Did NOT Deserve LeaverBuster - Carried Game to Win after computer crashed

HIVAndSyphillis·4/24/2016, 3:20:14 PM·2 votes·649 views

I was 5-1 in lane as vlad, computer force restarted (prior to this game I had the "possible data corruption" bug and forced to "repair" game btw). Got back in game within 5 minutes, CONTINUED to carry game to a WIN. Nobody on either team complained about me. My team was simply happy I was back. How does THIS deserve a leaverbuster?? I thought Riot was here to research and determine the best course of actions for gameplay and situations such as this. I guess not???

13 Comments

Kei1434/24/2016, 5:31:46 PM2 votes

carrying and winning a game does not give you a "I shall not be punished" card.

same goes to buying RP.

But if you are getting low priority queues for this, it'll mean you"ve left / AFK games more than you should recently.

HIVAndSyphillis4/24/2016, 6:05:43 PM1 votes

You'd think ... similar to driving ticket or building credit ... that after a decent time of good sportsmanship and no leaves (game crashes, etc) that the penalty would be less harsh. But of course, riot doesn't track that. Only what's convenient for them aka less time spent on configuration and hardening. "Oh it works .. ok we're done now". Shit doesn't work that way in the real world ...

ValyrianBlade4/24/2016, 3:30:10 PM1 votes

Did you get a ban or anything? I doubt it, it sounds like you just got the message asking you not to leave, and were told you weren't eligible for hextech rewards from that particular game.

Which is what LeaverBuster does. It tracks how often stuff like this happens. It also warns you each time it has registered that you did something. This isn't a problem for most players - I've had two leaver penalties in about 2 years of playing:

  1. A real-life emergency happened during a normal game and I absolutely had to deal with it
  2. I was playing my first game after a patch update (also a normal) and I was getting insane ping spikes (3000 ping, my normal ping is 26-27 and it stays like that all game), I told my team I was going to restart and be back in 2 minutes, and for some reason League tried to re-download the patch I had just downloaded again! So it took me like 15 minutes to get in at which point my team had just voted to surrender.

Both times I got the message, but I've never received any penalty. Of course not. 2 leaves in 2 years is nothing, it's perfectly acceptable. Shit happens - houses catch on fire, significant others get in car accidents and are at the hospital, power goes out and computers shut down, etc...

The point I'm making here is that while this registered as one leave, you have NOTHING to worry about if you don't leave games willingly and regularly. As long as you play out the huge majority of the games you start, you'll never receive any kind of punishment for leaving.

Classic WoW soon4/25/2016, 11:15:48 AM1 votes

no clue why this subreddit likes to downvote legit topics like this.

Fovere4/25/2016, 4:34:58 PM1 votes

As someone who somewhat regularly leaves games and gets slapped with leaverbuster, it usually takes a few d/cs in a concentrated period of time for the system to take notice.

I'd find it difficult to believe someone who plays regularly had a temporary d/c in a single game and got a 20 minutes queue penalty for it.

HIVAndSyphillis5/14/2016, 5:41:40 PM1 votes

Fuckin ridiculous .. it's basically to the point now where ANYTIME I have a connection issue whether it be my fault or not, I'm going to have to play 5 games of a million minute queue times. Yes, it's that fucking long. 20 minutes then if someone doesn't accept game, who KNOWS how long til u find another match. I haven't left a game for 20 days (about 2-3 games per day) and now I'm stuck in this bullshit again? Might as well be fucking banned .. same shit. People pay money to play a game and then get punished for something beyond their control for it. Least they could do is compensate the money you put into your own damn account. Riot's really gonna be fucked when someone decides to take this shit to the next level, smdh.

HIVAndSyphillis4/24/2016, 6:55:07 PM1 votes

As if things weren't already bad enough, 2 game after a 20 minute queue and we have a fucking raka with a toaster for a computer who literally doesn't connect all game.