Alexander Arici

@drewlevin @BreakAurelius @drewlevin I've got my DMs open if you want to talk off the timeline. no journalist traps, I’m just a player who respects your work and effort. I know you have to debunk the "scheduled losses" strawman, but the real issue is using patented behavioral profiling to shape lobbies.

if you think “the LP system existing” is EOMM, sure, that’s one thing. but there is straight up no such thing as scheduled losses and I have spent the last year and a half as the product lead in the space, I would absolutely know. a lot of our effort right now in that space is going toward getting to faster + more accurate assessments of new account skill so that we can put them in fairly matched (defined as ~50% win expectancy) games.

Hello! Since you've quote-replied to a dozen of my tweets with this, I'll just quote this instead of replying to any single one of them. Here's what you did at 1x speed. For context, three of your four teammates reported you in this game. The reason this was a 30 day ban is because this isn't your first time doing this kind of thing. Going back through the history: you did this exact thing on May 20th in game 5564350978, you hit the 0/6 into sell your entire inventory Yasuo combo on April 28th in game 5548923059, you did this on March 12 in game 5510891251, again on March 2nd in game 5504125689, and again on February 19th in game 5495208283. If anything, we have been too willing to give you opportunities to reform. Feel free to quit. Your penalty is well placed and will not be lifted.

@33_Ai_Bots @drewlevin @BreakAurelius I was being super duper sarcastic. Whoosh.

@AAbattery444 @drewlevin @BreakAurelius Pretending to know everything about a company you don’t work for is a hilarious mental illness. “Those players buy skins so you should just do it for money.” What a retard.

@drewlevin @BreakAurelius Listen Drew, I really like you. You're one of the good ones. I'd buy you a beer if I ever met you but when you say shit like that, but pretend the company you work for doesn't use EOMM to fuck people over, you're being dishonest with yourself. I get it. NDA'S suck. But cmon dude

@AAbattery444 @BreakAurelius and 900,000 of those hypothetical players do toxic enough things to get banned, ruining millions of players’ experiences it ain’t just about the money

@drewlevin @BreakAurelius 10% of a million players is 100,000 players. And those players buy skins.

@BreakAurelius recidivism rate was 90%+ bro it is straight up not worth it

@Pirat_Nation If buying isn't owning....

PS5 emulation has hit another impressive milestone. A Discord user named RSantila reportedly booted Astro Bot on a Windows PC using SharpEmu, an experimental PS5 emulator. This is huge since Astro Bot is a 2024 PS5 exclusive and shows how quickly PS5 emulation is advancing. One interesting detail is that Claude is listed as a contributor to the SharpEmu project on GitHub because people are using it to advance even faster. Apparently the community is contributing more after Sony’s recent announcement about ending physical game distribution in some markets. Don’t expect to play PS5 games on PC anytime soon, though. Booting a game is just the first step.

@drewlevin @drewlevin Appreciate the open floor. Main concern is behavioral profiling dictating lobbies over skill. Per Riot's patent (Claims 16/17), honor/report data forms the team baseline before MMR is even factored. Competitive skill should be the foundation. [patents.google.com/patent/US11065…]

Reflecting on a number of matchmaking frustrations that people have shared with me over the last few months, I’ve heard a few common frustrations. I’d appreciate it if folks who have felt the pain in this space let me know if this captures their major concerns: 1. Some people believe that offering personal performance-based loss mitigation is mostly doomed, because it creates selfish incentives that pulls a player away from exclusively focusing on helping their team maximize win expectancy. 2. Some people are frustrated with duo queue in Master not having returned. Concerns about duo queue competitive integrity largely sit in two spaces: (a) boosting people from outside/low master into GM+, and (b) the difficulty of balancing games with GM+/GM+ duos, as different duos will contribute different win expectancies in ways that feel like you’re either smashing lobbies or being forced to 2v8. 3. Master+ players feel that there is room to increase queue times if it means narrowing the within-team skill range. 4. Some players do not understand that some accounts in climbing states (e.g. high Diamond MMR, Emerald rank) are being appropriately placed in their respective lobbies on the basis of skill evaluation. This contributes to - but is not the sole or primary driver of - frustration with (3). How does that read for y’all as “here’s what’s frustrating about matchmaking right now”?

@BluC1u @MelGibson888 @Pirat_Nation That's not the point. When you buy something, you own it. But clearly Sony disagrees.

