@Riot on Low Priority Queue - Prisoner’s island is a truly awful experience for the “prisoners”
From: http://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/2017/01/ask-riot-banished-to-prisoners-island/
>Question - Why doesn’t Riot queue negative players with negative players? What’s wrong with the “prisoners island” concept?
Answer >Reason Two: Prisoner’s island is a truly awful experience for the “prisoners” in more ways than one
>If we ship unsportsmanlike players to their own queue, they’d face a swath of issues that basically make League miserable by default. The queue would face higher rates of negativity in game, sure — but the diminished pool of players would also result in terrible queue times and lopsided matchmaking. It’d be emotionally satisfying to say they deserve it, but it’s squarely against our values of putting player experience first.
>Beyond that, building and operating a service for a prisoner’s island would suck Rioters and resources from efforts we truly believe in, like improving Instant Feedback, intentional feeding detection, and reworking legacy systems like Honor.
My questions to this are these:
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Why do we care about how the people in Low Priority Queue feel? These people did not care when other people's games were being ruined. Most of them likely ignored and mocked the players who were contesting their actions. Guess who didn't care when the normal players had to deal with this? Riot and the trolls doing these actions. And why should they? You ban them, they make a new account for free and play on!
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About terrible queue times - If someone is trolling in my game, they could waste up to 70+ minutes of my time. I would much rather wait an extra 10 minutes for a troll or AFK free game then have to deal with a troll for over an hour. I don't think I'm alone here either.
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About lopsided matchmaking - You know what's really lopsided? When you have one team who has no trolls and another team with 1 or more trolls, turning it into a 5v4 and sometimes a 6v4 if they are feeding. Is that fair? As for the LPQ guys, again, they didn't care about ruining games for non-toxic players, why should we care about ruining games for them?
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About resources and efforts - Once you make a one-time only script where players who are continuously reported are put into LPQ, I don't know what else you really have to do. You aren't changing the map, you aren't changing any champs and at most you are just adding a few popups letting people know how many more games they need to play to leave LPQ. Also wanted to note that I was looking through old Riot posts and I saw posts from 3 years ago about fixing the honor system. Does it really take this long? Riot is that short on staffing that it takes 3 years to fix something?
Sadly as usual, the responses on a lot of behavior related matters are disappointing from Riot.