Why is there not an earlier option for surrender

Dapper Hat·9/28/2016, 9:08:06 PM·8 votes·2,567 views

To say that gameplay is healthy when two teammates leave at 7 minutes and FORCE the other 8 people to play that match for a minimum of another 13 minutes before the option to surrender comes up is awful game design. The excuse "people will abuse it" holds no weight. If that's actually your excuse then it's apparent riot is aware the penalty for leavers and afk players is very lax and easy to be taken advantage of. Either increase the penalty for leaving games and make leavers penalized like you do in remake situations, or give us the option to surrender whenever we want.

15 Comments

RiotMeddler9/28/2016, 10:27:18 PM10 votes

We've been looking at early surrender options a bit recently. There are definitely some games it'd be good to allow people to get out of quicker. At the same time we don't want to create a lot of extra games where some of a team chose to give up too early, when other players are doing well enough it's still a winnable game they want to keep playing. What we're thinking of as a result is testing out an early surrender option, but only if the entire team unanimously agrees to surrender. Something like 100% agreement between minutes 15-20 and then normal surrender rules after that. Ensures that no player gets forced out of a game they want to keep playing, while giving an option for things like the 2 people DC'd for a while case, or the 24 to 0 by 14 minutes game that's effectively decided.

Again, that's something we're interested in testing, probably just in a single region to start with, not a committed plan or anything. There are likely other improvements that could be made to the surrender system to, that looks like one of the clearest wins though, hence work on it being tested first.

Stray Kat9/28/2016, 9:38:46 PM3 votes

IMO, if you lose two teammates at 7 minutes.. There's no reason to be waiting for 20 because any non-braindead opposing team will just walk down mid and eat your nexus - And if you want the game to end sooner, you'll let them. No reason for these people who give up 5 minutes into the game to be able to surrender sooner, though.

Athenes Lulu9/29/2016, 8:01:11 PM1 votes

If not in classic ol' SR, fine. If not in TT.... fine.

At least put them in ARAMs and FGMs.