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Please solve the leaver/afk problem.

Mathiustus·3/28/2016, 7:14:04 AM·2 votes·1,085 views

The AFK or Disconnection problem in ranked games. When a person goes AFK or never connects in the first place, I waste 20 minutes of my time. Also, I lose league points that I worked hard to get. Because someone has a bad connection or decides that they dont like the game. Or ragequits. Because of that, I lose league points.

There is a very simple solution. When someone disconnects and is gone for however long, or when someone never connects. Or someone goes afk for however long. Basically if they will be red at the end of the game. THEY lose league points. Everyone else gets loss prevented.

It may be abused you might say? Attach that to anyone they are duo with. Your friend disconnects from a game while youre duo qued with him? You dont get loss prevented. Its not likely to get abused because Ive just met you. I dont know you from a hole in the wall. Im not going to afk, get a loss, lose league points, and leaverbuster because you are in promos. Hell no. I might for a friend who is in silver 1 promos. But if me leaving or afking wont stop him from getting a loss, why would I do it? There would be NO benefit to leaving for someone you know and no benefit for afking for someone who you dont know. Also, prevent that person from receiving skin gifts or champ gifts for X amount of days.

If someone who Ive never met before(because what is the statistical chance of you queing solo and getting in with a friend you know in a ranked game) Almost zero. Whats the chance of someone Ive never met before convincing me to possibly get banned or low priority? Zero. Whats the chance of me believing someone if they say, Please afk so I dont lose. Ill gift you 20 dollars worth of skins after your two week gift ban lifts? ZERO.

People afking or leaving or not connecting has completely ruined my love of the game. I used to play a lot. Happily. Now I dread playing because out of ten games, At least four of them are going to be leavers. So if I win 100% of the games I have a fair shot at, thats still 60%. And thats if I win all of those. If I have a team thats bad but everyone stays, it drops it down more. I shouldnt have to pay the price for someone else's mistake/attitude problem.

6 Comments

Calabok3/28/2016, 7:15:01 AM1 votes

Rammus ok

what you deserve3/28/2016, 7:25:20 AM1 votes

I've won 4v5s where a teammate never connected. What happens to those games in your system?

OediLOL5/15/2016, 6:00:16 PM1 votes

sir think this is not possible, when you get into a game with someone that goes AFK you are doomed. the only solution is on Riot's side, they should do something to hardly punish people that goes AFK, like ban them permanently. people that goes AFK are the worse thing you can have in a game like this one, and only the programmers can solve that, IF THEY CARE. problem in LoL is that I see nothing really beeing done, and each game I enter I get someone that goes AFK, and next game there it is, and goes AFK, and I lose. until Riot really wants to do something there's no solution. I Am really frustated because in the last few games I got people AFk, is frustrating to waste 20 minutes and get killed over and over.. Wich Riot solves this thing soon, or this game is the victim. TY

OediLOL6/10/2016, 5:18:15 PM1 votes

Hello, And what about the normal games?? I Am in a game where two "players" just went AFK, and we have no chance but to let time pass. I think that if Riot wanted to do anything to solve this problem, they could start by making possible for me to permanently BAN a "player" from my list of matcheable players, so I would never risk of getting tjhat "person" in a team with me. Queues could be longer, but those leavers would not bother people trying to play. TY

OediLOL8/29/2016, 11:19:56 PM1 votes

I feel like Riot don’t really wants to solve the AFK problem, five minutes for a person that goes AFK and wastes all team efforts? It would be simple to put people that go AFK in another server, so they play with people like minded.