most used queues just get even richer while the lesser used queues get poorer? Seems this would pretty quickly get us to a 1 queue system, which would be awful.