Why is the queue penalty now account wide?

Seraphayel · June 20

Like honestly, what the…?

First if we‘re not accepting an invite to a round of Tales of Tribute we get the penalty and second, to add insult to injury, the penalty is not character bound anymore but account wide?

Honestly, who asked for this? One of these changes alone would have been horrible enough but both at the same time?

Personofsecrets · June 21

Because the new way of doing things is all about fun. It's all about keeping things fresh. It's all about having the convenience that we missed out on for years.

Altera0x · June 21

My theory is, there was “too much” wintrading, that abuses casual queue via denying games when queue is not empty. So devs decided to slap on the easiest bandaid they've got, and in the process finally noticed that their beloved penalty was not “working properly” and silently fixed that (giving at least a mention in patch notes would be too embarrassing, I guess).

Personofsecrets · June 22

Altera0x wrote: »

My theory is, there was “too much” wintrading, that abuses casual queue via denying games when queue is not empty. So devs decided to slap on the easiest bandaid they've got, and in the process finally noticed that their beloved penalty was not “working properly” and silently fixed that (giving at least a mention in patch notes would be too embarrassing, I guess).

That would make sense why rejecting the que pop also results in a 5 minute cooldown now. I have a feeling that, in the past, some players may have been trying to get games with either their friends or alt accounts by queing and waiting to see if the que is accepted or not before accepting the que on their own account.