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Games Over Real Life

BrokenKaos03·2/2/2015, 3:03:14 AM·3 votes·872 views

Hey all, I'm a fairly old player though not the best nor worst. But this post has nothing to do with that really it has to deal with the being reported for afk/leaving/etc that people do from time to time. This is a game and yes a 4 vs 5 is not fair nor cool but it is possible as ive been in a few games where the team i was on did a 4 vs 5 and a few where the other team had 4 and we had 5 and some we lost, some we won. My point is that you can not plan real life, you just cant as the unexpected can happen at any time. When you warn your team that you may go afk because dealing with rl(real life) events then honestly they should respect that enough not to report you. NOw if you do not say anything then yes u should be punished to some extent. Am i saying that nothing should be done to anyone for leaving? no. but i am saying that if u have to go afk and you DO say something that the punishment shouldnt be nearly as severe as it currently is as s**t happens...its called life. and a game never should take priority over real life.Vi

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ValyrianBlade2/2/2015, 3:34:30 AM3 votes

If you're giving warning, you shouldn't be playing. My point being, you're not giving warning for the completely unexpected, you're giving warning for the somewhat possibly expected. It's incredibly selfish to make other people play through an uneven game because you chose to play when you didn't have time.

If you were to say this in champion select, and offer to dodge yourself if anyone is opposed fine. But to say you tell people doesn't mean anything - maybe I just dodged a troll and don't want to dodge again? Or if you're saying it in game, that's WAY too late. At that point I'm already 100% in.

Real life does happen. If something comes up that you had no idea could happen, leave. You'll never get banned if you only leave in these once-per-year or less instances.

When you queue for a game when you're on-call for work? That's your own fault. Queue when you know you need to pick up your kids in 55 min and the game goes that long? Your fault. Queue when your building has a planned power outage during an 8 hour window that day? Guess what, your fault. If you consistently do these types of things, you should get reported and should get banned.

I think the point comes down to this: Leaving a game as an individual comes down to the decision "would I rather finish this, or do that". Let's normalize and say the game is worth 10 to every player, so if anything worth 11 or more to you comes up, you'll leave the game. The problem is, the other 4 teammates, or possibly 9 players, lose 10 and don't get that 11+ you got. The ideal situation would be for players to only leave for events worth 50 or more, so your individual gain outweighs everyone's losses. this is enforced by putting extra penalty on leavers - if you know you'll be banned from playing if you leave, you may only leave for events worth say 30+, meaning all of those 11-29 events that people used to leave for are eliminated at least.

Be considerate. That's what it comes down to. Is whatever you're leaving for worth making 4 other people suffer? Honestly, if it takes even a moment to actually have to consider whether to leave or not, you shouldn't be leaving. and if anything that could make you leave is reasonably expected to happen within 80 minutes, don't queue.

Legostrike2/2/2015, 3:12:28 AM2 votes

Agreed, but beware the oncoming storm. The boards are coming.

AJStarhiker2/18/2015, 7:40:27 AM2 votes

The only time your teammates have any say in whether they're ok with you possibly leaving is in a custom game where everyone has agreed to it ahead of time. If you really, really want to play and don't have friends who are ok with you leave, start a solo custom game and practice last hitting or jungle routes or something.

If you start a game with plenty of time to finish and your computer crashes or the connection goes bad or something, finish out the game (if possible) and don't queue up again until you figure out what the problem is or get a better connection.

I had a game recently that failed to connect due to a firewall problem. I tried to get back in, tried a different computer (was at a gaming cafe with about a dozen machines) and when I ran into the same problem on a different computer, I called it a night and played single-player games the rest of the night. My account never went to low priority, so no. One game won't get you into trouble. You get into trouble when you ignore the warning signs and try to play when you know you are having computer problems.

Jubbinaut2/18/2015, 7:19:07 AM1 votes

Here's the problem I have with this:

If all it takes to avoid the systems designed to deal with leavers is saying "sorry, have to go, rl issues," then the only people who will ever be affected by those systems will be those who disconnect due to situations they can't control (power outages, internet outages, unplanned/intended restarts, etc.). And, frankly, those are the players who should be forced to deal with it the least.