Riot, please change the Disconnect Message

kepchupp·Nov 4, 2014·3 votes·664 views

When I first started playing LoL, there were different messages based on how people left the game, but at some point awhile ago that changed so that no matter how someone disconnects, it says "[Username] has quit." or however it is worded.

I find this to be a very demoralizing message in itself, because it always makes it seem like the person purposely left, or they gave up, etc. And I see quite a few people in games become disheartened when they see a teammate has "quit" on them, and even worse is when some people begin to rage themselves because of it.

I'm not sure why you got rid of all of the other messages in the first place, although I'm sure there is a good reason for it, so I'm not asking for you to necessarily put them all back, but I would really appreciate at least changing the phrasing of the current Disconnect message to something that is less demoralizing to see as a teammate.

3 Comments

Smokey JoeNov 4, 20145 votes

All I'd like to know is if the guy who left DC'd or if he just clicked "exit game" and never plans on coming back because if I know he DC'd and didn't quit the game I'll still have hope that he'll return.

kepchuppNov 4, 20145 votes

This is exactly my point. If someone does simply disconnect, then I don't feel that they should be "reported for AFK" and trash talked, and I think that teams will stay positive until the person is able to reconnect. I've had games where it was a 4v5 for 20 minutes, and the DC finally comes back and we were able to turn the game around (and we kept our hope that he'd return because before DCing, he'd mentioned a storm going on at his house).

But when you see the message that a person has just quit, that can hurt a team's confidence a lot. Heck, maybe you're game bugged and you need to quit in order to re-load, but usually people at least say that they're going to do that first.