Why does Riot blame players for dc when their servers cause it half the time?

Streaks For Days·12/27/2015, 6:46:52 AM·3 votes·588 views

Recently I was playing LoL smoothly at 202 fps exactly and just around 78 ping. It was running perfectly until my ping jumped to literally over 1000. I know it was not my computer, because it was running at low settings. After I give up on reconnecting, (I tried countless times) I just force quit the client. After returning several hours later, I am faced with a 20 MINUTE LEAVERBUSTER. So, I wait it out each time for 3 games. On my fourth wait, the server causes issues with my connection (it even said it was the server on a notification), and I wait in the waiting queue for 15 minutes, and I know that it should not be that long ( I am not ranked lol). I just want to know why i get punished for something that was not my fault; that is all.

4 Comments

BIue Monk12/27/2015, 7:03:54 AM1 votes

Yes, I don't know what is my own proportion of AFKed games, but probably 98.9% due to :

Adobe Air wanting to re-check your client files for 15 mins before letting you start the game again,
When the client crashes, the "Reconnect" button actually never works, you need to close Adobe Air, and open it again, otherwise it tells you that you don't have internet (it's very buggy, and if you don't know this you might not be able to reconnect at all),
Everything starts, but a file is missing or corrupted once you are in the game (he couldn't tell you that before), causing client crash and a needed reinstallation of the whole game,
Riot client instability and very very weird behaviour when your computer is running on low RAM or low HDD (it resets your game options).

But I had no connectivity problems from Riot servers since... months (even no drophacks), am I just lucky? If you have internet connectivity problems, you can find guides (on this forum I guess) which explains how to check if it really don't come from your computer (speed tests, etc.), once its checked, maybe you can try to open a ticket to the support. I don't know, that's just an idea.

Paroe12/27/2015, 7:09:50 AM1 votes

99% of the time these problems are NOT one-offs.
If you play a game at 500ping, and play another game right after its YOUR fault.
The chance of it being a riot problem is EXTREMELY slim because, newflash, if its a problem with riots servers then its a global problem and everyone is effected.
Your ISP and riot might be having problems; when riot updates firmware, it occasionally causes issues with other ISPs (hughs net is infamous for this).

5)YOUR HARDWARE HAS SO LITTLE TO DO WITH YOUR PING. IF YOU CAN RUN IT AT ABOVE 90 FRAMES EVER, A SUDDEN PING SPIKE IS 100% A FAULT WITH YOU AND NOT RIOT

Streaks For Days1/15/2016, 5:40:10 AM1 votes

ok. I will try to see if their is anything wrong with me. Thanks for the answers