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It's time to change League's AFK issue. For good.

Roxie·4/26/2019, 9:10:42 PM·12 votes·8,833 views

Today was the last straw for me. As a veteran of this game, having played for over 10 years with multiple accounts ranking from Plat 4 - Diamond 3, I've had it with the countless AFKers I've dealt with in this game. And so has the community that I have played with.

I love the changes that LOL has implemented, especially the new vote system at the beginning of the game where if you have an AFK, you can vote to end the game after 3 minutes. It's a great system, but it doesn't help when the player themselves actually plays the game for X amount of time and then decides to leave. If anything, it is more detrimental to the players having to play with this person than it is the person who AFKs.

What happened and what I see could be changed: Today I had a player who played for 5 minutes. This person lost 1 v 1 top as FIora to a Yorick. Literally 1 death. This person immediately leaves the game and doesn't return, leaving us to fight 4v5. Don't get me wrong, I have dealt with 4v5's that I have won and with this team it would have been easy if it weren't for the split pushing Yorick or the split pushing Heimerdinger on their team. It was too devastating for the team composition that we had. We won team fights, we lost to split push. Simple as that.

To me, the system for AFK's where you can vote at 3 minutes is great, but there needs to be a new vote system implemented into the game if a player doesn't play for 5 minutes. If they're in the base, a new vote needs to come up where we can vote on it and not be able to lose LP. The fact that this game has been out for 10 years and doesn't have an AFK system like this is horrible, in my honest opinion. I see more people who AFK after playing this game than I do people who start a game, don't leave base at level 1, and then we get the chance to vote. This needs to be changed, and soon. Too many people have lost LP and demoted because of players who rage and decide to leave. I've even seen so much as players do really well in a game, but because of 1 misplay, this user starts to become toxic, feed, or just trolls their team by leaving even though they were carrying the team. I know this game is hard, I know it's stressful, but this is too harmful to the other 4 players.

Please, Riot employees. I understand how hard it is to come up with coding for this game. But 10 years is a long time and it has been a necessary voting system that has been needing to be implemented into the game. As a veteran of the community, I am not only speaking for myself but also for the wonderful team mates I had today that were really kind (unusual for a 4v5 game where players usually fight against each other on their team and take out the stress of fighting 4v5 on each other). Please fix this. Please add this new system to league. I am willing to help Riot development team by asking for people to take surveys, linking it to everyone after game if I have to. But it needs to be fixed.

Lulu _ TL;DR: I had a game where a player left after 1 death. We weren't able to surrender without loss of LP because they played then AFK'd. I feel league needs a new AFK report system & surrender vote for players who leave after playing._

44 Comments

Shiroe Okazaki4/26/2019, 10:20:24 PM2 votes

They should change it to cast a vote 3-5 minutes after someone goes afk. If they don't come back your team can remake. something like that. But i think they don't want to because then. If your team is losing hard then someone can afk and no one gains LP or losses LP. I think 3 min ff good 9 min ff good 15 min ff lose lp.

GalaxyKingMorde4/26/2019, 10:54:53 PM2 votes

I have been experiencing this, in the Silver 2 MMR, I have been getting a lot of Afk in my games. I'm still playing for 9 years straight and once October it will be 10 years for me. But Besides that, I have to agree on that the Voting System needs to change or At least the people who AFK should lose Mass amount of LP for making the game difficult for his Teammates, so it will show them not to do that, also On top of that they'll get a LeaverBuster Punishment. People like this get away with it. Riot really needs to fix the system so we can have a fair and balanced game that punish people who leave games because they can't control their own behavior and actions.

rtbf2476264234/27/2019, 2:11:28 PM2 votes

try dota's fix for afks. In dota while it's 4v5 the other 4 players get increased gold income and bonus XP to keep up with the full enemy team, and if the afk doesn't return after 5 minutes ingame they are immediately punished

Mavëríck4/26/2019, 11:50:25 PM2 votes

The simplest answer is to give loss prevention or heavily reduced LP loss for a team with a blatant leaver/dc while giving the leaver heavier losses in LP or an our right demotion.

This flat out removes the ability of anyone attempting to troll to do so. Leaver Buster catches one? Immediate response is punishing that player.