@MelGibson888 @Pirat_Nation If you got 2+ years without singing into your account i don’t think you gaf bout the games cause clearly you haven’t played them in 2+ years

PlayStation updated its Terms of Service in April 2026, and Section 21 outlines how inactive PSN accounts may be closed. > If a PSN account remains inactive for 36 months, Sony may begin the account closure process. The account holder will receive an email notification and has 6 months to sign in or request that the account remain active. > If no action is taken and the account is closed, access to PlayStation Network services will end. >Any digital purchases tied to that account, including games, DLC, and other digital content, will no longer be accessible. According to the Terms of Service, this process is irreversible.

@drewlevin @xFSN_Saber Drew you are the fucking man lol. We appreciate you. Can riot just create an Ai version of you and have it monitor every ranked game lol? Jokes aside, thank you for what you do man.

@xFSN_Saber any time you wanna reply to my pinned with the game ID and player, we’ll use it as training data for improving our systems + action it

One of the issues is that there are people literally afking in my games and there's no way to punish unless you @drewlevin on twitter

@drewlevin @sauronsquidmain Genuine question: why can't riot just add a section to the league client where players can create the guides, like with Dota? Doesn't that just save you all the trouble?

@sauronsquidmain players tell us to make tutorials about wave management because the rules about how the little guys hit each other are esoteric enough and influential enough on outcomes to warrant a tutorial part of game development is listening to feedback and hearing what the real issue is

players: Riot should really care about making the game more approachable and comprehensible to people trying to learn the game those same players: Riot is killing their game yet again by removing an esoteric minion targeting rule that 10,000 people worldwide understand

@drewlevin I wish riot did it across every ranked bracket. If I can climb solo queue Adc, I can do it again. But make all the inters and trolls race to gold and plat when they don't take their games seriously.

pretty wild to read a bunch of masters+ players talk about how bad matchmaking feels 72 hours after we stopped using a bunch of historical data references that underpinned skill evaluation in apex, then scroll down and read someone argue that we should’ve done that for all ranks.

@drewlevin "And I am whatever you say I am. If I wasn't, then why would I say I am" type shit.

inb4 everyone asks me whether this means what they think this means if this didn't mean what you think this means then why would you be here asking if this means what you think it means?

buying accounts still illegal fyi

@drewlevin As much as I think Vanguard is basically Spyware, part of me is kinda glad that at least people like you (drew) are using hwid to connect surf accounts with their main accounts.

open for fun short story

@drewlevin 7: This is exactly why inting is so prevalent and league and it's exactly why people are complaining to you that they're only recourse is to become toxic in chat. These two issues are extremely intertwined. If you get rid of inting, you get rid of toxic chat.

If your theory of mind says that you can get your teammates to play better by using your words, can't you also get them to play worse? And if you wanted to get them to play worse, wouldn't a great strategy be to persuade them to dislike you, maybe by insulting them repeatedly?

A thought I had this morning: I encounter a decent amount of people trying to justify their negative chat behavior by saying that Riot doesn't sufficiently penalize soft inting, with the implication that their own use of chat is their only real recourse to getting inted.

@drewlevin 9: also, sorry for the typos. I was using voice to text and I can't go back and edit my comments on Twitter unfortunately. But you understand the general gist. Anyway, thanks for all that you do. We as players always appreciate it.

@drewlevin 8: But it doesn't work the other way around. Getting rid of chat does not get rid of the inting. It actually makes it worse because you take away the only recourse that people have to feel in control of the situation.

@drewlevin 6: Unfortunately the low-hanging fruit is that people give up way too easily and decide that it's easier to feel more in control by intentionally trying to lose than by intentionally trying to win...

@drewlevin 5: The general idea is that people will generally react to situations that make them feel like they don't have control by trying to reestablish that sense of control by seeking validation or comfort and external forces...

@drewlevin 4: To understand this , I would highly recommend that you or the dev team look into something called compensatory control theory.

@drewlevin 3: That has diminishing returns unfortunately. What people usually end up doing is trying ask players politely to stop eating or to stop dying and this usually just makes people get angry and rage...

@drewlevin 2:... Since they dislike you and want to prove themselves, they will play better sheerly out of spite. I've tried to use positive reinforcement in games as much as possible to try to encourage people with gratitude every time they play well...