leaverbuster

yidakeng·Jun 4, 2015·2 votes·279 views

I play this game for 3 years, today I got a important phone call during the game,so I answer it and get leaverbuster in the end. 10 minutes * 5. we all have real life. need wait for 50 minutes to play game for just answer a phone call, I think it's time to quit. I wont play this game anymore. thanks riot.

3 Comments

Goodest GamerJun 4, 20151 votes

i got 20 *5 for leaving one game because my 2 teammates went afk 3 minutes in. i left 5 minutes after because why the hell would i waste 17 minutes but hey riot is riot. ignorance is what they specialize in.

LucentileJun 4, 20151 votes

Honestly, Leave Buster seems pretty generous. Tonight, in the four games I played, three of them had someone D/C or AFK at the start or at some point throughout the game leaving it 4v5 throughout. Only one game was a decent 5v5 without a complete AFK, and even then, someone was late to load in by four minutes or so, and never got a steady connection for the rest of the game.

I'm not sure if Riot's connection is getting better or worse, but combined with the time I had to wait due to dodging obvious trolls in champ select, I spent about 3 hours playing League tonight, but not one bit of it was in an actual, real, competitive game that was a test of anyone's skill. The wins and losses tonight meant nothing except whether when we queued up, I did or did not get the person who would screw over the whole team. Several of the D/Cs or AFKs are people I've seen with the SAME issue over the past months.

FearthedrewthJun 4, 20151 votes

The "Leave Buster" system is a complete joke. Firstly, I have been a respectful member in the LOL community since season 1, during which, I disconnected from a total of 5 games. And now I am placed in a lower priority queue, which is actually just timeout being that regardless of how many people are waiting to play, you must wait a fixed period of time before Actually entering any type of queue. My problems with this system that ~~most~~, ALL, of my friends on League fully agree;

There is NO appeal system.

Regardless of the reason for any type of latency or disconnection, Riot's developers feel that they can somehow just Know, that you intentionally left, or whatever other reason for which an accumulative hour of wait time is appropriate. And they have literally stated, "If you have been suspended for any reason, there will be absolutely no reduction in punishment time, or lifting of sentencing". 30 million daily users, and they don't have the resources, or finances to either programmatically automate, or pay interns to sift through the feedback... (or maintain a database with the word 'programmatically' included for spell checking)

The system relies on poor logic, utilizing flat statistical data, absent of the will of any other summoner involved in said 'abandoned' game

So whether or not I have appealed to my teammates, and opponents, in regards to whatever reason I may have for leaving the game, I am automatically flagged as 'Leaver'. I'm a junior level programmer, so I enjoy the idea of automating things as much as the next, but should we really be having purely objective rules deciding the fate of summoners? I think we should really leave it up to the community, e.i., only punish if others in that particular match are distraught about the 'Leaver'.

The punishment is ill-suited

An accumulative hour of wait time between games is more on the scales of "Crimes against Humanity", than an undesirable punishment that results in a positive net outcome on the LOL community. This is a Video Game , in my 5 year experience playing, I've found that only about 15% of all the summoners who regularly play, would really care about an AFK or latent join, to want to punish other summoners. I get that you can't always plan what's going to happen in the next 20-45 minutes of your life, there are countless reasons that I would be alright with a teammate of mine, leaving my team to tend to other matters. In fact, I take playing in a 4v5 as a delicacy of sorts, now I get to rally the troops and fight for a glorious victory.

In summary, I've been handed a ridiculous punishment that I have yet to serve, and I am seriously considering leaving all the time and effort I've put into this game over 5 years, and your 'leaver system', your 'yin to the yangless' , the solution to the problem that none of us thought we had. Has resulted in; an outraged community that has gotten no response on these matters, Me having to write this whole lecture, and punishment for those who have yet to receive this title(being that my lock-out means that one less person is available to start a match).

And this all could not have come at a better time, not only was there close to no chance that I was ever going to log back into this account and wait in the low priority queue when I would have had to find a new hobby, but now I have a new community, that doesn't treat it's "leavers" like "lepers"..

FIX THIS GARBAGE!