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Leaverbuster forcing you to type "I Agree" to not ever have your game fail to launch.

Hassohappa·5/17/2018, 11:11:13 PM·3 votes·1,667 views

Went to play a game of League today, same as I did yesterday and many days prior. Haven't had any issues with the game failing to launch, but today after champ select when the game went to load I got a very generic Direct X error saying I needed to upgrade my video card drivers that had successfully run the game last night. Oddly enough I was unable to update my drivers in time before my team called for a remake, so I got handed a loss. I honestly like that system, teams having to go through 15 minutes of torture 4v5 because someone didn't load in was terrible and obviously they need to give the person that didn't load in a loss to keep someone who wants to avoid a game they think they are going in with a disadvantage from abusing the system.

But then as I was updating my drivers I noticed the League client had a new screen loaded, and it was the end of match screen with this sanctimonious tripe overlaid on top of it that started out with "Going AFK or abandoning a match (even if it's unintentional) isn't cool" and capped it off with "So help us out: can you agree to not leave any further games?" Then there's a box in which I am supposed to type "I Agree."

What the heck am I agreeing to? That the game will never fail to launch again? If this were some sort of recurring issue or something it might be one thing, but this is not a common occurrence. I cannot remember the last time I failed to load a game, and I have never quit a game mid-progress unless I'm forgetting some sort of thing like a power outage during a game years ago or something. Like the aggravation of having the game fail to launch and trying to get a driver update downloaded and installed in the short window of time I had to attempt such a thing was all ready there, but being forced to type "I Agree" in that stupid little box for a complete one-off, unintentional issue before I could interact at all with the League client is sometime I find truly enraging to the point I'm going to go walk my dog.

Does anyone really think this helps? Do they have some sort of data showing that making people agree to never have the game fail to launch again helps in any measurable way? Is this prompt just there as holier-than-thou sniping?

5 Comments

Fear the Kayn5/17/2018, 11:18:09 PM2 votes

With Riots horrible spaghetti code I don't think they'd be able to differentiate it. A system like this would be really nice but I don't think Riot has IQ high enough to code it.

SweatyGoatBoy11/11/2019, 8:59:12 AM1 votes

Old post I know, but I'm dealing with this crap now. Never had the game freeze or fail to load until an update ago and suddenly I have to promise to not have my game bug and freeze after they messed it up with a recent patch. Am I a joke? Is this a joke? Riot bugs the game out with a patch, I have to hard restart my computer and the enemy team just feeds and instantly loses in less than 15min on Urf and I have to promise not to do that again? This ham handed finger wagging is beyond parody. I'm a very casual League player but this just feels like a slap in the face for something that was 100% Riot's fault.