New LeaverBuster System - Indiscriminate

Veldrin·Mar 5, 2015·3 votes·745 views

I was engaged in a match for my promos to Silver, we were winning the match quite hard when I had a power outage that lasted maybe a minute. It took about 5-7 minutes for me to connect back to the game but I did so and finished the match with a victory. I am now queuing up for games for 5 minutes at a time as "punishment" for the Canadian weather causing a power outage. I get that Riot can't verify these discrepancies and their blanket style attack is designed to get legitimate quitters, but still... It's a bit $%^& that I am being punished for something completely outside of my control, especially when I reconnected as soon as I was able and finished my match. It wouldn't be so painful if it was maybe 2-3 instead of 5 of your next games. IDK. Something should be done though because legitimate players are being punished unjustly.

I was Sup with 0/1/20, this wasn't a game I wanted to leave lmao

8 Comments

RookPusherMar 5, 20152 votes

Wait, the problem is it takes 5 minutes to queue? Can't you just make a snack?

VeldrinMar 5, 20151 votes

And possibly come back 5 mins and 10 seconds later and miss the Queue notice? lol if you leave or fail the accept I think it just makes you restart the 5 mins

ZarxisMar 5, 20151 votes

I prefer the indiscriminate system because it punishes both people who intentionally leave/AFK and those who fail to ensure that they/their computers can handle a long game of League. I know that it sounds harsh to a lot of people (I'm expecting to be downvoted), but I don't think that people with toasters/terrible internet connections should be allowed to ruin games whether they can afford to fix their problems or not. I understand that the new LeaverBuster system can occasionally cause problems for people who are entirely innocent, but it does far more good than harm.

VeldrinMar 5, 20151 votes

I agree with you that it does more good than harm, but it's still inconvenient and annoying for people with legitimate issues. Also I don't agree with your insinuation that I lack the hardware and connection to play league. Every single ISP experiences down time, I don't care if you are on Joe Blows Internet Services or Time Warner Cable, you will go down; my issue wasn't even related to my ISP, it was the Canadian weather killing the power. You can't blame someone for issues with nature mate lol. As for my hardware I am running on a 16GB Ram, dual 750 GB SSD's and a Quad Core I7 processor with overclockers. Hardware and ISP are not my issue lol, alt

The Bearded BardMar 5, 20151 votes

Same. Was literally three minutes late to a game because of bugsplats and I get this leaverbuster thing. Everyone was okay with it, I didn't get reported, and we won the game. Leaverbuster needs to chill out.

SharinnenganMar 5, 20151 votes

While i really know and feel your frustration, i wish the punishment where really harder like 10000 times! Aside that particular case, if they would really punish people, you WILL NOT SEE AFK NOMORE. But they will never do... Btw i so hated it when my provider failed coupleof times and had no internet at all while in ranked:S:S

VeldrinMar 5, 20151 votes

Oh I agree, people who rage quit and intentionally leave are too immature to play a team based game and should be Permanently banned lol. It just sucks that Legit dc's get punished the same