Well this is akward

Takazaki·Feb 27, 2016·2 votes·618 views

so yesterday i have having trouble with my internet, ended up d/cing from a game for the first 10 mins or so , i come back and play the full duration ( decent amoutn of spikes but minimal disconnections at that point), of course there is always that one salty dude to report me even though i explained i was having issues. whatever.jpg .

so i log into leauge today to find out im in low prioity q, which doesnt make since because i only afk'd from that one match, i was flagged before due to afk's ( due to another internet issue) but that was upwards a year ago, why am i getting punished now for one incedent? ( there were some other times where i d/c'd but i dont think ther\y were to recent and they were FEW and far between because i wont play leauge for a full day after even ping exceeding 150+

I don't believe this is justified, thoughts on the matter and could i get a red opinion on this?

5 Comments

Black k 9Feb 27, 20161 votes

I have the same problem. Huge ping spike, ended up making me not want to play that game. Apparently I disconnected multiple times.

Now I have a 20 minute ban between games. For one incident of bad internet.

Riot needs to fix this.

proud and bronzeFeb 27, 20161 votes

they are going to a 0 tolerance policy on everything. i can only assume they are trying to drive players away. maybe the player behavior and moderation team owns stock in smite?

hi im mintyFeb 27, 20161 votes

It's probably because of all the people crying on the boards about afk's and dc's

A Shy BoxFeb 27, 20161 votes

This happened to me too, but I didn't thought of it as not justified. I accepted it. Why? Yes, it wasn't intentional, but you still wasted 20 minutes of your team mate's time. Feel bad for them, will ya? I'm sure you would hate having afks in your team.

TakazakiMar 10, 20161 votes

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This happened to me too, but I didn't thought of it as not justified. I accepted it. Why? Yes, it wasn't intentional, but you still wasted 20 minutes of your team mate's time. Feel bad for them, will ya? I'm sure you would hate having afks in your team.

The Afking punishment is targeted at intentional leaving, not bad connections, players who rage quit normally have a record of doing so that's why it takes several instances of it to force a punishment. my account had only been flagged before and that was a long time ago, i would understand being flagged again but an outright punishment is a little on the extreme giving my case. it would be a different story if i had 3+ d/c's within a week time span, and on top of that i was disconnected from the get go, not mid match, then played the rest of the match ( as best as i could). this isn't a case of riot punishing a player who intentionally leaves this is the case of riot punishing a player having technical issues which to my knowledge isn't something they would want to do. i'm just stating the case of the punishment seems a little on the extreme side not due to length but how many disconnections it took it actually get punished and the fact i was punished at all given my clean record and playing habits.

Edit:

i'm sure you would hate having afks in your team.

further more, this is just me i will not speak for anyone else or riot's player behavior team, but i personally do not report and will not support the punishment of players having ping/connection issues, i know very well its just as bad for them being as they cannot play the game proper as it is for us as well. its a lose/lose no one has fun with connection issues, so i never complained about players who have had them.