Crashed, Couldn't Launch, Had to Reinstall Game, Now in Low-Priority Matchmaking

[drewjensen2003]

Alright, so full disclosure, I have abandoned matches before. If matches are really really bad, and I know I only have a 15 minute penalty, I have quit before. I don't believe I've ever quit a match before that had more than a 15 minute penalty willingly. Around a week ago I quit a bad match when I had a 15 minute penalty. I went into another match sometime after that, but crashed when I was still in lobby - as the Deadlock loading screen came up to enter the match I crashed. I then got this one bug where the game refuses to launch and just says "downloading content" every time I try to launch. So I had to uninstall and reinstall the game to get it to work again. I came back to a 2/3 hour penalty I can't remember. After that I played the game normally, got off, and everything was fine. Except this crash happened, I believe, two more times after this in the last week. I'm now in low-priority matchmaking and banned until tomorrow at 5:40 pm because of these crashes that make me have to uninstall the game. It's only one match of such based on what my game says, but I'm bringing this to your attention because there's a wider bug at play here that makes the game unable to launch. If that bug can't be fixed, why is there no system to detect when the quit happened? I get it's difficult to tell if a quit was a crash or not, but I never even entered the match. Why are players being penalized when the system could, presumably, autodetect if the match had even begun? If laning hasn't even started yet, penalizing players just seems strange. I totally understand if there's a reason the system can't detect this, just thought I should bring it up here.

 

[BlueShift]

I've had the exact same thing happen to me. Game crashed on me right when they released a bugfix patch and I couldn't launch the game again because it was stuck downloading a new patch, but never seemed to start. However, I didn't wait around either and uninstalled/reinstalled in the hopes I could get back in time, which means that it could just be a steam issue of downloading excessively slowly and I just didn't wait long enough, rather than it being a deadlock-related issue.

Also, they most likely can tell that you never loaded, but they have to have a penalty for this otherwise people would abuse it to dodge matches, especially in high elo, by just having a stream open or a friend in the game to tell you the draft/players and if it's worth connecting. If there was no penalty, or even reduced penalty, you would see a massive uptick in games being dodged.