6 years later and still no compensation for people who have ranked leavers

Zuil··7 votes·962 views

I'm writing this after losing a placement match because after an hour of playing, I get a win stolen from me. We lost because our adc left 15 minutes into the game, and it didn't matter what happened, our LeBlanc who had 30 kills did all what she could do, I did all what I could do (even though I went 6/8/14, I racked up close to 60k in damage) our Xin did all what he could do but it didn't matter, the other team having a 5th man to backdoor and us not having that extra firepower from our ADC just made it impossible to win. Yes I am salty, But I was cheated out of a win for something I have no control over (also just taking this in the worst matches ever to lose in just makes it worse, I am feeling like I will start at Bronze 3 now).

Riot, just add some sort of support to the thousands of people who lose a game because someone on their team left the match in a ranked game, it's been 6 fucking years without some.

5 Comments

Jbirdsando2 votes

How about instead of complaining you conjure up a suggestion that couldn't be exploitable in any way. :)

XIII Vanitas1 votes

You know how they can avoid exploits? By punishing leavers more severely. If players still go afk on purpose, it's evident that the penalty they receive isn't serious enough.

Jbirdsando1 votes

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You know how they can avoid exploits? By punishing leavers more severely. If players still go afk on purpose, it's evident that the penalty they receive isn't serious enough.

Find a way to identify smart players who afk on purpose. Stupid people who click "Leave Game" and never come back should receive very severe punishments. What about players who may imitate internet problems and intentionally leave games by unplugging or disconnecting their internet? Players would then discover they can do just that, and even stupid people could bypass the punishments, and then another batch of complains would ensue asking for compensation for afks. There is hardly a way you can fix AFKs without punishing dcs and intentional leavers the same, which would ALSO spark another problem.[zombie-brand-clap]

XIII Vanitas1 votes

Riot shouldn't really care. If the problem is not on Riot's end (meaning it's not the server), it's on player's end. If you go afk once in a while (f.e.: there was an emergency, there was a blackout, your computer/router stopped working) it's not a big deal, but if you do that repeatedly (f.e.: you usually have internet problems and you haven't fixed them yet, you are a ragequitter) then you have no excuse and you should be severely punished.

Dehitay1 votes

The general compensation you get is the advantage from games where the enemy team has an afk/disconnect. If you play enough games, the numbers even out. And before you start complaining about how they're always on your team and not the enemy, I'll pre-emptively tell you that you're either being too self-centered to notice that's not the case, or you pissed off the god of luck and you have much bigger concerns to worry about like randomly getting hit by an 18-wheeler while on the road.

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