There was a problem in League of Legends, concerning the ranking queue. What exactly was broken?
Bugs for League of Legends players are nothing new. Fans can regularly encounter gameplay or client issues that sometimes have a greater and sometimes lesser impact on the LoL experience. As a rule, players can get over minor graphical glitches, which can sometimes be fun, but they can’t tolerate bugs that can ruin games and change the outcome of gameplay.
This time the problem concerned the ranking queue and league points. What exactly was corrupted and why did the developers eliminate the bug right away?
A serious bug in LoL
There are many bugs in League of Legends, which the developers often do not even try to eliminate. Some time ago, it was possible to learn about the difficulties faced by professionals during competent games (There was a serious bug during the LoL LCK Championship. What do the referees and Riot say?). In some cases, the developers do not fix the bugs but only inform about their existence.
This time the problem concerned the ranking queue and league points. It turned out that a player leaving a queue does not lose points, but is only penalized with additional waiting time.
I left the hero selection screen on 3 different accounts to make sure that dodging is not penalized by loss of LP (previously it was -3 and -10 LP). Now you only get a timer of 5 minutes, 30 minutes or 12 hours. It looked different before, and Riot did not announce the changes anywhere in the roster of the last update.
Rioter spoke out in the thread, writing that the discovered change was not intentional, and the developers are already working to eliminate the bug. Although there was a voice of dissatisfaction in some of the comments, with fans writing that correcting bugs affecting gameplay should be a much higher priority, most commenters said that Riot should address the league points problem immediately.
After more players found out about the bug, the hero selection screen was exited much more often, as it was not associated with as serious consequences as it should have been.