literally your only response to my criticism is 'don't play'. how about this: fuck you.
Not the best way to generate discussion or garner sympathy. If you feel you have valid feedback about something, being an asshole will see your feedback dismissed rather than considered. Whether your opinions differ or not, I think you can appreciate that Deep Terror Nami took the time to give you an extensive explanation of why things are the way they are.
no rebuttal, so you discount the point. kk.
How about this then, not everyone is ranked or nothing, or normals is for casuals only. For the longest time I ONLY played normals, and while I was perfectly happy with the casual part, there is a difference between being casual and picking a dumb support like Liss and screwing over your whole team because you couldn't fulfill a commitment.
Nobody likes a leaver, even in ARAMs which are about as casual as it gets. About the only place people don't care much is in bots, but even there it's a bad experience for any new players involved.
Why should you be allowed to negatively impact 9 other players (from the sounds of it in a lot games you play) while you get off scott free for that?
If you joined a [insert sport here] team and either failed to show up, were late to or had to leave early from most of your practice games in the season, there's no way they'd let you play competitively, and depending on how serious the team was they may kick you out entirely.
tl;dr When it comes to ruining experiences, normals matter just as much as ranked.
the irreparable issues with internet and rito's broken dx11 implementation, its your fault because we got inconvenienced; our digital game was ruined, and to hell with things that matter.. like, say..: work, life, family?
I live in goddamn Australia, I still struggle along with unreliable ADSL2+ internet, and yet I've never been Leaver Bustered. If your internet is bad enough that you are influencing large numbers of players then you either don't play or accept that you are going to be damn near permanently Leaver Bustered. We live with the consequences of our circumstances as much as those of our actions, and we make do. You know, without fucking with other people along the way if at all possible. That's the decent thing to do anyway.
If back in the day there was a game that required higher PC specs than you had, would you blame the company that made the game for not making it low spec enough? Or would you simply accept that it is beyond your reach until something changes like upgrading your pc or such. Sometimes those changes aren't possible, but it doesn't change the reality.
Of course there are things more important than video games, but the vast majority of players seem to balance that just fine, so maybe you should look to your own problems instead of bitching about your inconvenience when you have inconvenienced countless others.
League will shrink if they keep this up
You're welcome to think that, but people have been saying that for years and it hasn't happened yet. If League dies it will be a good while away because of changes to the market (or something more unforeseen like loss of creative control etc), not because of punishing players who are hurting others.
These boards are just like the fanboy reddit threads. down-vote anything you disagree with, ignore the points made and tell them to leave, when that fails, make character attacks, when that fails, revert back to step one, rinse, repeat, until the person who dared speak up gives up or goes away.
...I think maybe you should take a look at your content. You know that saying "you need to take a good, hard look in the mirror"?
"down-vote anything you disagree with, ignore the points made and tell them to leave" " how about this: fuck you."
'you dc a couple times after our game crashes your computer? here, sit in a queue that does nothing for 20 minutes, and don't bother trying to browse the store or chat with your friends
Vast majority of people I talk to have never had a problem with the client, and those that have, are usually fixed in an hour if they bother to try. Maybe accept that it isn't the game/client that is the problem, but rather the game/client + your PC + possibly your internet.
Personally, I disagree with locking players out of client functions while in LPQ, especially those that are queued with the LPQ rather than on it themselves, but ultimately, it is the consequence of your action. Take some responsibility. This is a MULTIPLAYER game, and if you cannot respect the needs and wishes of others even a little bit, then multiplayer really isn't the place for you.
tell them to 'get better interwebz'. see how that goes for ya.
Again, rural Australia here. If my internet is being dodgy, I just don't play. It's really not that hard. Pick up some single player games to play when your net is on the fritz. Really, also not that hard.
99% of the time I don't choose to leave?
Does it matter? Whether you chose to or not, you've had the same impact on those 9 other players. Riot knows that stuff comes up, and if you dc every now and again, you'll never be punished. You have to be leaving quite a few games to be punished for it, especially so if you've made it to 20 min LPQs.
your comment again gives the middle finger to millions of people, because DCs inconvenience you
In a game with millions of people, if frequent leaves were not punished in some way then they would be inconveniencing millions of people. This isn't something specifically targeted at you, rather it is targeted at ALL of those people who frequently ruin the experience of others.
Some people have lives, and maybe only get to play one game a day (funny sounds kinda like you), and the last thing they want for that game is to have it ruined by some asshat who KNOWS he is very likely to DC or have to leave and played anyway, then proceeded to leave.
adding a time penalty to time-restricted people only guarantees they won't play your game
While most games only go for 40~ mins, some can go much longer, and if you are struggling to commit an hour and a bit to a game, then you can't realistically expect to fulfill that commitment anyway, so frankly, you shouldn't be playing, because EVERY.SINGLE.GAME you leave, is a game ruined for NINE other people. One persons inconvenience (yours) does not outweigh the enjoyment of NINE others. Especially if it is happening all the time. 1 is not greater than 9, and 1 is certainly not greater than the x number of people you have screwed over.
its why fast food restaurants have policies like 'the customer is always right', because no matter who was wrong, the worst thing you can do is lose their business permanently.
Except, the worst thing they can do is allow that person to be 'right' and permanently lose the business of every other person they mess with. If it's losing one customer or 20, then from 'a business standpoint' I think we all know who is going to get banned from the store.
Without the players, what does Riot have?
Without the players who negatively affect others, they have 100% positive players who will improve the community and draw more people to the game. Nothing turns people off a game faster than having every match they play ruined in some way or the other.
This logic has been around forever. If you get rot in your grain you can't just leave it, you have to separate it out or it will contaminate ALL of your grain.
