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LeaverBuster is poorly designed.

hi im muting you·7/20/2016, 1:20:56 PM·2 votes·691 views
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What happened: The game begins normally until the first wave of minions arrive in lane. Suddenly, approximately six players disconnect for a period of approximately seven minutes. I reconnect to the game after the time has passed. Fast forward another sixty seconds and I'm disconnected again for a couple minutes. I knew the server was having maintenance and it's a risk I took playing the game. That's fine, it wasn't an issue that the game was interrupted. I reconnected yet again and began to help my team. I pushed top (first time I've ever used tibbers to push a wave) and eventually we were greeted with a victory screen.

This is where the issue arises: LeaverBuster marked me as having left the game or went AFK. And if I was marked, I wouldn't be surprised if at least bard and graves were marked too (Taliyah and Xin Zhao were red named). Why are systems of a billion dollar gaming company so poorly designed? Why does the system not take into account the fact that A.) Maintenance is occuring -- and B.) Multiple players from opposing teams disconnect? The system should have SOME sort of AI as opposed to some arbitrary rule where you were disconnected for X so get screwed.

Am I crazy?

18 Comments

Nahui7/20/2016, 3:53:20 PM4 votes

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Halla7/20/2016, 1:39:56 PM2 votes

Hah. I just got a warning after I stayed to the very end of a game which 3 other people left, quit normally when the defeat message came up, and then had the servers crash on me before I could report the troll-party. I have never typed in a message with more salt. I was one of two damn people who didn't leave, Riot.

Spoon4087/20/2016, 2:13:24 PM1 votes

You were afk and leave bust got you. See no flaw there.

Was a problem on Riot side, well that's not cool, but as you stated you knew that there were issues on Riot servers and you decided to risk either way.

Dragfin7/20/2016, 2:19:52 PM1 votes

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What happened: The game begins normally until the first wave of minions arrive in lane. Suddenly, approximately six players disconnect for a period of approximately seven minutes. I reconnect to the game after the time has passed. Fast forward another sixty seconds and I'm disconnected again for a couple minutes. I knew the server was having maintenance and it's a risk I took playing the game. That's fine, it wasn't an issue that the game was interrupted. I reconnected yet again and began to help my team. I pushed top (first time I've ever used tibbers to push a wave) and eventually we were greeted with a victory screen.

This is where the issue arises: LeaverBuster marked me as having left the game or went AFK. And if I was marked, I wouldn't be surprised if at least bard and graves were marked too (Taliyah and Xin Zhao were red named). Why are systems of a billion dollar gaming company so poorly designed? Why does the system not take into account the fact that A.) Maintenance is occuring -- and B.) Multiple players from opposing teams disconnect? The system should have SOME sort of AI as opposed to some arbitrary rule where you were disconnected for X so get screwed.

Am I crazy?

You get that warning even if it's the first time you went afk. If you don't afk frequently then you have nothing to worry about. Those people that do afk frequently however need to be banned and not leaverbusted.

Zielmann7/20/2016, 2:41:20 PM1 votes

Well, since it was just a warning, you could actually look at this as a good sign. It means it's the first time you've done this, so it's not like you have a history of leaving games or anything like that. Keep that up and you'll be fine, even if you do have occasional disconnects outside of your control.

That said, I do think it would be acceptable for them to turn off leaverbuster during periods of maintenance where they know server instability is likely to occur (which they basically said about this maintenance window).

Xidphel7/20/2016, 7:35:02 PM1 votes

Heimerdinger you are poorly designed for this.