I will give 200 dollars to any Rioter who can give a good, logical reason

I Kill Commies·8/20/2015, 11:37:28 PM·2 votes·1,255 views

As to why this game should have even started in the first place. Our lucian never connected at the loading screen. He was AFK from minute zero. The game still starts, and we are still forced to play it. At least the enemy team was kind enough to push down mid when we asked them to. If they had decided to farm kills it could have gone on for 20 more minutes...

So like I said. Riot, here's your chance to defend your system. I swear to God, I will mail a check for 200 dollars to any Rioter who can give a single, logical, well thought out, convincing reason as to why this game was allowed to happen. Give one piece of evidence in favor of a system that starts a game knowing that one of the players isn't even there. Explain to me why the game can't simply be aborted once it realizes that a player is not connecting. Go on. Do it.

Oh wait, you can't. Because no good reason exists. It's laziness, plain and simple. A lack of effort to make a system that actually treats its players fairly. I didn't have time for much league today, and the one game I do play is spent sitting at the Nexus, waiting for the enemy team to take our base. Absolutely fucking ridiculous.

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21 Comments

TraakSC8/20/2015, 11:40:10 PM8 votes

RIOT cannot predict if a player is going to come back or not. I've DC'd on load in and immediately logged back in as minions spawned. Unless RIOT can see the future (then they are in the wrong business), there will not be a system that ends games before they start. Besides, people would abuse the hell out of this to dodge games without penalty.

Can I have 200 bucks now?

TraakSC8/20/2015, 11:46:44 PM3 votes

I can't even stand when people leave queue. The other day I had someone leave 5 queues in a row near the last second and now you are suggesting that after a long asa loading screen the game will just abort and I will be back in queue? I'd rather have an AFK than deal with that crap not going to lie.

Back on topic though, this sounds like a slippery slope. What about someone who joins the game but is AFK. What about someone who is AFK after getting first blooded. This would open a can worms brah. Right now the system in place is fair as the AFKer could be on any team. In the long run you should have just as many AFK players as the enemy team does. Unless God hates you of course.

CLG ear8/21/2015, 3:39:21 AM2 votes

Why is this thread being downvoted? It baffles me as well why games start when someone hasn't even gotten 20% into their loading.

I had a game where our caitlyn was 13% loaded and the fucking game started anyway. Thank god she finally did connect, but why did the goddamn game start when clearly someone was not ready? I'd rather it have kicked us back to the main screen than play out a 4v5.

Paero8/21/2015, 12:30:34 AM1 votes

What if, they put in a ready check during fountain time? (you know before you can leave the fountain) and if someone has DCd you can forfeit the match with no records or something?