Afk system In League Of Legends
Dear Riot Games,
At this point all I have to ask is why?
We have all played our fair share of losing streaks and we all get upset about it, its understandable and usually people frustrated that they are having a hard time learning how to play the game. I started playing League of Legends with a bunch of friends in 2012 and since then I have adored this game and I understand that sometimes, you cant always win and get what you want. But what I need to understand Is why am I punished from someone disconnecting in a ranked game, to the point that I feel helpless and I want to win so bad and maybe we are even doing well in the match but then my enjoyment of the game is crushed by sometimes one or maybe even TWO people disconnecting from the game. I have been playing ranked and I have been observing the state of it, for the most part its a very stable environment given to us to enjoy the game. Maybe toxicity is a problem in the community but It can be solved through methods given to us by Riot Games.
Climbing through the ranks and learning was a very fun experience for me and even though I got mixed emotions on how I played or how others played I understood that the answer was within MY ability and MY thought process. To be honest in the beginning of my ranked climb I thought this was a very stupid concept and I thought I knew everything I needed to know to be able to play this game properly (I was pretty wrong lol). This is why I love this game and I enjoy it so much that I am torn apart by whats happening to my game play experience so much to the fact that I get angry at myself for this thinking "I should be able to do this, why can't I do this!" and thinking that It is my OWN fault that players throw games by simply disconnecting.
On my account I have a few ranked games played recently and today I feel like I need to talk about this and see If I can get some attention on it (hopefully). I completely admit that I have lost 2-3 games by myself from my own mistakes, But about 3-4 games in ranked (its been about a week time span so I couldn't keep track of them all, these are all ranked games btw) Me and my team were winning our lanes, and then around mid game I had a summoner disconnect in our team. I had already had my hopes of winning sunk to the bottom "how do we win against a whole other kit of abilities without a fair 5v5" all of our game play started to drop and we just ended up losing after trying our hardest no matter what, they were always better they had one more person they had more of everything now. I had to suffer this for about 3-4 games, and I know so many others like me have as well.
I'm not asking for my Lp back, and i'm not asking for someone to get banned. All I am asking for is a system of some kind to do something about this because Its a flaw of this game that's so big but has been going on for years and Riot has failed to fix this numerous times. There is another game like League of Legends called Dota 2 there are huge debates about it all over the web about which game is better in which ways, but the only reason why I consider Dota 2 more user friendly is because of their afk systems. Instead of making everyone take a hit Dota 2 makes the first person to leave a game responsible and the only one to drop turning the game into a normal. Not only do they do this but they also give players control over the afk players character which gives them the abilities of a 5 man group (not 4).
Anyways I hope Riot at least reads this and maybe some feedback would be helpful too because I really love this game but it frustrates me that a game can turn so easily from stupid things that aren't even real game mechanics but can affect games so easily.
Some Extra Info: -Normal's would basically just have the afk players character controllable, since you don't lose anything while playing those anyways.