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So can we finally punish AFK people effectively?

Ayanami3rd·11/28/2017, 5:57:55 PM·1 votes·407 views

The last couple of weeks, I have AFK mates in like every third game. And if I don't have them, the enemy team has an AFK player. And I do not talk about "connection issues" AFK, but the salty/feeding type.

The usual reply when you bring up the AFK topic is "just report them". But no, this is actually not enough. Because the punishment is far too low. You are AFK like once or twice? No punishment at all, if you are a bit lucky. You do it more often? Leaverbuster and longer queue time, but just for like 3 games, and then you are back to normal.

Please punish being AFK MUCH MUCH harder. It's really game-breaking and making me even not caring about FWotD anymore, because I need to "grind" for non-AFKers to accomplish the mission. Since it's difficult to find a suitable punishment (since connection issues and real emergencies CAN happen, but just really rare), why not give other players an indicator in the champ select how often this mate has AFKed and the option to dodge without punishment if he's a notorious leaver? Or match perma AFK people with each other, so they can enjoy their behaviour among themselves? At least the first one would be easy to do, so no excuses here. If you now tell me that you don't want players to get "marked" negatively, then at least rise the punishment for AFK heavily. I am playing League since pretty much exactly since one year, and there was ONE occasion where I urgently needed to AFK due to real life issues. And I would have easily understood to be banned for 24h for that. So don't be afraid.

On a side note, it should also be easier to surrender a game where you are outnumbered. Some people find it funny to force me through 40 mins of losing because they think "we can still win". PSA: Even if there is a tiny chance, I don't care. Please don't force me in this. This is how you create and provoke toxicity (which I don't show, but one day, I might just don't give a shit anymore).

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Odd Gnome11/28/2017, 10:57:09 PM2 votes

On a side note, it should also be easier to surrender a game where you are outnumbered. Some people find it funny to force me through 40 mins of losing because they think "we can still win". PSA: Even if there is a tiny chance, I don't care. Please don't force me in this. This is how you create and provoke toxicity (which I don't show, but one day, I might just don't give a shit anymore).

No. If your team thinks you can win, you can win. Your quitter mentality sucks and you should keep trying unless your team acknowledges the loss. You can keep voting yes on surrender votes and putting them up, but unless it's 4/5 who want to surrender absolutely not.

Dragfin11/28/2017, 8:50:13 PM1 votes

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The last couple of weeks, I have AFK mates in like every third game. And if I don't have them, the enemy team has an AFK player. And I do not talk about "connection issues" AFK, but the salty/feeding type.

The usual reply when you bring up the AFK topic is "just report them". But no, this is actually not enough. Because the punishment is far too low. You are AFK like once or twice? No punishment at all, if you are a bit lucky. You do it more often? Leaverbuster and longer queue time, but just for like 3 games, and then you are back to normal.

Please punish being AFK MUCH MUCH harder. It's really game-breaking and making me even not caring about FWotD anymore, because I need to "grind" for non-AFKers to accomplish the mission. Since it's difficult to find a suitable punishment (since connection issues and real emergencies CAN happen, but just really rare), why not give other players an indicator in the champ select how often this mate has AFKed and the option to dodge without punishment if he's a notorious leaver? Or match perma AFK people with each other, so they can enjoy their behaviour among themselves? At least the first one would be easy to do, so no excuses here. If you now tell me that you don't want players to get "marked" negatively, then at least rise the punishment for AFK heavily. I am playing League since pretty much exactly since one year, and there was ONE occasion where I urgently needed to AFK due to real life issues. And I would have easily understood to be banned for 24h for that. So don't be afraid.

On a side note, it should also be easier to surrender a game where you are outnumbered. Some people find it funny to force me through 40 mins of losing because they think "we can still win". PSA: Even if there is a tiny chance, I don't care. Please don't force me in this. This is how you create and provoke toxicity (which I don't show, but one day, I might just don't give a shit anymore).

All RIOT cares about is whether or not you are calling someone a poo poo head. They have this sorry ass LPQ punishment as an excuse they can give when people talk about AFK's like you did. It does absolutely nothing to curb the worst toxicity in the game. People continue to do it because they can get away with it over a very long period of time and rarely get banned.