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@Riot Changing surrender time to 15 mins

fasega·10/16/2015, 3:36:05 AM·3 votes·255 views

They should change the surrender time to 15 mins instead of 20 mins. This would help waste less time in not only 4v5 but also when one team gets facerolled hard. I mean I can't tell you how many times people have typed "open mid" or "push down mid" in all chat when the game pretty much over. I think this is a good indicator that waiting 20 mins to surrender is to long, besides 15 mins is more then enough time to judge if a game is over or not.

I think this would make the game less toxic by allowing people to just move on to the next game, instead of blaming each other and rage quitting. I mean sometimes you just don't have any synergy with your teammates and its better to end it sooner then later.

If possible I would really like to hear Riots opinion on this matter. If there is a specific reason its 20 mins and if they would be willing to ever change it.

3 Comments

Archon X10/16/2015, 3:40:00 AM1 votes

if the surrender mechanics bother you so much, improve at the game so you don't have to surrender so often

Deep Terror Nami10/16/2015, 3:41:41 AM1 votes

I've seen "open mid" only once.

Today. In One-for-All.

The reason it's 20 minutes is because less time is usually too little to determine who's going to win. A lot happens in that 5 minutes, and the deficit for a snowballed team isn't usually as bad as it seems early on (taking 1 dragon and each tier 1 tower is a lot, but that is very easily evened out because you haven't taken any towers yet).

If they were to reduce the forfeit timer, it would have to be variable depending on having an afk or something or increase the vote requirement to 100% for, not just a reduced timer for all circumstances.