AFK/leave the game

Vexien··1 votes·525 views

Dear RIOT I have big question. Why when someone is AFKing or leaving the game and this is the main reason for lose of the game I have to lose points in ranked games? I lose and probably many others peoples tones of ranked points just because someone decided to leave the game. I understand that sometimes 4v5 is possible to win but most cases and up with lost. How about when someone is afking or leaving the game from instance he/she gets -100 ranking points and one "permanent strike" to be downgraded in league (strikes can reset after 30 days of no afk/leave) and rest of the people will have unaffected rating (also winning team will not get + rating points to make it fair or half of the normal gain). I believe that this is one of the reasons that there are good players in lower leagues and they can't go up because of afkers. I personally had 10 in a row loses and all of them were cuz of afkers. Once they leave the game it destroys morals. So at the end full team get easy win, team with afkers get slowly lose cuz sometimes they need to w8 before surrender. I believe that AFKers and Leavers should be more penalized for it. It is worst part of the game.

2 Comments

Iabusemyminions1 votes

Because disconnect once due to ISP mistake and EFF YOU, right?

JRobin311 votes

Technically, AFKs don't keep you from climbing. They just make it so you climb slowly. In some cases, very slowly. Chronic AFKs are already pushed towards a lower ranking because they tend to lose LP from being AFK. Giving them even more LP loss will just make the situation in lower ranked games worse.

We don't need Gold level players hanging out in Bronze V because of AFKs! A good way to deal with AFKs is the timer system applied by Leaver Buster which forces Chronic AFKs to wait before they can play again. In this way, players that don't AFK get to play more than players that AFK (regardless of their rank).

RIOT isn't interested in increasing a Prisoner Island effect in lower ranks. And this is a very important reason not to punish player behaviors with rank loss (poor behaviors already lose games anyways, so RIOT doesn't need to give them rank loss). This is why player punishments have to take the form of restricted access to the game.

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