uhh wtf is going on? my team was picking fine then this. now i have to win 3 games before ranked for nothing? wtf
i even had a hero selected that i did not own, my team was fine with me being the last pick and had selected 2 heroes but not locked in yet. once timer hit 0 it kicked me out… this game not worth my time, cya
Bye. You will not be missed.
rude 20characters ok
So you did nothing during the draft phase and the game kicked you for doing nothing , working as intended.
Okay bye bye baby
So what you’re saying is that you were not ready to select a hero?
Got it.
If they had their picks, and you had yours, and they were fine with you being last pick… Why in the world did they not lock in?
Which probably is what ended up getting you kicked (game checks, sees no one has picked, randomly tries to get two people to pick… one of them has an invalid hero, they are booted).
Now, I think that the game should (if it does not and you do indeed have the whole truth in your post) do is if there are enough people with valid heroes who can be locked, lock them before disbanding draft by kicking someone.
But, I think the game does that… Because it doesn’t kick people who don’t have heroes selected at all when randomly picking.
Normally its 1 leaver game. Must have happend again so you got 3. Stop playing the victim suck it up and dont afk during matches
Wow. What the hell is going on with so many forum impersonators lately? Hoooh…
Everyone here will just call you out.
Untill it happens to them.
Oh, and it will happen to them.
It was a bug, a lot of the people here have no clue how the system works. At worst I should have received a random hero. Might be a glitch cause I switched from my hero to an unowned hero at the last sec. Either way it was the second round of picks and the 3 of us remaining all had picks shown. Definite bug.
no, pretty sure it was not.
If you don’t have a hero selected, it will kick you.
If you have an invalid hero selected, it will kick you.
What’s the bug?
And hence kick the person who was unaware enough to pick or have a valid hero selected, creating an even worse environment/overall experience for 9 other players.
By doing what that, it might actually give all 10 people a sub-par experience. It might not. PERSONALLY I would rather requeue than have someone play a hero they don’t know how to play but own in ranked.
That’s why it happened, but that isn’t a glitch.
It’s intended.
now this part of it, could be a glitch. provided the other two people had valid heroes selected. In which case I would agree on that part being a bug.
But given the game correctly works if two people have different valid heroes selected and others have no hero selected, it seems like it wouldn’t work as you describe.
based on… your thoughts of how it should work?
Report it as a bug in Bug Report and if it is a bug–cool, we’ll know.
But I suspect it is not, at least in terms of kicking someone who has an invalid/no hero selected, instead of giving them a random hero.
It seeing you had a not-okay hero selected and kicking you when two people on your team who had not locked both had separate valid heroes… that would be a bug.
The game normally force picks on whoever has selected a valid hero first.
No it doesn’t. Source: I hover banned/not-owned heroes all the time to force auto-lock onto someone else when I’m picking late. If no one else is hovering then it will pick a random hero for you, it only kicks you if you weren’t hovering anything.
The OP has been vague and unable to confirm that the two people on his team had valid heroes locked.
Or they both had the same Hero.
Or one also changed to try to avoid auto-lock.
I know it used to, but i’m pretty Sure that is not the case anymore.
I’ll see how custom draft interacts with that.
Its ok Jamuro, they have their opinion and then there is fact. Let em have this.
It was very clear in the 2nd post… 2nd round, 2 heroes already locked, 3 heroes showing and last sec me turning to a unowned hero to make sure those 2 lock and not me. Then bam pts lost and leaver games. That is not how it works. Lets hope they did not change anything or many people will learn this harsh lesson.
No, it doesn’t work like that
Let me bring out the quote:
If you are hovering or pre-selecting a Hero that is not available to be locked in when the timer runs out, the draft is ended and leaver penalties are given.
Yes, that is exactly not how it works. Which is why it seems very odd that it did work like that. Which probably means that you were incorrect, or did not tell the full story, or most likely, someone else tried to force you and other person to lock in at the last second also!
Nope, you never confirmed that the two heroes that they showed were valid heroes to lock.
Or if they switched at the last second also.
Also, HOW ABOUT YOU FILE A BUG REPORT ABOUT IT IF IT IS A BUG?
Good thing the game kicked you , like it is a good thing for your teamates that you hovered whatever so that the game would pick a random hero and you gave no care about it.
Hope it is not a bug.
Prove it, because it does work like that, i do it every game 
Well, it was just Heroes of the Storm QA telling someone who was reporting it kicking them as a bug.
I’m not sure what more proof you want.
please read both posts by Huginncord in that thread before dismissing it as a Cho’Gall thing.
I’m not disputing that it will lock other players if they have valid choices, skipping you.
I’m stating it will not random you a hero and will kick you if you are the last person or pair of people who needs to have a valid pick selected and you do not.
But this here is wrong:
And if it is doing that for you, it is a bug.