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Too Much Forfeiting

Daimyon·8/25/2016, 11:03:39 PM·3 votes·784 views

I'm starting to grow tired of people who simply forfeit a game because they fall behind a few kills. They treat this game like it's Rock-Paper-Scissors and that certain teams will always win, no matter how hard you try. I refuse to forfeit, and I don't stop trying until the game is over.

These people usually beg their team to quit a game only 20 minutes in because they lost 1 tower, or are down 5 kills. When you see people like this, you know they aren't giving their full effort into trying to win because they've already convinced themselves that the game is a loss. Personally, I have come back from huge deficits in score to win a game because people rallied together and worked as a team. However, when you have people who refuse to acknowledge that come-from-behind victories happen, it makes it so much more difficult to pull off.

Honestly, I think there should be a way to track how frequently someone forfeits or initiates a forfeit vote and hand out penalties based on it. If someone is consistently forfeiting or initiating forfeit votes, that's not a play that I or anyone else who cares wants on their team.

11 Comments

BananaSlayerAMO8/25/2016, 11:16:48 PM5 votes

People have the right to start a surrender vote if they want. It's easy for everyone else to ignore if they don't want to surrender. There isn't anything really bad/offensive about it, and there is a cd on how often someone can /surrender so it isn't a problem.

However, constantly being negative, playing in a troll-like manner, and saying that the team will lose in chat is a problem, especially if they are rude about it. I agree that it should be added to the list of reportable offences if it isn't already there.

Kamisha8/25/2016, 11:13:30 PM3 votes

Having Forfeiting being a punishable offense is over stepping bounds by a lot more than what you should be allowed to do. A forfeit is a team decision which means the team as a whole (4/5) have to agree so in those parameters is enough. Continuing onwards with your problem if there are a lot of forfeits switch to playing ranked since in that environment there is actually a reason to not forfeit in the normal game environment there is no actual loss to a game being forfeit.

Daimyon8/25/2016, 11:57:39 PM1 votes

It's not so much forfeiting when there is a reason, it's people who forfeit frequently that I am concerned about. Is it reaching to think that people who forfeit on a regular basis generally give up too soon? I think it's just an attitude that needs to be addressed because it's not in the spirit of the game to quit when you're down.

I don't report people for trying to forfeit a game. What I do report, however, are people who attempt to forfeit over and over and beg the team to give up even though the team says no. It's a negative attitude, and I can't be the only one who finds it difficult to trust that that person is giving 100% to the game at that point.

BigBellBrute8/26/2016, 12:35:00 AM1 votes

Forfeiting all the time when things look kind of bad means those doing it are giving up games that they can pull out 10-30% of the time depending upon how readily they forfeit.

Maximum Morde8/26/2016, 3:07:00 PM1 votes

I always vote yes because it's just common courtesy. People want to surrender because they aren't having fun and it's rude to try and keep them in a GAME that they aren't enjoying. That would be like forcing someone to watch Gigli.