I just think it would have been nice to send some invites out to people who signed up on announcement day who have clearly been waiting the longest to get in.
real talk we wanted to, but since we were only collecting emails on the website we couldn't quite partition or target correctly for closed beta.
tl;dr the technology wasn't there but we were trying for it because I agree with you
Thanks for taking the time to calm us down. I have two questions:
Are the drops attributed to random people at random times or do you send waves of X whitelists?
How can I convince insecure self that, despite of not having missed more than 30 minutes of drop windows, creating multiple accounts is not the right thing to do?
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We stan Gary
I have a question because your post and the website has got me wondering, if I really do watch say 80~hrs of partnered streams, and I stop watching, can I still receive a drop in my twitch inventory? Or you have to actively be watching in order to be eligible for that wave of drops?
nope we see you - take a break, you'll (hopefully) eventually have one sitting in your inbox when you get back (or check your email)
If you do this again, would you please make it a little more obvious that someone is entered in the beta key lottery? I've seen a lot of people watch hours of streams just to realize they were never properly entered. I think the website should have " CONNECT YOUR RIOT ACCOUNT WITH TWITCH" greyed out to show you're connected correctly, or maybe on Twitch say "YOU are eligible for drops from this stream"
Edit: Apparently that "Drops Enabled" bit at the bottom of the stream only appears if you have a linked acount. I had no idea.
yeah... technically this has been a challenge. Definitely a lesson to prioritize clarity.
Does "relinking" your riot account to your twitch account reset your hours watched? I had originally linked my Riot account with twitch on April 3rd, but I clicked "link accounts" on the website again today on accident, it went to twitch, and it showed that it connected to twitch, also sent me an email saying i signed up for Valorant ( 3rd or 4th one now ).
I've watched ~20 hours now, in a mix of keeping it afk / actually watching. Did I mess up by clicking the button, or is it fine?
I don't think so because we're tracking on our end viewtimes attached to accounts. If you unlink and watch 50 hours and then re-link you've lost the 50 hours but if you're fiddling with it, you should be okay.
How do you personally feel about the lottery system for the closed beta access?
Also, how is the beta launch going for you so far? What is the most pleasant unexpected occurrence and the least pleasant unexpected occurrence?
I'll do some real-talk here around this... very few (if any) company puts engineering or resource efforts toward closed beta access because it's a single moment to test server loads. We wanted to do a lot here around making a more 'fair' way to get closed beta access, but needed to put resources elsewhere. It happens.
Right now Twitch is the best MVP approach because we really wanted to focus on players knowing what they were getting into before getting into it. VALORANT is a hard game and we wanted to prioritize people who knew this game was for them vs. passive interest of people getting a random key from a website key generator.
I personally think watching Twitch streams is a great way to start to understand the game, and then to decide if it's for you. I was okay with that number being small but... we're seeing it's pretty large.
For some reason, even though I am in the US and signed up in the US, my riot account is listed as Albania region. Am I still eligible for drops? I have been watching for close to 24 hours now so I feel a bit defeated.
Reach out to player support ASAP to change your regional home base
If my LoL account is on NA but I am currently living abroad, am I still eligible for a drop?
Where'd you register that account? If you're in EU, reach out to player support to change your home based location.
What does diminishing returns mean?
Every additional hour you watch of streams increases your weighting but adds less with each additional hour you watch. So going from 2hrs to 3hrs means more in weighting than going from, say, 80hrs to 81hrs of watching. We definitely see the ones marathoning and are thinking about how to help but don't want that to be the standard.
Do you put any weight on the age of the riot account? Would be nice as i've got almost ten years on it.
No, sorry :(
do i have to watch 2 hours at every wave? or once i watched 2 hours im eligible for all future waves?
No, you're eligible for all waves.
How are you?
A little tired but insanely excited :) Was up at 4am yesterday, slept at 1am because I wanted to play some games and couldn't through the day, and now up today to see how we can keep on going.
Thanks for asking!
thanks for your time. there seems to still be some confusion about diminishing returns. might wanna clear that one up?
I can't really expose the math of it because it's both complicated (our data scientist ran me through it and it's crazy albeit fair) and we don't want it to be gamified.
Here's what I'll say: watching more helps, it does, but watching like 12hrs of streams vs. 80hrs of streams isn't so significant that you should bleed your eyes out. The largest BY FAR impacting issue is the sheer NUMBER of people in line. They all have a chance, and we have a limited amount of space in the club.
Here to answer questions, lmk
(Now adding in answers here as I see questions...)
How do you personally feel about the lottery system for the closed beta access?
I'll do some real-talk here around this... very few (if any) company puts engineering or resource efforts toward closed beta access because it's a single moment to test server loads. We wanted to do a lot here around making a more 'fair' way to get closed beta access, but needed to put resources elsewhere. It happens.
Right now Twitch is the best MVP approach because we really wanted to focus on players knowing what they were getting into before getting into it. VALORANT is a hard game and we wanted to prioritize people who knew this game was for them vs. passive interest of people getting a random key from a website key generator.
I personally think watching Twitch streams is a great way to start to understand the game, and then to decide if it'...
Read moreI'm glad it's feeling good for you! Thanks for the kind words :-)
As a former potato-gamer myself, it's really important to me that everyone has a shot at solid framerate in the game.
+1 to this. Koalifier and the rest of us on the Gameplay Integrity team sweat over this stuff daily. Trying to make it the best experience possible for as many players as possible.
I believe we may have pushed out a fix for this issue. Please restart to pull down the latest version. Make sure the RiotClientService.exe is dead prior to starting the game back up again. It seems to have been getting stuck shutting down for a few folks, use task manager to kill it. Once its dead and you launch the game again it should install the latest version with the fix. Let us know if you are still running into this after downloading the latest version.
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