What to do about afk?

Plumbliss·2/9/2019, 4:27:34 AM·8 votes·9,827 views

Purely an emotional response, but it feels like there is nothing done about players afking. I assume there probably is in reality, but they just keep doing it. It isn't very rewarding to play the game or try and climb, when the odds seem to be stacked against you 1 out of 3 games. Sure you can win some 4v5 games when your team plays well, and gets a lead. But in general the other team will smell blood in the water realizing a player is gone and begin to play the map and using their numbers to win. There has got to be a better way to solve this problem other than reports and banning accounts (which people will just make new ones anyway). Granted a solution probably isn't as easy as snapping your fingers to figure out, because there will be players that will try and abuse a poorly crafted one, but still it's demoralizing and extremely tilting to have a string of games where the odds aren't fair. So what can be done? There has got to be a better solution to reduce the amount of afks. Ideas?

31 Comments

JayceGatsby2/13/2019, 11:27:47 AM5 votes

AFK is not punished. Period. Low priority Q is a joke. They do not loose honor, they dont get banned, they jsut keep ruining games for other 4 people ranked or not, over and over again. But god forbid you to call them out for that, you will get permaban in no time for verbal.

Why? Because Rito logic ofcourse![slayer-jinx-catface]

Saezio2/9/2019, 3:31:28 PM4 votes

Personally , I would like to see riot adopt a Ranked-ban strategy for perennial afkers. If someone exhibit afk behaviours in more than 10-15% of their games over like 100 games they should get a ranked bad which would be uplifted after successfully playing 15 straight games without afk.

All the numbers are indicative and should not be taken face value, the idea is the same if you substitute any amount of the 4 variants.

ChaosLordMadis2/13/2019, 2:36:38 PM2 votes

Have any of you people complaing about this relized that sometimes there are legit reason why people leave a match? THere aresuch tings as RL emergencies and sorry to say If I am in the middle of a match and I here my grandma fall you can bet Im going to go check on her. Or say I get a call that soething hs happend with my aunt or uncle and they need help yea going to leave. Or better yet the fact that in the summer for some dam reason my Internet just cuts out for no reason during the day and sometimes in the evenings. What am I supoes to just stop playing a game I enjoy? Yes there are people who abouse the system (there always will be) and people who just play and then go do something lke cooking a bit then come back to play a it that is wrong (I mean seriously if you know you ahve someting coming up dnt play a match I do agree with that 100%) but you cant use that to punish people that do have emergencies.

And yea I think if you toss out certian names when this happens I htink you should be punished. Just becuase somone elese broke a rule does not excuse you if you decide to break one as well. Therre is a way to report people at the end of a match use it becuase if they are the type that trolls bye going afk I am pretty sure they will eventulley be smaked with more then a low priotiry que.

Inkling Commando2/9/2019, 6:35:25 AM2 votes

just ignore them and keep playing. long as you dont let it bother you it wont be a problem. simple.

mlm olo mlm2/9/2019, 3:42:49 PM2 votes

Make a fun game that people will enjoy playing.

JayceGatsby2/16/2019, 3:00:43 PM1 votes

We need to abuse this system more. Like I quit trashtalking people, since it actually gets me punished, no matter that they started. So simply, if they flame/blabe/insult over the top, kuddos for you, have fun in your 4v5 game. I go play WoW or watch youtube and come back only to report you in the end of the match. You lost,, you were angry and you probably get banned for toxicity while I get, OIH NOES. low prio Q for a few games.

start doing it people. Start leaving games in mass when people are toxic or incredibly bad. Abuse this to your advantage until Riot finally fix it.

i piss in jugs5/10/2019, 2:02:58 AM1 votes

Kill everyone that comes into your lane.

Vlada Cut5/10/2019, 9:10:36 PM1 votes

Amdnthenfact leaver buster is being given to players who are sufferimg from bugsplat and not actually ragequitting whole people who actually afk don't get punished.