Should riot be harsher on AFKs?

scazzman·7/6/2015, 9:58:23 PM·2 votes·763 views

hey guys. everyone knows afks suck. but i understand people have lives and have to do other things sometimes. but i feel as though people who troll afk aren't being punished enough. granted people probably shouldnt be permabanned unless they do it nonstop. but i feel like if the leaverbuster catches you. they should actually get a suspension rather than a queue timer. because depending on how long they were afk they may not even notice

7 Comments

Duke Anax7/6/2015, 10:11:25 PM3 votes

I voted No, because I haven't seen and actual afk in a looong time. So what they did actually seems to have worked well.

What I see a lot of though are people not connecting to a game or crashing/disconnecting midway. And as far as I can tell these are not the player's fault but Riot's.

Gunpoint7/7/2015, 12:59:36 AM2 votes

nah, I admit, I actually have been punished by the system on more than one occasion for afks. (I have a busy life jeez, I usually make sure it's for the most part cool with my team and that we were losing anyway) The afk system is really killer. The 20 minute thing is such an inconvenience, not only can you not play for 20 minutes, but if you want to play with friends THEY have to wait the 20 minutes too, you can not invite them part way through the wait and you can not access anything else on the game aside from the "cancel" button. Another thing is you have to be attentive the whole time, if the queue ends and either you or your friend are not there to respond, you have to wait the whole thing over again. It gives me pretty good incentive not to leave a match especially since I play in parties often.

SmokedAlmonds7/6/2015, 10:16:53 PM1 votes

I think they handle afks pretty well. I would like to see more ramp up for successive punishments though. People are given way to many chances. I've seen people talk about having multiple 20min low priority ques and I just feel like at that point it should be able to go higher than 20 minutes or just start giving bans.

Demon Diana7/6/2015, 10:48:52 PM1 votes

people like me right now would be devistated... there is a in game and client bug where people are not loading in or the game is crashing, i have lost 50 lp+ due to this issue in my division right now and do have the 20 min low priority que, i have never afk'ed for 4 months or longer. because of riots server right now this in game bug is ruinging alot of peoples experiences... so PLEASE dont blame allthe DC's or AFK's rn till they fix this crash heres a thread as proof: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/help-support/NZfBhApx-game-crashing-disconnecting-in-champ-select