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@Riot: You really need to work over the concept of your Low Priority Queue

SaltyToplaneGoat·3/21/2016, 9:38:22 AM·6 votes·2,843 views

This is no thread saying I didn't deserve such punishment, after all I'm guilty of intentional afk. There are some people so toxic you do not want to win a game with, so I decided to do something else instead of wasting my energy for a person I can't stand.

First of all, the misleading name. It's not a queue, it's a time penality. But the idea behind that is reasonable: you made your team waste up to potential 20 minutes until they could surrender - now you're going to sit through those 20 minutes too! (Multiple times ofc for the multiple games you did that).

However, 20 minutes is too much . Not saying that it is too much of a punishment, but that it is so much you can simply do something else during that time with no need to actively pay attention to your punishment.

1st 20 Minutes: I read a manga and waste some time on tumblr, almost forgetting I have the queue on.

2nd 20 minutes: I watch the latest episode of Dimension W (Interesting and unique Sci-Fi series airing this season - lenght: 20 minutes). Generally, every anime and many western shows have an average episode lenght of 20-25 minutes. I could just start marathoning a random series I havn't watched yet with league brakes between the episodes. I wouldn't even notice the punishment anymore xD

3rd 20 minutes: I go grocery shopping (time spend without hurry: 15 minutes)

4rd 20 minutes: I do the dishes then take a long hot shower to relax myself.

5rd 20 minutes: I lurk around on the lol boards, writing posts like this one.

That all is stuff I would have done anyways. Literally all this "punishment" did was to re-arrange the schedule a little.

A true low priority queue has people sitting in front of their desktop for 10 minutes because they don't know when they are being matched and have to accept - and that in a time frame that is still tolerable to make one wait before they stand up and do something else (aka 7-10 minutes). But 20? Lol no. if you really want leavers and afks to go down, you might want to rework this system a little, because right now it doesn't feel any punishimg to me at all ^^

26 Comments

RiotRiot Tantram3/22/2016, 12:10:57 AM11 votes

Have you ever experienced the low priority queue? You are put directly into queue when it is over and if you miss it, you have to sit through the entire 20 minutes again. It also doesn't start at 20 minutes.

I wish I could head the the grocery store, shop and get home before 20 minutes! I'm just jealous.

TNHA Baritone3/21/2016, 10:48:16 AM2 votes

SAME

Sneakos3/22/2016, 1:58:31 PM1 votes

God I hate people like you. Trying to justify afking because "people said mean things to me" is pathetic and inexcusable. If anyone is harassing you, guess what? Mute them. Why the hell would you just up and leave the game, forcing people to waste their time for the next 20ish minutes, and potentially lose elo if its ranked? Guess what? You aren't only affecting the person who was being toxic to you, you are affecting EVERY one of your teammates. Childish and immature.

If you are unable to stay in a league match for the entire duration of it, I suggest you find a different game.

Shanaenae4/4/2016, 12:06:15 PM1 votes

Instead of giving people low priority, why can't you guys just count the match the player has AFK'ed or left or RQ'ed as a loss? I feel like 20 mins is way too much because 20 x 5= 100 mins and you could have probably done like 4 matches with that much time. People who disconnect from games due to sudden lag spikes, or sudden disconnections and are punished with 100mins time penalty is totally unfair, and has happened to a LOT of innocent players (including me). What if the player disconnects, and is not able to get back on because of an unknown error?(someone pulling your plugs, couldnt open PC for some reason, lag, etc.), or what if the player had lag but they disconnect and get punished by the system? This punishment should either be nerfed (intead of giving 20mins, count the match as a loss instead, but only for the afk player) or reduced from 20mins to 5 minutes permanently in my opinion. You could also increase the reconnection timer from 3 minutes to 10 ( I've heard that if you disconnect in a game, you have 3 or 5 minutes to reconnect back or you'll get punished. What I'm saying is to increase this timer so that people may have more time to reconnect and get back in the game).