Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30558809-20170209054357/@comment-25646419-20170210042309

If a player wants to leave the game, they will leave the game with or without a button. With the button in place, the player is warned about what will happen if they leave the match. Before BMG implemented a leave button, players were timed out for five minutes if they left a match while alive. Soooo many people whined about waiting a measly five minutes. This was only to be a little fix until BMG improved their system to what the current system is. And I gotta say, I think it's kind of fair. It's highly annoying when people leave games, but some of them genuinely have internet connectivity issues every now and then. If it's a frequent issue, it's definitely the player's fault, but many do experience a bump every now and then. The new system allows them to have a chance to fix their issue. With that said, if someone clearly left the game because they didn't like their role, you absolutely can report them for gamethrowing, especially if it is a Ranked match.

Below is how the current leaver buster system works:

Your 1st-2nd leaves are freebies Your 3rd leave gives you a 5 minute timeout Your 4th leave gives you a 30 minute timeout Your 5th-9th leaves give you a 1 hour timeout Your 10th+ leave gives you a 24 hour timeout

Every 10 games it removes 1 strike and it resets every 7 days.

This system will be much more punishing to constant leavers, but much less punishing to players with the occasional disconnect.

With this came the leave game button which lets players leave a game without refreshing, or restarting their clients. If you leave a game while alive, you will still incur the above penalties even if you use the leave game button, this just allows dead players an easier way of exiting the game.