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Leaver Que is a Needs to be changed.

Dallas BBQs·7/24/2015, 4:14:08 AM·2 votes·509 views

I have a problem with leaver buster, but I'm not too much of an idea guy and saying hey we should remove leaver buster isn't a bright idea itself. I've received leaver buster a lot. Almost every player who doesn't have this problem says "maybe you shouldn't have started up a game than" basically saying I shouldn't ever play pvp in one of the biggest competitive games ever. Not playing pvp in league is missing out on a lot of what the game holds so that isn't an option for me. The reason I end up getting leaver Que is, because my mother would call me at random, because she is too lazy to go to the store so she sends me or she's just mad for something that happened at her job, so she tends to flip over every little thing. Other times like today my router would disconnect. When my router disconnects my game says attempting to reconnect on the top of the screen. If i stay on that screen til the game ends my team is likely to lose due to the fact that it will be a 4v5, but I wont get leaver Que, because according to the servers I was trying to reconnect and when the game ends it will saying something like "this game is currently unavailable feel free to start a new one". However if i logout and try to reconnect making it a fair game giving my team a chance to win I can get leaver Que just, because one player doesn't like me and according to the servers i logged out of the game (left/leaver). When i came back everyone was level 5 and the enemy team was up 3 kills, nothing too serious. The Leona on my team was extremely toxic and repeatedly called me trash, because i opted to farm and catch up rather than try to fight. I did gank when possible and I didn't take any of the kills and I even went tank xin Xhao, because I knew my team needed to stall the game til late game so our vayne and ryze could scale. I muted Leona after realizing she was just gonna be consistently toxic and continued playing. Unfortunately we lost, (as much as I hate to admit it) because I was disconnected until level 5 putting my team in a bad mood from the start and our Leona was too busy flaming rather than playing. I tried my best to win, but sometimes things are just out of my control, such as my router disconnecting. I am only 17 and don't control the router in my house, because i live under my parents rules.

___With this said I would like to ask if anyone has any better ideas for punishment, because there are some people who deserve a penalty for rage quitting over little things like first blood, but even these players put time into this game and sometimes even money and don't deserve to have to wait 20 minutes for the next five games. This is a team games, thus being more fun with friends and I can't play with friends when I have leaver Que. Some people have anger management issues and don't want a toxic player to ruin there whole day by trolling/flaming them for 45 minutes straight. I haven't ever rage quite, but I understand how frustrated league can be and some of these toxic players are nice people who are just in a bad mood. Even some of my friends seem like these "toxic players" when there in a bad mood or on tilt. I hate rage quites as much as the next guy I know without a penalty it can get really bad like dota 2 is when one team starts losing, but can the community without the greatest luxuries have a voice in this discussion. please guys we need to come up with a reasonable penalty. I mean 20 minutes for the next 5 games is 1 hour and 40 minutes. on average people are awake for 12 hours. This punishment waste 1/6th of an entire day its insane for something that could be just connection issues and even if someone rage quites this is still crazy its just a video game and I know people may complain to Riot about AFKs not being punished enough, but a lot of the time these are "salty" low rank players I know, because sometimes I'm that player. At the end of the day I have never heard a plat player or higher say AFKs kept them in bronze. They hit there rank for a reason its not luck no one is gonna get lucky from bronze til plat. no one has enough luck to last them even to rank one division so please I beg of you ignore these players it is frustrating enough to put up with my connection sometimes messing up causing me to lose a game and then to have to finally reconnect attempt to win play with flaming teammates who were likely flaming before I even dc'd and then have to see the words leaver buster on my screen. Things like this make me question maybe my mom was right maybe games are bad for you, but I always remember its the community behind the game and if the community is this salty and can't accept when there just not good and then go to blame people who can't afford things like the best wifi connection ever as an excuse as to why there not gold or plat or challenger as they claim they deserve then I guess the community isn't the best. And I highly doubt those who complained about AFKs keeping them in low ranks made it out of there ranks.

9 Comments

Kãtãrinã7/24/2015, 4:20:02 AM2 votes

20 minutes is the shortest time frame on can FF correct? So you ruined say "A" game by rage quitting. So riot makes you wait the MINIMUM game time of a match before you can que. Seeing as you wasted 4 other peoples time they find this is just. I'm not saying it is right or wrong i'm informing you why it is this long.

MadmanWithBox7/24/2015, 5:49:58 AM2 votes

I'm sorry - I was honestly put off by the wall text, and I just couldn't bring myself to read the whole post. But here's what I could gather from a brief skim:

"I'm in a unique situation wherein, by no fault of my own, I am consistently unable to complete matchmade games. I understand that every game that I abandon is ruined for nine other people, but I think that I deserve a pass each time my real-life circumstances interrupt a game. Even though I know I'm very likely to be interrupted by my mother/router, I really really like this game, and if I don't play PvP, I'm missing out on my fun. This is why I think the twenty-minute low-priority queue is an unreasonably harsh punishment for abandoning games."

So here's why I think you're wrong:

Play the numbers. You are 1 person, and every game you leave creates a negative experience for at 4-9 people. I really want you to understand this: I would love for you to get to play this game and enjoy it, but not at the expense of everyone you play with.

We really want you to change your situation before you return to public queues. Procure a stable, reliable connection. Have a discussion with your mother - explain to her that League is a live game, that your participation affects other people. Proactively ask her if she needs anything from you before you start, and have her agree not to interrupt you for the game's duration.

If this is impossible - if a stable and reliable connection is outside of your means, if your mother cannot or will not agree to let you fulfill your obligation to your team - you should not play this game. As in find another game to play, because League is not for you.

Your fun is important, but it isn't so important that you'll be allowed to consistently ruin games - even if that's the only way you get to play at all. I know that sounds harsh. I know that's not what you want to hear.

Akaterina7/24/2015, 8:34:23 PM1 votes

That's not always possible, for example people can ping the riot servers perfectly fine right now, but many people are getting network errors when they actually try to play.