TFT Games Going Too Long?

PenthouseMack·7/5/2019, 6:22:54 AM·4 votes·1,678 views

I feel like games are going too long. Games were lasting 20-25 minutes for me the first few days of live release. Now, as players are figuring things out, it is much more complicated to finish compositions and everyone has haphazard comps of maybe one or two tier 1 bonuses and MAYBE a random level 3 carry that they have items on, if they were able to get any. This is to be expected but it's making the game less fun for me due to a fairly limited number of champions.

Another side effect of this is the amount of players that are remaining. I've had several games where the game has went to the 6th stage with only 1-2 eliminated including a one-time occurrence where I entered the 6th stage with nobody eliminated. Games were close and, due to terrible compositions, games were barely being won by 1-2 characters causing HP loss to be incredibly low after rounds despite the increased damage from the later stages.

Games I am winning are going to 50 minutes easy now. Games I am simply top 3'ing are going 35-45 minutes depending. For me, this seems like much too long, however, the upside to this is that it means the game has RNG but it can be manipulated by skill causing games to go longer with better players involved.

Thoughts?

3 Comments

Woodakoodashooda7/5/2019, 7:35:07 AM3 votes

Game duration is fine the way it is. Players need time to make their choices regarding items, champions, purchases, and positioning in between each round. And the game itself seems like it was wholly intended to last about as long as a match on Summoner's Rift on average.

I've once had a match where me and two other players lasted all the way past Elder Dragon. When I checked the match duration, it had gone on for about 48 minutes. But that's a rare occurrence in my experience.

NTrumpWeTrust7/5/2019, 10:07:32 AM1 votes

Expect it to get even longer in ranked. With the top 4 gaining rating and the bottom 4 losing rating, it's going to be a popular strat to just stall as long as possible