Originally Posted by PaulStanely

The last sentence caught my eye and reminded me of a tedtalk video.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgoni...ter_world.html

whenever you guys have the chance, TED should be bookmarked on everyones computers!

Originally Posted by davin

Jane's talk is pretty interesting, I think people here will enjoy it It's a bit blue-sky, but is wonderful as a thought-provoker.

Lyte and I have actually both worked studying games in different academic contexts, so the question was probably a bit rhetorical from him. Games make for pretty awesome training tools when made for instruction via gameplay. I used to work studying and creating serious games and figuring out how to make them more effective in terms of motivation, learning, etc.

Originally Posted by Lyte

Before Riot, I worked in a research lab. There's a lot we can do to determine all the variables that led you to purchasing Urgot with varying degrees of confidence and accuracy; there's also a lot we can do to predict with varying degrees of accuracy who will buy what champion or skin.

There's a lot of research directly with our players too; just because you have not received one of our in-game surveys or invites to our research groups does not necessarily mean we don't do them. As another example, we can't bring millions of players into Riot HQ to do an eyetracking study, right? You might have never seen other companies do this in online games, but very few video game companies have half a dozen PhDs that run a research team in the company

EDIT ::: Clarified the "varying degrees of accuracy" for both statements.

Originally Posted by Juraian

If you have such an intelligent research team at riot, why cant you come up with a better ranking system.

Originally Posted by PaulStanely

I do agree it's a bit out there, but really what hit me is that us gamers do acquire a certain skill set from gaming. I would love to be part of (or at least witness to) the team that is able to crack the barrier and find a way to take advantage of gamers' cognitive expertise.

Originally Posted by Imclueless

Might I direct you to one of the megathreads where they talk about the matchmaker and the ranking system?

Originally Posted by Savage Winter

where?

Originally Posted by pavi132

"But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career"

That line is all I could think of when reading your post.

Originally Posted by Lyte

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/....php?t=1827767
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/....php?t=1976101