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Ranked AFKs and DCs

Meikine·10/13/2014, 3:46:03 AM·6 votes·1,333 views

I often hear stories and complaints about DCs and AFKs, and up until now, I was lucky enough to not encounter one in any of my ranked games. Though I am usually calm about losses, when my team threw a ranked game today due to the DC of our ad carry, I got a little upset (the pressure from the end of season and my limited time I'm able to spend on League also probably worsened it), hence why I came to post on the boards. I lost more LP in that 4v5 (16 LP) than I usually did in a ranked 5v5 (11 LP), and I found it quite unfair.

I know that Riot prioritizes the players' experience over everything, and they've done quite a lot for us already, but if there are many others in similar situations of ranked 4v5s, why hasn't Riot begun using Loss Prevented on obvious 4v5s or at least make the LP loss less substantial? I know others might've complained with similar problems and had similar solutions, but I just wanted to know why they haven't fixed the issue yet.

7 Comments

disregardable10/13/2014, 3:50:51 AM3 votes

Because that's too easy to abuse. Duo queue, alternate AFKing every time you lose, maximize wins and climb rank. I'm in Bronze 5. There is an AFK every game, often more than one or one on both teams. It's fair because everyone has the same chance of AFKs.

LordExioth10/13/2014, 11:10:06 AM3 votes

I agree but there is always abuse. I started in Bronze 5 and got to Silver recently. The amount of afkers dcers in bronze is ridiculous. I know some people think bronzies don't matter but honestly we try just as hard, have lives and jobs just like everyone else, and wasting 20 minutes no matter what because of someone who doesn't care about playing in a hurricane or just a small child that loses attention and wanders off sucks. Alot of mature gamers only get 1-2 hours a day and when you get a 4v5 you know you can't win and everyone keeps voting no, your looking at a wasted 40 minutes.

KuKEE TiME10/13/2014, 2:51:04 PM2 votes

"why hasn't Riot begun using Loss Prevented on obvious 4v5s or at least make the LP loss less substantial? I know others might've complained with similar problems and had similar solutions, but I just wanted to know why they haven't fixed the issue yet."

I completely agree with this, ranked game mode are for players who take the game a lil more serious then your casual gamer.. or troll. Wen players get a loss or fail to complete there series because a player died and was in a bad mood so d/c on purpose. its not fair the penalties should be more serious to weed out people with shitty connections or players with no patience. I've lost countless ranked games because of this reason. The less LP loss makes sense, Loss Prevention may be over doing it, unless the player / players d/c in beginning. Also a warning pop-up when u decided to play ranked, would help. I don't know something..

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Karinrinkashi12/10/2014, 5:02:42 AM1 votes

Riot won't do shit about it.. I am sure that there can be SOME kind of system to help out, but they won't. All they will say is "You can carry!" Yeah right. Right now the only thing carrying your sloppy work is the community that League has. Otherwise, Riot has done a lot to make sure that people start playing other games. I have gone through 4 consecutive games with DCs/AFKs in a row before writing this comment.

FUCK RIOT! And i dare them to ban my account. i am looking for excuses to stop playing this shit game...

Think about it... 4 games in a ROW afks/DCs. We are talking about a game that is played worldwide.. Shit services!