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Riot I have fixed the AFK ranked que issue

Kiblet85·11/28/2014, 7:09:04 PM·1 votes·697 views

On top of your leave buster permaban thing that is coming out. If Leave buster AND reports of AFK are made for RANKED que. Loss forgiveness should automatically be applied to the game. This way AFKers don't affect the four other players stats who fought it out for 45 minutes trying to win 4v5. That in itself is an effort with giving LP points to.

The counter argument is what if people are losing then they afk on purpose and have their team report them to get loss forgiveness. Yes, that will happen, but with the new leave buster's super strict rules about afking during games, plus modify it for mid/late game punishments (being higher). That should stop people from doing it quickly or ban those who attempt it.

Next argurment, well what happens if I am playing then I get banned because I had to leave. First off, if you know there is a possibility you have to leave don't play ranked. If an emergency comes up, make a note in game and ask riot to evaluate it based on the rest of the players performance in the game and such. The player might not be able to play for a couple days, but it would help reduce the amount of people destroying the rest of the ranked que games. Especially low elo.

I read the chatter about the new leave buster and most people commenting about it are higher elo where the afk/leaving without a reason doesn't happen. Well the Lower end elo games it happens so frequently I almost refuse to play ranked, which is what this game should be about. So that being said, I would love to hear feedback from riot staff on possibilities of such a system being introduced.

2 Comments

Lobode11/28/2014, 7:34:59 PM1 votes

My biggest issue with afk right now is those people that never join after champion selection. Twice yesterday I had someone auto lock in Lux and then AFK the entire game in promos. I thought it was kind of weird that both times it was a lux since one game was in the morning and one was at night. Lost the first game and made the other team surrender in the second. Leaver buster should activate on players who do that or that are reported for doing that. I think loss forgiveness should happen if someone AFKs the entire game. I understand how frustrating it is to have people rage quit, AFK for some dumb reason(like mom says I have to eat dinner), or those with crap internet that DC constantly. But adding a way for players to manipulate the system to not get a loss would be far worse. It was bad enough when people were using ddos to get out of a loss every other game, adding a system in game that could be that exploitable would be even worse. If they can get it so leaver buster and reporting make it so those players are never in ranked again I can accept getting a loss now and then.