Confused on time.......

Horrorling·8/13/2014, 3:20:24 AM·1 votes·659 views

First off, let me recognize I have never posted anything on the LoL board before. I have done quite a bit of reading though....

Nonetheless enjoyable, I'm reading boards while I wait for games. On average, Ranked, Searching For Match, I tend to get an approximate wait time of around 1:00 give or take. A game to pop every minute or so! That would be incredible! Granted, I'm not the greatest player to play LoL because I'm a casual player. Bronze IV, less than special, so please take this into consideration.

Why.....please why, is my actual time to get my first game to pop, not go through without someone bailing, around 4-5 minutes? If, and correct me if I am wrong, the Approx wait time is what I would assume is "average wait time," there seems to be an error. At first reflection, I thought this might just be a coincidence, as the average is just that, the average. And while it may be rising, the average is rising slower than the actual. But then, it became more often than not. This could no longer be coincidence. When 80 - 90% of your games are over 300% later to pop than approximated, there must be something wrong with the calculation?

If I am the only one who is experiencing this, I apologize and I will take it up with technical support but, something tells me I cannot be. I cannot be the only one who has to wait (on the absolute longest ever) 10 min, when my average time is 1:00 for a game to pop. If this has been written about before then please I offer ignorance as my excuse.

H.

2 Comments

Angry Monster8/13/2014, 8:45:57 AM1 votes

Important information you are missing. Liek you are having a problem at this hour? Just tonight? Time fram matters here.

That said 5 minutes is not that big of a deal. I have had Qs take 15 minutes with out people declining and i am only in gold. This is rare though adn 2 to 5 is average.

So if the issue is only tonight. This is cause its after midnight PST. Most people are not on at this hour. 2nd its patch night so the late night crowd is not logging on since they would be booted earlier than they want to be,.

Horrorling8/13/2014, 8:01:33 PM1 votes

No I wouldn't have posted if it only occurred tonight. This has been ongoing for months. My point is, if the approximate time is 1 min then why am I waiting 5 to 10? Should the approximate time be 5 minutes or closer to that number then?

It can be at any point in the day. Like I said when 80-90% of games take longer than approximated isn't there something wrong?