Exploitable? Yes. Absolutely, but even in the case where you have a duo smurf taking a hit for his partner, you're still quickly demoting that smurf enough to where the LP gain for their partner is next to nil due to the difference in MMR/Rank that will happen with repeated attempts, not to mention the bans from Leaver Buster already.

TLDR; Current systems only punish the offender, but do not protect their victims.

Devouring Worlds4/26/2019, 9:14:35 PM2 votes

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Cevrad4/27/2019, 2:09:19 PM1 votes

So out of all of this, it doesn't matter because the system for AFKs is in place. AFKing in games back to back generally leads to a perma pretty damn quickly actually. Now of course there is the issue of so many people have access to many accounts in that elo myself included (well I have 1, could care less to rank up the smurfs). I don't think they could ever fix one person randomly leaving a game. They would have to lock everyone to 1 account and then do a gamewide purge of smurfs with permabans. Thats the only way to stop it.

IShowerWithUrDad4/27/2019, 3:21:44 PM1 votes

This system could be abused so easily. Let's say you are losing a game, then your team only needs one "great guy" who leaves the game, and then the rest of the team won't lose LP, while the other team can't get anything for crushing your early game? Anyways, I feel like there is some sort of MMR for toxicity. Toxic players seems to face more toxic players. Maybe its just them making other players toxic. Play your game and accept LP losses. I don't like when someone tells me this, but its just a game...

Light Burner4/28/2019, 2:27:15 AM1 votes

Any report system you come up with can be abused for free LP so it wont happen.

Best Ekko NA4/28/2019, 4:01:25 AM1 votes

It's time to change League's AFK issue uninstall. For good.

Thread fixed.

Kentoma5/21/2019, 3:16:55 AM1 votes

So today I played a rank game and honestly you guys came up with a rank system to prevent trolls and players that dont have the skill set to be in the same division. But at the end of the day what happens there are trolls,unskilled players, and players that just wants to AFK cause they can that dont belong in that division. In result causing many players to suffer and lose LP cause of so call player of the game. So what did you guys really do to prevent all this from happening? Obviously your rank system dont work, your reports dont do much, and your remake is useless after 3 min of the game. So what is this big company of programmers and creators doing with the money and skills to fix a simple problem.

Syrile5/21/2019, 3:28:53 AM1 votes

I have commented about this plenty of times... The problem is that Riot enjoys toxicity in their games and too many players want to cater to and protect trolls. The whole cry about "prison islands are bad" or "you cannot tell when it is legitimate" are good examples of this.

The fact remains that if you are trolling your team, you do not deserve to play the game. And this is far easier to fix than people like to say.

FioraWillCarry5/21/2019, 5:19:07 AM1 votes

This person lost 1 v 1 top as FIora to a Yorick. Literally 1 death. This person immediately leaves the game and doesn't return

LMAO. I identify with this so much. This match up is the most cancer fuckin thing I've ever seen. Playing Fiora into Yorick is 100x worse than pounding wood splinters under your fingernails. It takes a hell of a lot of will not to AFK this match up to be honest. Every time I play this match up, there is a point where I just want to leave. It is too fuckin torturous.

Haze974/27/2019, 2:04:10 AM1 votes

Tell these monkeys to look at Dota which is the same genre but has a system in place. Already done, nothing to re-invent here for LoL developers.

Saianna4/27/2019, 3:58:40 AM1 votes

How to get rid of AFkers trolls and garbage behavior while also decreasing some reasons for toxicity?

Forcefully remove smurfs. Threat them like cheating. Do like Apex Legends did. Mark the hardware on which lol is installed if player gets banned for cheating/smurfing he cannot play on that PC unless he'd change part of the hardware like processor or something.

No smurfs means everyone has 1 account. No more "ah fk it, i'll go afk, I can always make another account if they ban this one"

Everyone would think thrice before they'd decide to do something stupid.

Also re-introduce tribunal.

AnotherFeeder4/27/2019, 7:05:23 AM1 votes

This is a big problem with boards. These conversations repeat themselves way to many times. We already know riot wont put in a system like what u want because it is exploitable, and u being on ur "last straw" is irrelevant.

FSRER4/27/2019, 1:11:55 PM1 votes

This idea has been adressed by riot before. The problem with such a system is that, lets say the allied team invades, has 3 people die on the invade and then if this thing exsisted, someone could just go afk and remake without losing anything. See the problem here?