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Leaver Busters are nonsense.

Lowbrgo·10/20/2017, 1:51:35 AM·2 votes·216 views

So, I get a leaver buster. It says that the client won't launch because of an error on my video card, which doesn't make sense but I just restart my comp asap and then try to reconnect. I reconnect and play. We obviously lose but I did reconnect. I get into the end of game lobby and a leaver buster information pop up comes up. I sigh. And I queue up. So I queue and we join. They dodge and I was looking on my instagram feed and didn't hear the popup. So we wait ANOTHER 20 mins. And I click accept. It is taking a while for it to load and I figure I'll have to click accept again. But it says I declined. And at this point, after waiting 40 mins to play a game, I just want to quit. I think that the queue shouldn't reset. Like why do I have to wait longer because of a bug. I reported the bug, but nothing will happen. I'm super agitated and want some feedback. I just would like some updating to the system, because it isn't really full-proof.

2 Comments

TiltoverEnforcer10/20/2017, 1:58:44 AM2 votes

No, it's not foolproof. But it works, and 20 minutes is not the end of the world. I've been hit by leaverbusters before, whether it was due to having to answer the door, the phone, a video card bug, or whatever it may have been. Riot does understand that these things happen, and sometimes you get a small time in your life where lots of these disruptions occur in a small amount of time, and you get slapped with a leaverbuster. If I recall correctly, the first offense is only 20 minute queues for 5 games. They honestly could suspend you after the first offense, but Riot is rather lenient with their leaverbuster penalties, because they do understand that life and bugs happen.

This all being said, leaverbuster penalties don't happen from the first offense. You must have had a history of leaving games early recently, even if they resulted in a remake.

General Esdeath 10/20/2017, 3:33:49 AM1 votes

You would only wait the other 20 minutes if YOU were the one who dodged. Also, it takes more than one instance for it to happen.