2011-01-19, 05:15 PM
KajitiSouls Wrote:Regardless of why you had to leave, you're ruining the game for up to 9 other people. I don't think the "old" system is going to go away, in fact, you're confusing the two. That's the automated LeaverBuster system which targets leavers (and soon, afkers), not the Summoner Tribunal that is aimed to cut down on the amount of asshats running rampant. The latter one is what the article is talking about.
Personally, having to help your parents with groceries on a rare occasion is forgiveable by me, so long as you explain the situation. It's hella frustrating and demoralizing not knowing if the AWOL player is going to come back or not. But if you have a real emergency after several leaves, serves you right for not having clear priorities, whether it's just you or your parents. And before you ask, I've only had to leave two games in my entire career of 600+ games (my main has 567 games), and that was due to technical difficulties that my crappy laptop was giving me.
Aw, I explain to them. So far in my playing I had to leave twice (although admittedly I only played ~5 hours), and I explained the situation clearly to everyone, and some folks said "meh we can handle it." It's just helluva annoying sometimes because if my mom needs me for like, 5 minutes (this happens surprisingly often), I have to shout back "I'm in the middle of something!" and then she'd storm in and we'd have a big argument and blah blah blah blah. It really sucks that this game really needs 45 minutes of pure devoted attention per session. In Maplestory I could take a break for 5 minutes or so.