Afk series loss prevention

mman101·1/8/2017, 9:55:45 PM·1 votes·777 views

I believe that if you are playing a ranked game and are in a series and someone leaves/goes afk that there should be a loss prevention for the summoners affected by this one person. There is currently a remake system that is in place which allows for a game to not count and end after 3 min or so if someone joins the game afk but what if someone goes afk right in the middle of the game? Not only does it ruin the game for the other 9 players but also ruins the series for one if not multiple players. I just feel that there needs to be something in place that prevents those few players from ruining the game because lets face it, anyone can afk at any given moment for any given reason it may not necessarily be because they are a toxic player. I cannot tell you how many times I've had kids in my game tell me that their parents are telling them to get off the game ergo ruining the entire match. Please riot, at least consider some sort of option. "Draven out!" Draven

5 Comments

Kuthillick1/9/2017, 6:21:05 AM1 votes

I am going to say no for a couple reasons but the biggest of those being this:

It would lead to toxic behavior.

While this seems counter-intuitive think of this: You are in your promotions, final game. Win you move up, lose you go down to 75 LP (or whatever it is). About 15 minutes through the game it is CLEAR you are going to lose. No one has afk'd, there are no intentional feeders, no trolls, just nothing is going right. You can't surrender yet but a member of your team thinks: "Hey... if we can get someone to afk this game won't count!".

They pick out one player and start to harass him, flame him, belittle him, etc. While the player COULD ignore and mute the offending player this isnt always the case. A team could do this to a solitary player to try and get them to afk to save their series or game.

Unfortunately I don't see this as an uncommon occurance should "Afk mercy" be incorporated. This is one of my biggest worries if a system like this gets incorporated.

Horse Grenades1/9/2017, 3:19:34 PM1 votes

I don't mind this for promos at all.