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Riot, forgot about the popularity research, do you know what is "adverse selection"?

Heimerchina·7/20/2015, 3:03:59 PM·16 votes·1,069 views

I played this game since S1, and i am currently a diamond player on solo queue in US server, China server (sector 5) and Taiwan server.

I tell you what, 5 years ago I tried 1-2 SR game and I don't really like it, then I played TT.

"Wow, it is more fun."

So I only play TT until lv30. But then I found there is no solo ranked on TT. Sadly, I was forced to practice SR (I prefer competitive play environment).

After so many years, I can handle SR and achieved diamond. However, if there is ever a solo queue for 3s, I dont even wanna play SR anymore.

Maybe you think it is right as it retained the player pool in SR. Yet many players who prefer TT or dominion have left the game - they just cant tolerate SR, and the bots in alternate maps.

So you have already loss probably 1/4 of the players (they just switch to another game), and then you do the stupid research - which is known as "adverse selection".

What is the major part of the current player pool? Silver and gold players in SR.

What are characteristics for most of them (not all)? They have "ok" to "very good" reflection, they can last hit, they can combo, but most of them are brainless that they only know how to kill. They can do 30/10/0 but lose a match. They dont know when to teamfight, they don't know how to push, they prefer tower dive rather then destroy the turret. Whenever the game loss, it is teammate's fault.

What is their favourate game mode? URF!

So you do the research on the current player pool and comment "not enough players for rank in dominion"?!

Try a "featured rank mode" for solo TT, solo + team Dominion, and a featured normal URF for a month. After a month, the game mode closed until next year, but the ranking is kept in player profile. My prediction is: low rank SR players drop by half, teambuilder and normal SR (blind and draft pick) do not have enough player and need to wait so long. Players increased in TT and dominion (because they wanna practice and achieve high rank). Bots switch to normal SR.

Rank solo SR - longer wait time in low rank, but no effect in high rank URF - heaven for brainless players (player pool from normal SR) Rank solo TT - attract players with good laning skill and tactics (player pool increased) Rank solo dominion - attract players with good tactics but bad laning skill (player pool increased)

5 Comments

Heimerchina7/20/2015, 3:47:14 PM4 votes

If a map has no solo rank, it will end up have little players in normal. The reason is that the map has no chance to be in competitive play, so no one even bother practice it.

I still remember when I played 1000+ games in TT s1, and so proud to tell I am good at Heimerdinger in a MSN group, all of them replied "no rank, no BS". Unfortunately, I dont have another 2 teammates for TT team rank, thus I need to practice in SR (the map I dont like) and finally I achieved diamond. And most of the players I know in s1 have already left the game - because they played 100+ ranked SR and cannot even get "Gold"for 2-3 season.

Riot, you should worry about DOTA2/HON/Smite etc split your player pool, not your own game mode. You are just like a fast food shop selling one type of burger, hoping to retain its "best selling burger" title - sorry, Burger King just openned next to you, followed by MCDonalds.

Rebonack7/21/2015, 3:47:30 PM2 votes

Riot should have, at the very least, replaced Dominion's Blind and Draft queues with a single Blind Draft queue a year ago. That would have helped with the map's health considerably. All things considered, Dominion is actually balanced pretty well right now. All of the major outliers have gotten reigned in through targeted nerfs or the peeps over on Rift finally realizing that people like Kass and Kha were broken as balls.

I would support this.

Make this a featured mode for the whole of the off-season. Then they wouldn't even be pulling players from Riot's precious SR Ranked.

ShaftyMegee7/21/2015, 4:27:14 AM1 votes

Riot probably wants to make SR the main game mode because they promote it so much. Other than that Idk why they wouldn't make a solo QUE TT

VAPASS7/22/2015, 12:27:21 AM1 votes

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