This just happened to me. Feels incredibly bad.
I have left ONE game in my entire life deliberately (yesterday?) because our team was 1:40 KDR and screaming at me in voice chat. I was banned for ... 15 minutes? Understandable and fair.
Today I had a sick 4 week old kitten poop on me, and needed to take care of it. I used my pause, hid at spawn, but got d/c'd because of AFK. When I rejoined, immediately after the AFK disconnect, I played out the match, farmed up, and we WON. An enemy even d/c'd!
As soon as the game finished, I was immediately banned for 6 hours.
6 hour ban for my 2nd D/C ever, for a legit reason? When I came back and finished the game?
I have played out so many games we had NO chance of winning, just so I wouldn't start incurring leaver penalties. I have had countless games ruined by leavers. But the one time I need a few minutes, I get screwed for half a day?
Fix your leaver timers to escalate reasonably. Just double the timer every time, and reduce it by 1/2 after a certain number of completed games. Or don't penalize people so much who leave games then reconnect and play them to the end. Or have an in-game appeals process. Or some kind of transparency.
Aside from the usual MOBA shenanigans, this is the first thing that has made me not want to continue playing this game, and spend my time doing something else.
15 mins x 24 = 6 hours.
6 hours x 24 = 6 days
Am I going to get banned for 6 days the next time I D/C by accident? If that happens, I'm probably never coming back to this game.
Match ID: 42387157
