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I'm not implying that, more like there's opportunities to do some smarter stuff - for example it's probably reasonable to assume that dropping 6 MIA pings on an ally's head who didn't just pull off a crazy play are probably not helpful, and so we could do something about that. I think the MIA ping is super useful to be clear, and the negative framing of "what are you doing?" is very different in severity from the bait ping's "go die".

Agree there are more opportunities there. Removing the bait ping was a good initial step given what it got turned into.

Yep, this is the most recent statement on it I think.

We are looking to restore some contextual uses of the scoreboard pings for everyone, yeah! I would just caution that a lot of the generalizations around

in competitive elos people do not care about stuff like spam pings

Are very anecdotal assumptions and not as true in reality as I've seen the internet think it is.

^ Yeah this is the answer. A principle we're trying to adhere to is that nothing is persistently pingable so it doesn't just become a substitute for the alive ping. We are planning to restore some contextual uses of the scoreboard pings though - for example it's reasonable and constructive to say "Wait 10s for Malphite ult before we fight" but it doesn't help anyone to spam ping that Malphite whiffed their ult right after it was fired or died without using it, they really don't need you to tell them that they made a mistake.

I'll just mention I already addressed this narrative here. Changes like this are generally approved, planned, implemented, and tested by a variety of people more than a few days before they go live.

Yep we decided on Monday to revert the ping lockout timer increase and that'll be in 13.22, the original increase was included in the original 13.19 changes but missed patch notes, sorry.

Nah, I move camera with WASD and abilities on 1-2-3-4. It's habit at this point but I think it's a bit more optimal than moving camera with mouse because your mouse never really has downtime in League (aiming, movement, prepping positioning) whereas your keyboard hand has a ton of downtime if all you're using it for are abilities/items/etc.

The simulation hasn't been run in a while but I think it was something like ~4x longer queues, which also doesn't account for the people who'd say "forget this I'm going to go play a different game" who don't get to that point.

This is a weird narrative, if you were to go through my match history because I play League regularly (or anyone else's) and find times where I had a bad game any time since the scoreboard pings were introduced you'd find games where I got spam pinged. Devs here don't make changes because of ego, we do it with consideration to data and the actual experience players are having.

Season start 2024 gameplay content and some initial 2025 planning.

Yeah, same criteria as standard surrenders now.

If there was a way to guarantee you get to play the fun thing you wanted to play without tradeoffs we'd probably do it. The challenge is that matchmaking just breaks without some kind of load balancing mechanism (secondary roles, autofill), we just can't make matches for some players since there are different selection rates for each role (if they were all 20% we'd be cool) and queue times skyrocket, which makes people stop playing. The data pretty reliably shows that everyone says they're okay with longer queue times, but when they actually get long people stop playing. There's wiggle room with that (e.g. we could do a small increase to queue times for a small increase to match quality and it could be okay) but no load balancing mechanism is a very radical shift.

look behind you

Yes you can

You can still do this, you can still ping anything relating to your own character and it'll be sent to your team.

You can still ping enemy summoners / items / characters and they'll show to your team, this shouldn't be changed.

You can still do that, enemies are pingable.

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