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