Can we agree that the Leaverbuster system punishes more innocent people than guilty ones?

Mattmanganon·9/24/2016, 1:30:57 AM·4 votes·524 views

Seriously, I play casually, but a lot of my friends that play it religiously also agree that the Leaverbuster is killing it for them.

See, we live in the countryside where Internet is not the most stable thing. If it drops for so much as a minute, we get punished. The other day, my friend was playing it, I unplugged what I thought was the cordless phone charger and was actually the internet box because I was trying to find somewhere to plug the hoover in. Immediately plugged it back in when I realized what I had done. He was gone for 2 minutes and got thrown onto the leaverbuster system. The only lesson that taught him was that the leaverbuster system is less a means of punishing guilty people and discouraging them and more a means of cutting costs on moderators. About a year ago, my internet was on the fritz and I got a warning about DQing. It finally started going fine, when one of my fuses blew because my room mate plugged a cheap chinese charger for his mobile and we had to flip the breakers. I was AFK for 5 minutes and was banned for a week, the 1 week I had off, I may add.

Now, this system would be tolerable if it wasn't for the "No appeal" system that means "We don't care if it was due to circumstances out of your control, it's still all your fault." And until they change it, I will refuse to believe that it is anything other than a cheap means of not paying for actually fair moderation, you know, like most decent online games like TF2, Overwatch, WoW and stuff like that have. To quote Ben Franklin "it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer." (Only this time, it's better that 1 guilty man should escape than 100 should suffer) And the real kicker of this situation? I don't even play ranked matches, so nobody really cares if they have a bad game in unranked mode. But the punishment is just as severe. It should go back to the report system, where, at the end of the match, the players should get to decide whether the person deserves to be punished.

Please, RIOT, I love your game, but this system is really killing my ability to enjoy it. Mainly because I know that i'm going to get banned at some point and i'm going to have literally no say in the matter. My net drops 1 time too often and that's it, i'm as guilty as anybody that deliberately trolls the game.

14 Comments

oSEXYPLATYPUSo9/24/2016, 1:33:02 AM3 votes

leave buster punishes people who leave games... so any one who leaves a game for whatever reason it may be is punished i think its accurate

Deep Terror Nami9/24/2016, 1:34:46 AM3 votes

If you are unable to secure a stable connection, that doesn't mean Riot needs to stop punishing you, it means you should do something about it or not play for the time being. You are hurting the experience for several other players when this happens, which is why you are held responsible to take action whether it's intentional or not.

BlueThingamajig9/24/2016, 3:15:31 AM3 votes

Does leaverbuster punish innocent players?

Well, not really. I mean, it probably punishes more people who have connection issues than intentional leavers. However, playing with a shit connection that regularly turns games into a 5v4 is not OK. At a certain point, you damn well know your connection is garbage, and deliberately playing is basically the same as intentionally leaving/afking

Murdercap9/24/2016, 1:36:51 AM1 votes

Two minutes is a lot of time in a league game. Lots of things can change in those two minutes.