Matchmaking Based on 'Potential for Income' Variable

blade15x·9/1/2019, 8:55:35 AM·1 votes·2,448 views

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.

11 Comments

DuskDaUmbreon9/1/2019, 9:09:07 AM6 votes

Hi, I spent about $200 in two days.

It doesn't increase your chances of winning. I'm living proof of that.

TrulyBland9/1/2019, 9:37:30 AM4 votes

Who better to keep happy and laughing and having fun and wanting to play more?

Everybody, because a f2p game that only caters to paying customers (which usually make up a pretty small fraction of players) sooner or later dies out, which makes queuetimes skyrocket, especially if you want paying customers to have a larger chance to win. That in turn lowers popularity of the game even among those who were paying customers which lowers your income.

There's greedy and there's stupid greedy. Whatever you want to beileve about Riot, I don't think there's much evidence to find that they're stupid greedy.

Jhins Girlfriend9/1/2019, 11:11:29 AM2 votes

If this was true I'd probably be Diamond by now.

Posui Gart9/1/2019, 10:09:14 AM1 votes

Imagine this: I am a player who enjoys playing LoL and donates several times a year I want my friend, a Dota player, to switch to LoL He tries the game, matchmaking forces him to lose becaise he didn't spend money on it yet, he is disappointed and leaves LoL Or He tries the game, matchmaking does not force him to lose, he finds LoL a better game and eventually starts spending money in it too

Also, people don't really like ez stomps, they prefer hard games that they win because of their skill. Otherwise everyone would play vs bots