THE PROBLEMS WITH WILD RIFT (responding to @HellsDevilwildrift's AWESOME podcast) ft @iTzSTU4RT
Lot of links for this - "The problems with Wild Rift" - we talk about Wild Rift balancing, wild rift matchmaking, wild rift AFKs, Wild rift toxicity and Wild Rift communication. Lots to talk about!
Hells Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPM6QVrLpSQ&t=2858s
00:00 - Intro
02:00 - Matchmaking Inconsistency
Riot Matchmaking: https://wildrift.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-making-sense-of-matchmaking/
Further updates on matchmaking: https://wildrift.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/more-updates-coming-to-matchmaking/
Matchmaking Paper: http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~yzsun/papers/WWW17Chen_EOMM
MATCHMAKING AND MMR
11:00 - Matchmaking Inconsistencies influenced by role impact
12:40 - Pre-made party queues (5 man, duo and trio)
18:00 - Solo Q only in Master?
22:30 - LP gain inconsistency and LP inflation
25:40 - MMR - what is it?
27:20 - The case against loss prevention
28:15 - Excoundrels radical solution to how we perceive matches
31:00 - Loss prevention and promotion series
32:10 - Does your team hold you back?
33:00 - How does matchmaking actually work? (humans are the problem)
TOXICITY AND PUNISHMENTS
37:15 - AFK Players
39:20 - Remake function, would it work?
43:00 - AFK player recovery methods?
45:10 - Toxicity in chat (harsh punishments)
CONTENT CREATION
52:00 - The LPP Program
53:20 - Should Riot promote content creators?
56:00 - Do NA content creators get more events?
58:20 - Reasoning for NA getting "more"
01:01:50 - Are content creators leaving Wild Rift?
01:07:20 - Gifting Restrictions
RIOT
01:08:40 - Dev Streams and Dev Interactions
BALANCE
01:13:40 - How Riot Balance Champions
Riot Article on Balancing: https://wildrift.leagueoflegends.com/en-gb/news/dev/wild-rift-dev-balancing-wild-rift/
01:16:40 - Difficulty with balance in a MOBA
PATCH 3.0
01:21:30 - Why was patch 3.0 small?
01:24:38 - How Wild Rift patches influence esports (and why we need a tournament realm)
CHAMPIONS AND RUNES
01:31:20 - Why are we getting less champions in 2022
01:35:08 - Runes and Items discussion
01:42:00 - Final thoughts
End Screen Music Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fklJrlmwRTs&t=34s
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