AFK (disconnect)'s are making me become toxic. Get them out of my games.

Dear Riot,

I am writing to you on concerns regarding AFK (disconnected) players in my games. I guarantee you... that I was one of many positive players that have played this game. Though now, I am getting hit with way too many AFK players on my team.

I swear to you, I am getting CONSIDERABLY more AFK teammates than at LEAST 80% of other players. I am feeling that with every consecutive AFK player on my team, I become more and more negative. I have gone from sarcasm and passive-aggressive remarks, from a year ago, to now hitting an all-time high of swearing (cursing) in a game I just now finished. I am so constantly angry, that I have even begun an excel spreadsheet for documenting and detailing my every game in regards to AFKs.

According to my documented (214) games:

*Players must be "AFK" for at least 5 minutes to qualify*

47 afks on my team = 21.96 %

18 afks on enemy team = 08.41 %

47 + 18 = 65 , 65 / 214 = 30.37 % of total games with an AFK in them. which is almost 1 out of 3 games

Now for my stats:

I have played since season 1, and have accumulated at least 6,500 games of ranked and normals combined. Out of those 6,500 games, I have Disconnected, or purposely quit, a game approximately 11 times.

11 / 6500 = 00.16% times I have AFK'd.

Being a respectful player, I believe it is a courtesy to the rest of the nine players... to be here and ready to play when I queue up for a game.

Now I don't believe that every player has as much value for other players' time as I do... So I would estimate that they SHOULD be around 3x to 5x more likely to be AFK than I am. Therefore:

11 (AFK games) * 5 (times as likely) = 55 / 6500 = 00.85 % of total games

The more players in a game, the more likely to have 1 AFK player. Therefore:

00.85 % (of total afk games) * 9 (players) = 07.62 % of total games EXPECTED to have an AFK player in them.

07.62 % expected afks vs. the 30.37% that I am now getting... This is FOUR TIMES more AFK games than I SHOULD be getting.

I have questioned MANY of my friends on how many AFK games they get, and I always ask them to estimate high. On average, many of them would say 12-15% of their games have AFKS in them. This is nearly HALF of what I get.

Please... all I want is to have a great player experience like the rest of the community is receiving. I sincerely believe that I am a magnet for all of these AFK players to migrate towards.

What I propose:

You (Riot) did attempt to implement a "low-priority" queue, which places negative players along with other negative players. This worked against the concept of rectifying behaviors rather than blatantly punishing them. Thus, the system was removed.

Perhaps something that records and analyzes each individual player's disconnection rate, and then placing them with players of similar value. This will not only "reward" those players who value the time of the other 9 players, but also "encourages" players to be ready to play in their future games.

This would decrease the amount of players that come back 8 minutes later, saying:

"oh sorry, was on facebook" "oops, was rolling a blunt" "sorry, totally forgot I was in game" "was on youtube, my bad" "had to go to the bathroom, though loading screen would take at least 5 minutes"

...You've heard these excuses before... I know you have..

All that I can say is... I am very tired of AFKs. I am sorry if this post has mistakes or contains too much venting; I just got out of a game with yet another AFK. Please consider what I have written.

Thanks for reading,

-Morale