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leavebuster not working properly?

GreenKenny··1 votes·286 views

hey guys. i haven't played lol for more than a year, and a week ago i decided to play a match with a friend. when we started the queue, a pop-up appeared that i left a recent game and i must wait for 20 minutes (which resets if u close the popup). i thought maybe it was a bug, so i waited and played a match. a few days later, same thing happens. is anyone having the same issue? please note, the last time i played lol before those 2 matches, it was when Braum came out i think, and there was no leavebuster, and i'm pretty sure i haven't left a game recently (1 year is more than recent, right?) if anyone is having this issue or knows a fix, please reply. i opened a ticket on this, but riot guy basically copy-pasted me a part from the Leavebuster FAQ, which is not helpful also, if you're gona say leavebuster is flawless and super and that im lying, pls go fuck yourself and don't bother to reply. thanks in advance

8 Comments

Jubbinaut1 votes

I don't think the amount of time since Leaverbuster last detected you leaving is especially meaningful. Rather, I think it's based on the number of games since the last leave it detected.

And Leaverbuster was first implemented almost 4 years ago now - though the way it handled punishments has changed fairly significantly since then.

EDIT: Cleared up a confusing phrase.

GreenKenny1 votes

let me put it this way. if the last few times i played the game and didn't leave, so of course had no problems or bans or cooldowns of any sorts, why should i get 20 minute on every game after more than a year?

Jubbinaut2 votes

{quoted}

let me put it this way. if the last few times i played the game and didn't leave, so of course had no problems or bans or cooldowns of any sorts, why should i get 20 minute on every game after more than a year?

Way back when, Leaverbuster would allow players to rack up leaves until it was ban-worthy, which could take a very long time. This year, Riot adjusted the system to deliver punishments after fewer instances, as well as adding a new type of punishment explicitly for that, called Low Priority Queues.

So, more than likely, the situation you're facing is this: your account was "clean" by the old Leaverbuster standards, but not by the new ones. So, once you began playing again, it recognized the status of the account, and issued a punishment that it deemed appropriate to that status. Thus, you have a series (probably 5 games) of Low Priority Queue games.

GreenKenny1 votes

well thats logical and mayeb its the case. thanks for the reply. but either way, coming back after a year and this? its like having a cooldown for a year, which im pretty sure i dont deserve, assuming i rarely leave games, if its not an emergency. well, this is just another reason to get sick of this game, sadly im not gonna play it i guess

Jubbinaut1 votes

{quoted}

well thats logical and mayeb its the case. thanks for the reply. but either way, coming back after a year and this? its like having a cooldown for a year, which im pretty sure i dont deserve, assuming i rarely leave games, if its not an emergency. well, this is just another reason to get sick of this game, sadly im not gonna play it i guess

Well, good luck wherever you go.

GreenKenny1 votes

i understand what ure saying but srsly? im sure i had no cooldown or bans on my account, but lets say i left a game for the sake of the argument. months have passed,even the freakin map changed , and i have to wait 20 minutes for me to play a game? can anyone confirm this happened to them also and is just a bug or something? i play lol from the gamezone, not from home, so its a pain in the glory hole for no reason to wait 20 mins.

Jubbinaut1 votes

{quoted}

i understand what ure saying but srsly? im sure i had no cooldown or bans on my account, but lets say i left a game for the sake of the argument. months have passed,even the freakin map changed , and i have to wait 20 minutes for me to play a game?

I believe that you had no bans on your account. But, as I said, Leaverbuster now takes action after fewer leaves - so it's more than possible that you had leaves on your account that previously weren't enough to warrant a punishment, but now are.

And, again, the amount of time isn't particularly meaningful, here. Because you have to play games to clean your account up, and you weren't playing any games. Since you weren't playing games, your account status wasn't improving.

GreenKenny1 votes

yeah i get what ure saying. i just think its idiocy, the system. thanks for the help

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