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Currently, pro gamers have a lot of downtime between League of Legends games due to having to queue up for a game after finishing a previous one. These queue t

Currently, pro gamers have a lot of downtime between League of Legends games due to having to queue up for a game after finishing a previous one. These queue times range anywhere from 10-25 minutes on average, during which here is literally nothing to do besides playing other games, like Hearthstone. I don't think Riot thought this one through. Instead what they should do is figure out a way to fix the queue times at the highest level, and this would honestly not even be a problem. At this point, they just appear overly controlling.

chc 13y ago
There really isn't a way to fix those queue times, though. When you have a small player pool (like you do on the far end of the skill curve), you have two choices: Accept long queue times or accept the likelihood of wildly unbalanced matches.
- jsnk 13y ago
  Gamers understand that Riot has no way to shorten the queue time dramatically, and that's ok. That's not the root of the problem. The root of the problem is Riot's attempt to prohibit players' behavior to the point where people would consider to be way too invasive and way out of the norm. With this event going forward, I just hope that the progamers get paid more for agreeing to this clause. This is pretty ridiculous.
byerley 13y ago
I suspect it's the opposite. The current trend was to play another game (Hearthstone in particular) and in some cases the streamer would actually keep playing Hearthstone during champ select/the beginning of the game - a really bad message to be sending your customers (especially with free-to-play games where someone spending money with a competitor means disposable income they can't spend on you). People who read the news stories might think it sounds controlling (but the number of people who read the story and get notably upset is very small compared to the people watching these streams). Seems like a calculated and rational choice by Riot.
- resu_nimda 13y ago
  but the number of people who read the story and get notably upset is very small compared to the people watching these streams I don't know about that...the player communities of "MOBA" games tend to be pretty stubborn, indignant, unruly, etc. It's definitely a weird little world of abrasive man-children (I've put many hours into DotA and HoN). I see this as exactly the kind of "oppression" that the pros (and thus their followers) would complain about and subvert until it gets reversed. From the reddit thread: QTpie on riot contract: "Riot can suck my dick" - QTPie stream 2013, while playing FF X Diamondprox after reading this: Good. Time to break some rules. opens Hearthstone
sanskritabelt 13y ago
" during which here is literally nothing to do besides playing other games" Read a book.

chc 13y ago

There really isn't a way to fix those queue times, though. When you have a small player pool (like you do on the far end of the skill curve), you have two choices: Accept long queue times or accept the likelihood of wildly unbalanced matches.

jsnk 13y ago
Gamers understand that Riot has no way to shorten the queue time dramatically, and that's ok. That's not the root of the problem. The root of the problem is Riot's attempt to prohibit players' behavior to the point where people would consider to be way too invasive and way out of the norm. With this event going forward, I just hope that the progamers get paid more for agreeing to this clause. This is pretty ridiculous.

byerley 13y ago

I suspect it's the opposite. The current trend was to play another game (Hearthstone in particular) and in some cases the streamer would actually keep playing Hearthstone during champ select/the beginning of the game - a really bad message to be sending your customers (especially with free-to-play games where someone spending money with a competitor means disposable income they can't spend on you). People who read the news stories might think it sounds controlling (but the number of people who read the story and get notably upset is very small compared to the people watching these streams). Seems like a calculated and rational choice by Riot.

resu_nimda 13y ago
but the number of people who read the story and get notably upset is very small compared to the people watching these streams I don't know about that...the player communities of "MOBA" games tend to be pretty stubborn, indignant, unruly, etc. It's definitely a weird little world of abrasive man-children (I've put many hours into DotA and HoN). I see this as exactly the kind of "oppression" that the pros (and thus their followers) would complain about and subvert until it gets reversed. From the reddit thread: QTpie on riot contract: "Riot can suck my dick" - QTPie stream 2013, while playing FF X Diamondprox after reading this: Good. Time to break some rules. opens Hearthstone

sanskritabelt 13y ago

" during which here is literally nothing to do besides playing other games" Read a book.