Mardoude did not say anywhere that he wouldn't duo queue - however I am certain that the duo queue is responsible for lower LP gains as I had just previously won a game and gained +17.
By duo queueing with a lower ranked player, it lowers the overall MMR of the match. It seems obvious that a d5 player would gain less lp from winning platinum 1 match than winning a d5 match.
Finally my last point still stands from the other thread : I think it's unfair to arbitrarily set a price that my $35 would go towards 50lp (49 actually) when I had wanted 60. For a 1lp gain difference (as the booster states my average lp gain is 15, and if I had +16 gains then I would qualify for the $35 price for 60lp), proportionally the +15lp/+16lp difference should mean that I qualify for 56lp. I don't see where the seemingly random 49lp stop came from.
I would have much preferred to pay 1 net win and finish up the boost with another booster (for example Radeon) who at the time was offering a price of $70 from d5 to d4 regardless of lp gains (barring anything extreme). It's unreasonable to automatically assume that I would want to accept the offer of $35 for 49lp without even consulting me first, when it was known right from the first win of the boost that my lp gains were supposedly too low.
By duo queueing with a lower ranked player, it lowers the overall MMR of the match. It seems obvious that a d5 player would gain less lp from winning platinum 1 match than winning a d5 match.
Finally my last point still stands from the other thread : I think it's unfair to arbitrarily set a price that my $35 would go towards 50lp (49 actually) when I had wanted 60. For a 1lp gain difference (as the booster states my average lp gain is 15, and if I had +16 gains then I would qualify for the $35 price for 60lp), proportionally the +15lp/+16lp difference should mean that I qualify for 56lp. I don't see where the seemingly random 49lp stop came from.
I would have much preferred to pay 1 net win and finish up the boost with another booster (for example Radeon) who at the time was offering a price of $70 from d5 to d4 regardless of lp gains (barring anything extreme). It's unreasonable to automatically assume that I would want to accept the offer of $35 for 49lp without even consulting me first, when it was known right from the first win of the boost that my lp gains were supposedly too low.






