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That is incredibly disappointing. I would love an explanation for this. Why can we add them to our friends list, but not play with them?
Hey folks, chatted with one of our tech guys about the background here, basically what this comes down to is that the friends list / chat is built on a completely different service than challenge functionality. Most pertinently, friends list / chat is shared between games (i.e. with LoL), while challenge (and matchmaking) is game-specific.
The team that owns the underlying friend / chat tech has specifically made improvements to it to support cross-shard friends / chat, while the only "improvement" to LoR's matchmaking breadth is relative to LoL's in that LoR has fewer, bigger (i.e. include more countries) shards than LoL. Unfortunately, we do still need to have at least a few distinct shards, which means separate matchmaking pools.
Still definitely get the annoyance, but hope this clarifies.
/u/Wuuthrad99 so you see this too (someone please let me know if this doesn't work like I think it does).
It does certainly work the way you think it does!
Yeah, I was kinda assuming from the start that there wouldn't be cross-region matchmaking / friendlies given the existing system in League, though I would be lying if I said I didn't get my hopes up just a bit.
I totally get the reason for why it isn't available, and the fact that you can communicate cross region is a great surprise in and of itself. It's just that my reaction reading through the news post was essentially the exact reaction contained in the meme, and thought it was funny enough to share with the community.
Ha, yup, I getcha. I'm actually gonna update the matching bullet in our 1/22 patch notes with some additional context along the lines of what I mentioned above, so thanks for helping me draft that haha.