Matchmaking Based on 'Potential for Income' Variable
Think about it this way. riot and tencent are capitalist companies, which means their main goal, their bottom line, is to make money. Every game of ranked summoner's rift, 5 people win, 5 people lose. Now, if you're in the business of making money, who better to win the games? Who better to keep happy and laughing and having fun and wanting to play more? People that have spent money in the past and have a greater potential to spend money in the future? Or those who don't spend any money on the game and are therefore much more unlikely to spend money in the future? If you're a capitalist company, and riot and tencent are, then they would be literally throwing millions of dollars away if they didn't have a 'potential to spend money' variable that dictates matchmaking. You think the CEO's will throw money away for integrity? This is tencent we're talking about. They have developed an app game in China that gives you 'social credits'. AKA, brainwashing their people into obeying them and punishing those who rebel. They are pure evil, they are not 'above' this. This is simple economic theory and they would be stupid not to do it.