How does punishing someone for twenty minutes queue time help them improve?

SuperJediNinja·Sep 13, 2015·1 votes·279 views

I guess it depends on how much you like the game I guess.... I personally feel like Rito just wants you to quit.

4 Comments

RyzeReworkSep 13, 20151 votes

Well if ur leaving and afking and u wanna play a game I think 20 min queues are reasonable

SmokedAlmondsSep 13, 20151 votes

Well, they want you not to leave games and presumably people don't want to wait 20 minutes to play. So if you don't want to wait 20 minutes to play you can't leave games frequently.

They chose things like chat restrictions and low priority queue over bans because it makes you experience the punishment not just go play a different game or goto a different account(since they are free its easy). Basically "go play your 2nd favorite game for a while" is a pretty weak punishment.

If the only 2 options were a player leaving games constantly or them quitting then I'm pretty sure riot would choose them quitting, but really they would rather convince you not to leave.

SuperJediNinjaSep 13, 20151 votes

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Well, they want you not to leave games and presumably people don't want to wait 20 minutes to play. So if you don't want to wait 20 minutes to play you can't leave games frequently.

They chose things like chat restrictions and low priority queue over bans because it makes you experience the punishment not just go play a different game or goto a different account(since they are free its easy). Basically "go play your 2nd favorite game for a while" is a pretty weak punishment.

If the only 2 options were a player leaving games constantly or them quitting then I'm pretty sure riot would choose them quitting, but really they would rather convince you not to leave.

I've once gotten one of these priority queue times because my internet turned off mid game.....

On my main I recently left one game out of ten (Something came up IRL) and I was already useless and we were already losing so it really shouldn't be that big of a deal.

SmokedAlmondsSep 13, 20151 votes

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I've once gotten one of these priority queue times because my internet turned off mid game.....

On my main I recently left one game out of ten (Something came up IRL) and I was already useless and we were already losing so it really shouldn't be that big of a deal.

Neither of those were(should have been) for a single game. Yes you will receive your punishment after a leave, but the punishment is for more than that 1 leave. It is for crossing over into leaving an unacceptable percentage of your games.

Side note, nothing that is happening in the game makes it acceptable to leave. Although I do wish they would make an exception for games that already has someone afk.