In the new LoL mode “Teamfight Tactics”, the rush on the servers is tremendous. Apparently, Europe loves strategy games: the Scandinavians and Germans are leading the charge. Riot raises the alarm, the rush on the servers leads to long wait times in the queue.
This is what Riot says: Last night, the head of Teamfight Tactics tweeted:
More players want to try the new mode on EU-W than anywhere else in the world. That’s nice, but there are so many people that not all of them can get into matches.
The result is long wait times in the queue and problems – last night, Teamfight Tactics was even disabled for several hours.
This is how the queues have developed:
- Yesterday morning, Teamfight Tactics went live in Europe and could be played without long queues
- In the afternoon, wait times of 5 to 10 minutes occurred. Riot Games activated the queue throttling.
- In the evening, Teamfight Tactics was then disabled, players could not join any queues.
- At the moment, on Friday morning, one can join a game almost without wait times.
Where is Teamfight Tactics popular? According to search interest on Google (via google-trends), “Teamfight Tactics” is a game that people in cold regions love. The 10 top countries are:
- Estonia
- Denmark
- Lithuania
- Sweden
- Poland
- Norway
- Czech Republic
- Canada
- Germany
- and Finland
However, the mode is also not expected to be released in Asia and South America until later. We will see if Asia gets as excited about LoL Auto Chess.
Germans love strategy games
This is what fuels the enthusiasm for Teamfight Tactics: “LoL Auto Chess” is a turn-based strategy game where players must develop and follow a short-term, mid-term, and long-term plan through the clever use of their resources (gold, champions, and items).
The factors champion and items are dependent on chance. Gold is a constant that can be influenced by certain behaviors.
The player sets up their team and develops it between rounds. Once a battle has begun, the player can no longer influence it.
Apparently, many in Germany were looking forward to a return of “turn-based strategy games” – for them, Teamfight Tactics is now something they want to play or at least try.
Additionally, players are familiar with the champions and items from the world of League of Legends, and many are well-acquainted with them.
Is there also criticism? The two most common criticisms of the game are
- individual rounds last about half an hour, it’s probably not suitable for “just popping in”
- and the element of chance is criticized, especially when one loses, it’s naturally due to their own bad luck and the luck of others
