At what point is Riot start taking AFK/Leaver behavior seriously?

5 Dollar Holler·8/25/2019, 6:36:28 PM·5 votes·5,965 views
https://imgur.com/a/uXHAsvZ

This is a behavior that's so easy to detect, but Riot does the least about. Riot's policy is to give them the benefit of every excuse possible. "Well you wouldn't want to punish someone whose modem just happened to be struck my lightning, and then his replacement modem was ALSO struck my lightning the next game. So back to back leaver games may not be intentional." In reality, people leave games (1) knowing that their leaving was a risk when they queue'd (bad internet, competing real life priorities), or (2) ragequitters. The impact is -18 LP for 4 innocent bystanders.

Leavers should be punished properly. My most recent game, screenshot attached, is how blatant leavers have become. They don't care. They announce it in chat, because they know it'll never be punished. I played with a guy two days ago whose username was "I DC A LOT" (not his actual name, to protect the Board rules I'm not calling out an actual account ID, but it's very similar to that spirit). Sure enough he left 3 times during the match. It's such a joke, in the post game lobby I asked him about his name. He said "this is my account when I'm at school and know my internet will cut out a lot." I asked if he had been punished and he said "Not yet, and I disconnect all the time. Riot doesn't seem to track it, I'm thinking of just going back to my main since they don't enforce leaving."

6 Comments

5 Dollar Holler8/25/2019, 7:13:08 PM3 votes

Just happened to me again. Back to back games, someone on my team announced he's going AFK and quits.

This is incredible. And to get these free losses back I probably have to play 45 minute long, hard-fought wins.

Ash Lockheart8/26/2019, 1:05:06 PM2 votes

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This is a behavior that's so easy to detect, but Riot does the least about. Riot's policy is to give them the benefit of every excuse possible. "Well you wouldn't want to punish someone whose modem just happened to be struck my lightning, and then his replacement modem was ALSO struck my lightning the next game. So back to back leaver games may not be intentional." In reality, people leave games (1) knowing that their leaving was a risk when they queue'd (bad internet, competing real life priorities), or (2) ragequitters. The impact is -18 LP for 4 innocent bystanders.

Leavers should be punished properly. My most recent game, screenshot attached, is how blatant leavers have become. They don't care. They announce it in chat, because they know it'll never be punished. I played with a guy two days ago whose username was "I DC A LOT" (not his actual name, to protect the Board rules I'm not calling out an actual account ID, but it's very similar to that spirit). Sure enough he left 3 times during the match. It's such a joke, in the post game lobby I asked him about his name. He said "this is my account when I'm at school and know my internet will cut out a lot." I asked if he had been punished and he said "Not yet, and I disconnect all the time. Riot doesn't seem to track it, I'm thinking of just going back to my main since they don't enforce leaving."

If players feel the team is doing poorly, and they know the team won't surrender at the correct time to not waste time leaving is the better choice. No one should be forced to drag out a loss when everyone can say gg ff and move on to the next game. As long as players don't leave every match there really is no rule breaking. Back in the old day surrender never happened because games would avg over the 30 min mark, and comebacks were common. None of those things exist any more. So ff should be used often, but its not. That's why afks are common right now. My self included.

Karunamon8/26/2019, 2:07:15 PM2 votes

Hear hear. Isn't it interesting how the quality of people's internet connection is directly related to their KDA and gold lead? I very, VERY rarely see disconnects on the winning team.

Regarding the guy in your OP, he's probably not getting LB'd because he comes back within a few minutes. You don't get counted as a leaver unless you're gone for a certain length of time.

IllIllIlllllll8/25/2019, 6:42:06 PM1 votes

Never. I've left like 10 games on this account in a 3 day period and no penalty