I think the new Nida splashes look great but it does feel like they gave her a new personality.
I watched the Dynamic Queue talk and although I found it refreshing to get at least SOME info, I feel like the engineers have way too much power. They just say "yeah sorry we're not doing that" and then the rest is like "oh okay then". Still a nice change.
I do have some questions about their data though. They say that by allowing multiple people to queue up together they have reduced toxicity, but I think that may be a bit unfair. While I can imagine going premade will reduce toxicity for the premade players, I can also imagine premades being aggressive to the one or two solo queuers because clearly those ****ed up their game. It may have reduced overall toxicity (as in the amount of victims has decreased in the data) but it may have made toxicity for solo queuers a lot worse (a certain solo queuers is more often a victim now).
They changed nothing about the game, it's not like the game will tilt people less than before, the only thing that can change is how they vent it. And if not on their premade friends, well, guess who's left to take all the ****.
I watched the Dynamic Queue talk and although I found it refreshing to get at least SOME info, I feel like the engineers have way too much power. They just say "yeah sorry we're not doing that" and then the rest is like "oh okay then". Still a nice change.
I do have some questions about their data though. They say that by allowing multiple people to queue up together they have reduced toxicity, but I think that may be a bit unfair. While I can imagine going premade will reduce toxicity for the premade players, I can also imagine premades being aggressive to the one or two solo queuers because clearly those ****ed up their game. It may have reduced overall toxicity (as in the amount of victims has decreased in the data) but it may have made toxicity for solo queuers a lot worse (a certain solo queuers is more often a victim now).
They changed nothing about the game, it's not like the game will tilt people less than before, the only thing that can change is how they vent it. And if not on their premade friends, well, guess who's left to take all the ****.
********'s a pretty good fertilizer
I don't entirely agree with your last point. Let's say there's a 4-man with the random being adc and top and mid lane both feed early. Normally in a soloqueue environment, people might flame the two feeders, or maybe the jungler for not winning their lanes for them, but since they're premade there probably won't be any toxicity in that event. It's not vented at the adc ('cause there's actually nothing they could do about it), it's just gone.
It's definitely more tempting for a lot of people to blame the random when things go wrong, but I think there's probably a lot less toxicity in a 4-1 queue than solo queue. Still might be a bit worse for solo queuers overall, but solo queue was already a pretty harsh experience, so I don't think getting blamed is really anything new there.
There are also premades who might vent in their voice chat to each other about the random, rather than in the game chat, which is also (still kinda bad but) better than solo queuers venting in chat.
It's definitely more tempting for a lot of people to blame the random when things go wrong, but I think there's probably a lot less toxicity in a 4-1 queue than solo queue. Still might be a bit worse for solo queuers overall, but solo queue was already a pretty harsh experience, so I don't think getting blamed is really anything new there.
There are also premades who might vent in their voice chat to each other about the random, rather than in the game chat, which is also (still kinda bad but) better than solo queuers venting in chat.
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Well their numbers do allegedly show that there is less toxicity overall, I don't go against that, but I do think that the premades in this new system have a worse time than before.
To go a bit further on your point, doing wrong is not necessarily a requirement for toxicity. It was in the old system, but in the 4-1 situation it can still be vented on the 1 even if he's doing well. There are always little things to whine about in the first place, but secondly, history and events right now show that anything that makes you different from the majority (not being in their premade or whatever else) can and will be used as a means to vent on people. They feel secure being with the majority so they're not afraid of retaliation.
I think your voice chat point is interesting though, I had not thought of that. Maybe you are right and it's better for solo queuers too because of that. I'd just like to have the figures on it (we just don't know for sure). Right now their numbers don't mean anything to me for the solo queuer.
To go a bit further on your point, doing wrong is not necessarily a requirement for toxicity. It was in the old system, but in the 4-1 situation it can still be vented on the 1 even if he's doing well. There are always little things to whine about in the first place, but secondly, history and events right now show that anything that makes you different from the majority (not being in their premade or whatever else) can and will be used as a means to vent on people. They feel secure being with the majority so they're not afraid of retaliation.
I think your voice chat point is interesting though, I had not thought of that. Maybe you are right and it's better for solo queuers too because of that. I'd just like to have the figures on it (we just don't know for sure). Right now their numbers don't mean anything to me for the solo queuer.
********'s a pretty good fertilizer
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