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Why do games with AFK's from the load screen still negatively affecting me?

TheZerp··3 votes·286 views

I'm not here to say that I can't climb because of this problem, not by a long shot, but it certainly is frustrating isn't it? We have all been there. 2/2 in series for next tier. You get into game on your best champion with your best runes and masteries set up, and you are psyched. Nothing will stop you from winning this game. You load in. Your Gnar is on the spawn pad and hasn't bought items after 2 minutes. 5 more minutes passes by, and everyone is off to a decent start, farming well, but where is Gnar? Still sitting on the spawn pad.

I'm sure there have been posts about something along these lines in the past, but why haven't we come up with a work around? The Tribunal won't help me when this problem happens, and there will ALWAYS be people that AFK, Rage quit, or just dont load in. And I am just sitting there, with my hard earned LP gone, or another X in my series. Any ideas?

3 Comments

BeatsBySpooby1 votes

I completely agree, why punish players who earned where they are at? Its not their fault they lost a 4 Vs 5 game. sometimes its harmless ( internet issues tech problems or server issues) other times it is blatant quitting or AFK. Regardless players get very discouraged when they are trying to climb and fall short, not because of their own short comings but that of another players. there needs to be a system to identify and weed out the afk players and or leavers so that honest hard working players are rewarded for grinding it out not punished for doing everything right.

TheZerp1 votes

Why not do some sort of Ready Check system after the Champ select before the game goes to load screen?

Stellafreyja1 votes

There should honestly be a secondary surrender option. If the game detects that someone has been afk for a while, it should ask the team if they wish to end the match and it resulting in a Draw or something. That way there's no penalty for surrendering at 20 and it be classified as a loss.

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