Why haven't Riot shut down ranked queues?

For Ashe·11/14/2014, 9:00:56 PM·1 votes·916 views

I doubt they are planning to compensate in any way for all the defeated games induced by BOTRK exploiters. So why are they just leaving the ranked queues open until they someday find a way to patch it? Is it because the 2014 season has ended recently and there's relatively less value to ranked games than it was before 11/11? I have no idea why they would just say that they are working on a long-term solution to the exploit and not immediately take measures to prevent further loss. Permabanning the IP of the exploiter within 12 hrs is just being passively reactive. They should go further and focus on forestalling any attempts to exploit the glitch.

6 Comments

u mid i feed11/14/2014, 9:02:34 PM1 votes

They should instead, disable the item 3153 item and its active.

Possta11/14/2014, 9:36:07 PM1 votes

its not a bug, it's an exploit. You don't need to actually buy botrk to use it; it's a hack of the game's code that allows you to infinitely use the botrk active

Legendari11/14/2014, 9:58:20 PM1 votes

Well, if they disable ranked entirely, or disable the item (if it's even the item that is bugged, which I'm not convinced it is), they'd potentially be letting the entire playerbase know about the exploit and possibly other, less obvious exploits that might be out there. Not everyone looks at the server status page or the forums, which are the only two places they've officially acknowledged the issue to my knowledge. Not everyone will encounter a player using the exploit.

If they leave ranked up, people are going to lose games due to the exploit, but the overall exposure to the community could be significantly less. They can continue deleting "redundant" threads about the exploit and basically just keep doing damage control until they figure out how to fix the problem and get something in place. People who have not been directly affected by the exploit will just go about playing like they always do, as if nothing ever happened.

From a PR standpoint, the 2nd option is probably more beneficial to them. Of course, this is just speculation... they may have entirely different reasons or want to put an entirely different spin on it (ie: leaving ranked up to catch more people who would use the exploit, which sounds great to players who want cheaters banned, but sounds pretty dumb from a business standpoint if you're talking about tempting your customers to break your ToS and then banning them).

Live2LetDie11/14/2014, 10:00:55 PM1 votes

It's actually an exploit that allows any active ability to be used unlimited, as in dfg, pots etc.. It needs to be fixed

Corgski11/14/2014, 10:19:31 PM1 votes

Because there are a ton more people who don't exploit than those that do. And those who do exploit will most likely be suspended or banned.