Why is riot not implementing a "forgiven" type thing for people in ranked games who get an afk or dc

MikeNIke33224·2/25/2015, 5:01:04 PM·1 votes·729 views

Ok so what im asking is why hasnt riot made a forgiven type element to people who get a random afk or a dc? Now i dont know if it happens a lot in the upper tiers but down here in bronze (bronze scrub 4 life ) i have had multiple games where people either dc or afk. Im not raging at them about it because sometimes life happens and it takes your attention elsewhere, but for the other 4 people who are trying to climb why are they not forgiven for that loss when an afk happens? I dont think it would be that bad to have that happen, maybe not even be totally forgiven for the loss because i have won 4v5 before it is possible maybe just half the lp loss or something? Just curious about why something like this hasnt happened yet.

5 Comments

Sir ArmaMalum2/25/2015, 5:07:04 PM1 votes

The main hurdle is the easy capacity for abuse. If people get a reduced penalty for a dc or afk, then what's to stop people from flaming one specific person into leaving so that way everyone else get's a forgiven bonus? We already have that happening because people love heaping blame onto one person. Hell I can't even say I'm innocent from it (although I've never flamed, just grumbled over skype). Any system that has people benefit from leaving will be quickly abused.

At the same time there's the idea of if someone never connected in the first place a forgiven mechanic should be implemented, which is much easier. But then if someone joins back in late because tech issues then they've denied the team that forgiven status and proceeds to be at a disadvantage anyway. Now, simple thing to do at that point is to only allow reconnecting before, say, 5 minutes into the game. But the main take-away here is that the issue isn't as simple as one may initially think.

Saiyer2/25/2015, 5:10:01 PM1 votes

Riot prefers to punish people rather than compensate. AFKs and DCs have been a problem forever and while Riot has taken 'steps' to address the issues...it hasn't made a real impact on the community. Instead of helping the players who suffer due to mishaps that are completely out of their team's control...they'd rather find new but baby step ways to punish the leavers.

I'd love to see Riot actually look into compensating players who get burned by leavers or afks. Doesn't have to be a loss forgiven but the current system only creates more frustration. Honestly if Riot wants to keep punishing people rather than help those that need it...I'd rather see leaving games be more of a risk than they are now. In the event an emergency happened, that leaver can hash it out with Riot's support.

Darth Pixy Misa2/25/2015, 5:15:19 PM1 votes

Riot should recalculate the team mmr to subtract the afker's mmr then discount the LP points lost by 50%

Aerothal2/25/2015, 5:40:06 PM1 votes

it would be exploited. discussion over!