LeaverBuster a bit too severe?

GloriousMustache··4 votes·483 views

Well, I'm a long time playing League player. started enjoying it casually around S2, then more seriously around Season 3.

Never have I been Banned/placed on lower priority or chat banned before, Never.

I recently took a somewhat long break from League, due to boredom and other stuff.

Coming back into teh game hyped to play and stuff, my very first game I get to have to disconnect due to IRL emergency.Stuff happen, we all know it. Keep in mind, I have not played a single league game since most likely patch 4:20, and we are at 5:18 the time speaking of this.

So my next game the day afterwards, I get a lower priority Queue timer for 5 games, 10 minutes each. All in all, I think it is a really great initiative, as leavers often impact game in such a negative way, especially on the ranked scene. But I will be honest I found it a bit hard on me, as a first offense in SOOO long, but I swalloed the pill and played thru the 5 games without further incident.

Now, I maybe played up to 10 games without a Lower priority Queue. again, without an incident. That was until my last game. Game crashed on loading screen, no biggie, I start the launcher to get the message that some files might be corrupted and gets prompted to repair it.wich I do.

Process take roughly 5 minutes, then I rush back into the game, goes on to apologise to teammates and proceed to win.

Only to find out while queuing for my next game, wich is like, right now, that I am placed back into a Queue, but this time of TWENTY minutes, again for 5 games!

My issues here is as goes.

I didnt get any incident for a good 15-20 games all in all, including teh ones on the 10 minutes Queue.

I managed to reconnect to the game that I had to repair, and altho teh early phases of the game might have been a bit harder for my team,I still connected for over 75% of the game. so Why a leaverbuster there?

Also, I do get that repeated offenses should be punished accordingly, but having to sit for 20 minutes before even being in queue, then playing a game that can last up to an hour, add to this the ban/select phases of ranked play, I think it might be a bit too much.

This is basically my toughts, maybe some riot memeber will read it, maybe not, I just felt I should share these with teh community and see what comes out as well, because in teh end, if the post gets massive feedback about Leaverbuster being a bit too severe, Riot might be inclinded to change it a bit. After all, we the players, make the game what it is! :)

10 Comments

SmokedAlmonds2 votes

The system is looking at % of games you leave so time is not a factor. If you left a game and didn't play for a year it would be the same as if you left the last game you played yesterday.

25% is an absurdly high percentage of games to leave and 10, 20, 30 games is not a long time to go without leaving. If everyone left even 10% of their games there would essentially never be a game that is 5v5 start to finish.

GloriousMustache1 votes

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The system is looking at % of games you leave so time is not a factor. If you left a game and didn't play for a year it would be the same as if you left the last game you played yesterday.

25% is an absurdly high percentage of games to leave and 10, 20, 30 games is not a long time to go without leaving. If everyone left even 10% of their games there would essentially never be a game that is 5v5 start to finish.

Totally understand and agree, but still the point stands where, the sample of games is so small compared to the actuall sanction, not to mention that the last game i Was afk for a huge 5 minutes due to a system repair. But yeah I understand and agree that even 10% of games is still a high amount.

SmokedAlmonds1 votes

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Totally understand and agree, but still the point stands where, the sample of games is so small compared to the actuall sanction, not to mention that the last game i Was afk for a huge 5 minutes due to a system repair. But yeah I understand and agree that even 10% of games is still a high amount.

Id say the punishment was appropriate.

Also you mention that you had never had LPQ before but 10 isn't the first tier punishment.

The punishments can be pretty harsh, but so are the effects of leaving. Its just more incentive to keep your nose clean in the future.

GloriousMustache1 votes

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Id say the punishment was appropriate.

Also you mention that you had never had LPQ before but 10 isn't the first tier punishment.

The punishments can be pretty harsh, but so are the effects of leaving. Its just more incentive to keep your nose clean in the future.

Well all in all, I left 1 game only since I started playing league again. Of course there might be the run to the toilet fast cause redBulll OP while in game, but this never takes over 3 minutes.

So, Like I said, I totally understand your point of view and Riot one as well.But I think that the system also base itself on one being afk or not, is kinda hard on the players since it does not seem to take into account the time afk, say one goes to bathroom, afk warning pop 5 seconds before said person comes back to Keyboard,LeaverBuster counts it toward a AFK, wich is actually not right

SmokedAlmonds1 votes

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Well all in all, I left 1 game only since I started playing league again. Of course there might be the run to the toilet fast cause redBulll OP while in game, but this never takes over 3 minutes.

So, Like I said, I totally understand your point of view and Riot one as well.But I think that the system also base itself on one being afk or not, is kinda hard on the players since it does not seem to take into account the time afk, say one goes to bathroom, afk warning pop 5 seconds before said person comes back to Keyboard,LeaverBuster counts it toward a AFK, wich is actually not right

Depending on the timing being gone for even a few seconds can completely throw a game. Going to the bathroom during a game is going AFK. I'm not sure how you can say its not.

People need to pay better attention to things that interfere the game, for any amount of time, because it effects other people. People shouldn't have to fight an uphill battle because someone couldn't figure out when they need to go to the bathroom.

GloriousMustache1 votes

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Depending on the timing being gone for even a few seconds can completely throw a game. Going to the bathroom during a game is going AFK. I'm not sure how you can say its not.

People need to pay better attention to things that interfere the game, for any amount of time, because it effects other people. People shouldn't have to fight an uphill battle because someone couldn't figure out when they need to go to the bathroom.

Yea, because people can actually predict when they will have to take a piss, or have a phone call to answer. I get your logic, but it's inflexible as can be on my point of view.

SmokedAlmonds1 votes

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Yea, because people can actually predict when they will have to take a piss, or have a phone call to answer. I get your logic, but it's inflexible as can be on my point of view.

You should be able to predict if you have to pee in the next 1 hour.

You are right that you can't necessarily predict a phone call, but that's your responsibility, not the rest of the players in your game. If you have to take it then take it, but you are doing so at other peoples expense. It shouldn't be ignored just because it was important to you.

They don't punish for individual leaves, but rather having an unacceptable rate of leaving games. If things are causing you to leave games enough to get punished then you need to be changing that before you queue again.

Everyone has their own shit. If everyone let that effect others in the game then no one would ever be able to enjoy it.

Icestar11861 votes

You may want to take a look at your spelling.

GloriousMustache1 votes

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You may want to take a look at your spelling.

Tell me again how many languages you fluently speak and write in?

Thanks for the precious insight.

Icestar11861 votes

One. I take it that English is not your first language then? You could just say so.

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