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DomNomNom

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Friday, May 11th 2012, 8:34am

Weekly Free Champions To Be Removed From Ranked Games

We've gotten away from covering DevTalk here at State of the League. In fact, I barely even remember how to use the red quote formatter thing. Sometimes, however, pretty serious news breaks, and in those times a man has to re-learn what he has learned.

It shouldn't come as a suprise, but the always excellent Moobeat caught the following (super important) red quotes:

Originally Posted by Lyte
Free2Play Champions are being removed from Ranked Solo/Duo Queue soon unless you own the champions. We may revisit this policy in the future, but we are going to test this out.

 

In brief, we are exploring various hypotheses we have about sources of noise in Ranked Ladder. Removing F2P champions ultimately raises the barrier of entry into Ranked Ladder slightly (such that you must now own 16 champions to play Ranked); secondarily, players tend to be more experienced with Champions they own, so that might help reduce the fluctuations in skill we are observing.

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So, at the very least there's now one less argument players can use about being stuck in this "ELO hell" I hear so much about.

But I doubt that'll stop. People like to do their complainin'. Makes the heart feel good.

 

[Sources: Surrender at 20; League of Legends forums]

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Thursday, May 17th 2012, 5:58pm

And Riot finds another way to earn more money and pose as "Good guys making the game better for you"

Nothing agains making money, the more they profit, stronger (and better, in theory) the game becomes, but I don't know, don't like this story they told.

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