that is all.
I am amazed that there are no mechanisms to prevent this sort of thing from happening. Why not disable whispering between friends if they are on opposite teams? Or just eliminate summoner names until post-game? Why is elo boosting essentially unpunished?
Drive By Max1 votesThis thing is a very rare thing to happen from what I understand.
BluePolarizer1 votesqueue sniping is a thing, where you play at 3 AM in higher elos and queue at the same time.
Deep Terror Nami1 votesIt's incredibly rare for two specific people to meet through random matchmaking. Do you know how many people play this game? If someone told you they knew the other guy, most likely they were fucking with you.
BluePolarizer1 votesif this is so rare, then there's no problem in implementing mechanisms in the case that this does happen. If it never occurs, then its not an issue. If it does occur, then there will be mechanisms in place. This has also occured before with stream sniping where you watch the stream of an opponent if they're a famous streamer and looking at their minimap or seeing how they think or Athene's infamous elo boosting by getting trios in ranked through the same mechanism.
Deep Terror Nami1 votesThe problem is that it's a waste of time...
BluePolarizer1 votesSo you're perfectly fine with losing due to queue sniping, which is a bannable offense that Athene (a famous streamer after whom the Holy Grail was named) was permabanned for, but only because he was famous.
Deep Terror Nami1 votesIt's funny that you even consider it a problem.
Edit: Just to clarify, if someone is throwing intentionally, that is a bannable offense on its own. There is no need to label it something else.
SmokedAlmonds1 votesSo you're perfectly fine with losing due to queue sniping, which is a bannable offense that Athene (a famous streamer after whom the Holy Grail was named) was permabanned for.
I think its an extremely rare thing that is not worth taking away from other projects to do. So in that sense, yes I am perfectly fine with it. Especially since I know that that there is almost no chance I ever run into this.
BluePolarizer1 votesdo you ever wonder how sometimes it feels like feeders are in every single one of your games? Maybe it's not a coincidence. Maybe it's smurfs that are feeding to boost their friends.
SmokedAlmonds1 votesdo you ever wonder how sometimes it feels like feeders are in every single one of your games? Maybe it's not a coincidence. Maybe it's smurfs that are feeding to boost their friends.
Do you ever wonder if that is something you invented in your mind to direct blame for your losses?
I can't say I consider many players I run into feeders to begin with so even if some percentage of them were doing it to boost someone on the other team it would still be insignificant to me. I don't concern my self with other peoples play, its a waste of energy.
SmokedAlmonds1 votesif this is so rare, then there's no problem in implementing mechanisms in the case that this does happen.
How often a problem occurs is an extremely important factor in where to spend resources, if not the most important factor.
Why would you want riot to spend time and money on something that is at worst extremely rare?
Resources are not infinite, doing this would take away from something else.
BluePolarizer1 votesso where are the resources for the bug-fix and player management section going? From what I see, it is toxic players and... not much else. Well known bugs such as the Master Yi double strike crit bug have been identified yet never fixed. Other than toxic players, other bannable offenses such as bug exploits and elo boosting are almost entirely unenforced.
SmokedAlmonds1 votesso where are the resources for the bug-fix and player management section going? From what I see, it is toxic players and... not much else. Well known bugs such as the Master Yi double strike crit bug have been identified yet never fixed. Other than toxic players, other bannable offenses such as bug exploits and elo boosting are almost entirely unenforced.
Literally everything that gets changed...New champs, reworks, skins, teambuilder, leaverbuster, intentional feeder detection, bug fixes, etc etc.
You obviously don't agree with their allocation of resources but that doesn't make them wrong. People get banned for exploits and ELO boosting all the time. There was just a huge ban wave for boosters as well.