Harsher punishment and early detection of toxic, unsportsmenlike and bad mannered behavior.
Not one of those grieving threads. Truth be told, I don't mind it. It doesn't ruinin my gameplay, and i know in the spread of ranked games. Its just a minor bump in the road to where I would like to end up.
But the truth is this, Stricter punishments have been needed, for awhile now.
A different form of detection, that is used on the tencent ran, Chinese servers, is needed. The one that compiles data, and promts the players if they want to report them, not just having the option and power to report someone. I read about it a month ago, and it seems to be better then what we currently have in America.
I would rather the system prompt players if they want to ensure this player is reviewed, and it seems to make more sense then waiting for a string of reports to deal with one person.
Point is this, Based on my last 20 or so games, I have a MMR rating, around my MMR rating are certain stats that are relatively the same. Almost every game, I place this amount of wards. I Generate this amount of Gold per minute when I'm ahead and this amount when I'm behind. I have a tendency to die this amount of time in lane, and this amount of time in team fights.
All this raw data should be used in deciding whether or not a person is intentionally throwing a game, having a rough game or being a child.
Heres an example, The entire team is getting seiged, but one player is farming top by himself. So your teamates GPM is lower, because your being seiged and overall cannot cs a ton, Thus the player who is giving the siege for free has a much larger GPM then the team at that moment. The system should flag that, and prompt me afterwards to have them reviewed.
At some point the whole, Their just bad, NA is just bad, isn't a viable excuse. I see more players, perpusely not do something or just run in or even try and fake their interest just to take a loss quicker then fighting for a win. It's terrible, people are legitimately giving up fairly quick, ensuring that you don't come back, because they want to get into a different game( they don't have other things to do, they want to leave that game for another one.). Because their not the star for that game, so why are they going to try and change themselves in order to win. Why are innocent players being subjected to this, You can stop appeasing the 1% of the game, and start focusing on balancing out the behaviorism of your game.
Use your corporate ties to ask Tencent for a copy of their exclusive punishment system, start fixing your MMR system to account for players who have the tendency to give up quick, or not want to play at all ( they have to get reported all the time, i don't see how they aren't) Keep them away from players who are in it to win it. Start banning their accounts, and use the stats generated by your API system to find these players who are dragging down the fun aspect of competitive play.
This is for the down voters, in specific. You don't like the suggestion, because it forcing you to change. So go ahead, try and spread negative propaganda, cherry pick my entire argument and ultimately do what ever makes you feel comfort inside. Leaving a game, is unacceptable, Giving them the game, is unacceptable and not trying to change is unacceptable. Its not F this game, it's really F these people who are ruining it. Who go out of their way to ruin the game for someone, Games are meant to be enjoyed, and so is life. When someone tries to impede their own will onto others, they get arrested. In this game they should be banned.