Leave Buster

Psycho1588·Feb 19, 2017·1 votes·761 views

So 20 minutes ban for games because I have a life. I got an importation phone call from a collage I want to get into so i had to stop the game and the phone call dragged out for like 10 minutes. I came back into the game and it turned into a 50/50 match that we later lost. I was playing with my friends and they knew why i left so they didn't report me. So is that how Riot punishes people for having a life instead of only playing their game I'm sorry that your game isn't the most importation thing in my life but Jesus a 20 minute leave buster don't you think it's a bit much even tho the team knew i was gone and I gave a clear reason to why I was gone. So what is the point of it. Also it wasn't even a ranked game it was normal. I understand if it was a ranked game then yes I would accept the leave buster but what annoys me is that it was just a normal.

5 Comments

Chibi ZephyrFeb 19, 20172 votes

Um, if 20 minutes is alot to you, what would you define as appropriate? I was permabanned for flamming a toxic player without any previous punishments on my account. THAT I might consider overkill, but 20 minutes? That's not a ban, that's BARELY a suspension. That's like, "Hey don't do that again"

Psycho1588Feb 19, 20171 votes

20 minutes is a lot of time for me because i don't get to play the game a lot so I like to have fun with my friends but i left the game for not even full 10 minutes and i get a 20 minute punishment. I don't think that's fair

Chibi ZephyrFeb 19, 20171 votes

Forgive me as I'm ignorant to how much experiance you have with the game, but any player worth their salt will tell you a player being afk for 10 minutes will almost always decide the game. If it's considered wasting 9 other players time, and each player wasted 40 minutes, it could be said you wasted a combine total of 6 hours of other players time. Granted for perfectly understandable reasons, but in the professional world, intentions and reasons don't matter very often, only the end result. And the end result is, riot saying that you can't play again for 20 minutes after having wasted 6 hours of total time, is reasonably reasonable. I personally don't think that there should be a penalty for a single afk, but I don't make the rules and riot is cracking down hard since last December.

Magical PlayerFeb 19, 20171 votes

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20 minutes is a lot of time for me because i don't get to play the game a lot so I like to have fun with my friends but i left the game for not even full 10 minutes and i get a 20 minute punishment. I don't think that's fair

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201752714-LeaverBuster-FAQ the above link is very useful to someone like yourself

Just my opinion You don't get a 20 min leaver buster for leaving 1 game, you get it for leaving many games The "I have a life" rationale is not good to have, the other 9 players also have lifes, you directly affected their time So You value your life over someone elses......

ZombiemasterFeb 19, 20171 votes

While it does suck that this happened, something to understand about Leaverbuster is that you don't get punished for a single leave, especially the 20 minute punishment. Riot certainly understands that League is only a game, and sometimes real life things can happen that pull us away from a match in progress, so they designed Leaverbuster with some leniency so that you don't get punished for a single leave or two every once in a while. You only get punished when you show a habit of leaving multiple games.

Now, for your specific case, the fact that you have the 20 minute punishment means that you have been punished by Leaverbuster before, as it is not given out as a first punishment. You need to have gone through the 5 minute and 10 minute punishments first before reaching the 20 minute one, which means that you have already shown a habit of leaving many games in the past. Your past leaves and punishments were taken into consideration for this particular leave/punishment.