Riot, please remove the five minute Leaverbuster auto-kick

SkyPiglet·7/30/2014, 4:40:36 AM·6 votes·1,981 views

I am referring to the Leaverbuster auto-kick which happens when the game thinks you have been idle for five minutes.

Why? Well, I am sure everyone has experienced that moment when your game crashes or DCs, and Leaverbuster incorrectly thinks that you are still connected and simply idling. After multiple attempts to reconnect, your game finally goes through! ...but then you get booted by Leaverbuster because of this five minute timer.

I don't understand the reasoning behind this idle kick. Besides Leaverbuster reading players incorrectly, it makes no sense to make an AFK player to AFK even longer by closing their game and forcing them to reload.** It doesn't punish the player, it only punishes their team even more by increasing the duration of their absence.**

Secondly, when situations like a false idle happen, it inevitably affects people who have slower computers/internet connections more than others-- before I upgraded to my current computer, it would take maybe two minutes to load the game. When you take into account multiple attempts to reconnect during server or client-side internet issues, this time can easily reach five minutes. And all the while, Leaverbuster thinks you are just idling.

Please do away with this feature, Riot. Even when it's working properly, it still doesn't make sense.

7 Comments

Toxfire7/30/2014, 6:55:12 AM2 votes

Yeah I don't understand this ether. If they wan't us in the game why would they kick us out of it?

SerBlaise7/30/2014, 1:36:10 PM2 votes

Yeah I hate when this happens. Especially because the first thing you want to do when you reconnect is BUY, and unless you move your character the split second you get in you get kicked and loose another 5 minutes.

Phoenix Kotori 7/30/2014, 3:52:32 PM2 votes

Why? Well, I am sure everyone has experienced that moment when your game crashes or DCs, and Leaverbuster incorrectly thinks that you are still connected and simply idling. After multiple attempts to reconnect, your game finally goes through! ...but then you get booted by Leaverbuster because of this five minute timer.

I've never actually seen this happen to myself nor any of my friends I've played with even on a computer restart. Maybe you should quit leaving games and this wouldn't happen.

chocolate and ca10/4/2014, 2:07:20 PM1 votes

I agree, i think that the leaverbuster is too strict.