Let's work to keep the new players!
I know that I'm not the only one to post about the miserable new player experience, since there are people who understand the game very well that smurf in low levels and dominate the new players. I'm almost to 30 now and I do have a main that is 30, but I was hoping to have a secondary account. It is sometimes nice to have something that I can actually rank up with my friends, instead of dropping them into high ELO games where they don't even have fun. Don't worry though, I play roles that I am not the greatest at (Not looking to stomp on others in ranked). Maybe play support with my friend as ADC.
Either way, I just got out of a game where a person on my team was feeding and the person that was killing him was just tearing him down. Telling him to never expect to be good, because the moment he started playing this game he had already made a mistake. It was pretty brutal and I definitely reported him afterwards. Talking to him after the game, he told me that he gets reported for being bad most of the time and gets yelled at in almost every game... ONE step to improving the new player experience is a simple incentive! If you link your secondary account to your primary, you will have the opportunity of purchasing 2x or 3x XP boosts for ~2-3x the cost of a regular XP boost. This will get you to 30 faster and give an entirely different way to separate players that are learning the game compared to platinum/diamond smurfs who rage at people for not understanding every characters mechanics. "Does this person have a linked account?" If yes, they will get matched with other linked account people. If no, they will get matched with other new people. Also, clarifying that linking an account should be similar to linking an email account. Nothing crosses over, but it is known that you have those two accounts and you can recover the accounts through a linked account if they are hacked or anything. So the previous ELO should not transfer. (Just wanted to make sure everyone is on the same page 100%).
This probably sounds like I am searching for some sort of a handout, but seriously, it will still limit the new players to having to go through hundreds of games before level 30 and it will make the experienced players get to level 30 in?? I haven't done the math yet. ~110 per win x 4 (regular + 3x) = 440 > 40000/440 = Still 90 games, but this isn't accounting for the stacking per win boosts with per day boosts. If you stacked boosts, you could get there in roughly 20-30 games. Is this an awful idea? I don't believe it will encourage smurf accounts, because you will still have to pay 3x or more for the highest xp boosts since it will be more packed in to (1 day or 10 wins) for example.
Before I finish, I just want to point out that most of the anger and toxicity that is learned in league by new players is the anger that is shown by someone that is grinding to 30 and wants to maximize their wins which will maximize their xp gains.. If you can separate those people from the new players, it will probably create a more positive environment for the new players. Just an idea.
TL;DR: If Riot offered incentives to linking smurf accounts to main accounts, it would improve the games for people who aren't smurfing. Let's face it, high ELO players aren't looking to play against new players anyways.
This game above isn't mine! Just an example!!
