Out of 5 ranked games played today, 2 of them had AFKs

Shinji lkari·Mar 12, 2016·1 votes·531 views

I hope that there will be severe punishments for these people (I reported them and put comments of course). AFKers are ruining games, I'm hoping Riot has a system planned in the NEAR future to not punish players who are suffering a 4v5. Even if I was on the winning team against the team with one AFK, I would gladly forfeit my LP so that the game doesn't count for both sides.

This is a dangerously high ratio of AFK players, and I have experienced them often in the 200+ games of ranked I have played.

15 Comments

MasterSomethingMar 12, 20161 votes

You must be unlucky, I haven't seen an AFK in ages

Shinji lkariMar 12, 20162 votes

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You must be unlucky, I haven't seen an AFK in ages

I see them all the time, even if they are on the enemy team, I see AFKs all the time. I report them all the time, but the number of AFKs hasn't decreased, and all these matches are just being allowed. They wouldn't allow an LCS team to compete against each other if one team's computer stopped working properly, so why do they not do the same for the rest of us?

MasterSomethingMar 12, 20161 votes

They won't do that because that would allow players to simply leave and disable the match for literally everyone else, thus preventing loss. The reason they don't find a kind of AFK amnesty sort of thing is simply because players WILL abuse it. Not to mention that your solution would take so many damn resources and checks to perfect it's not worth it. It's easier to do in LCS because there are a LOT less players playing.

Shinji lkariMar 12, 20161 votes

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They won't do that because that would allow players to simply leave and disable the match for literally everyone else, thus preventing loss. The reason they don't find a kind of AFK amnesty sort of thing is simply because players WILL abuse it. Not to mention that your solution would take so many damn resources and checks to perfect it's not worth it. It's easier to do in LCS because there are a LOT less players playing.

That's just an excuse. DotA2 already has the system implemented. You get placed in a low priority queue there and it's not worth it if you play frequently. So no. You are wrong.

MasterSomethingMar 12, 20161 votes

Yea, it's not worth it for YOU, but maybe it's worth it for your team. Groups of 4-5 would become even more rampant, and when they are losing they can simply just have one of their own disconnect and they only suffer a minor loss. And don't bring up the garbage that "they can make it specialized". Do you know how hard it is to code this? DotA2 has it because the company that made it has a shit ton of money to throw around endlessly. Riot has the servers, employees, maintenance cost, and many international issues to deal with. You can hardly compare the two.

Shinji lkariMar 12, 20161 votes

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Yea, it's not worth it for YOU, but maybe it's worth it for your team. Groups of 4-5 would become even more rampant, and when they are losing they can simply just have one of their own disconnect and they only suffer a minor loss. And don't bring up the garbage that "they can make it specialized". Do you know how hard it is to code this? DotA2 has it because the company that made it has a shit ton of money to throw around endlessly. Riot has the servers, employees, maintenance cost, and many international issues to deal with. You can hardly compare the two.

League of Legends hit it off in 2009, that's 7 years ago. They are a billion dollar company and have made some of the highest amounts of money in 2015. Are you honestly telling me that after 7 years and BILLIONS of dollars, plus their EXTREMELY SMALL amount of employees, ONE major NA server in CHICAGO that doesn't accommodate for those in the west coast, and they have been pumping out new skins and champs which cost a lot of money with RP that they cannot hire a cheap programmer to do the code? You're excusing a billion dollar company that has been going strong for 7 years.

This isn't a small indie company, it's a large company owned by the Chinese. They only have one game and you're telling me in 2016, a highly advanced year, that they cannot code something that is probably simple for many other programmers/software engineers in the field? Laughable.

I already said DotA2 has implemented it for years, and it works fine. They should isolate AFKers to their own MMR so it doesn't ruin everybody elses games. There, problem solved.

MasterSomethingMar 13, 20162 votes

Oh god, you are beyond arrogant in this post. They are a seemingly billion dollar company. They have MADE a billion dollars, but that doesn't mean they have a billion dollars. I would also call 2000 employees quite big. Not to mention international Rioters are there as well. One major server in NA, and a bunch of other servers everywhere else. Don't forget that making these skins and champions cost money to put into motion.

For the last time, Tencent does not own Riot. It owns all of Riot's shares. Riot is still independent and can do whatever it wants. Also, this is massive code in the systems. Not only would isolating specific parts of code take a long time, there would also have to be testing and working around to make sure the code won't fuck anything else up. You do NOT know how coding is handled.

DotA2 and League of Legends are incomparable. Valve has more workers and money than Riot, and an even higher standard to meet up with, yet is somehow more toxic than League. You also say that like it can be easily solved by slapping your hands on a keyboard. That is not how this works.

Shinji lkariMar 14, 20161 votes

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Oh god, you are beyond arrogant in this post. They are a seemingly billion dollar company. They have MADE a billion dollars, but that doesn't mean they have a billion dollars. I would also call 2000 employees quite big. Not to mention international Rioters are there as well. One major server in NA, and a bunch of other servers everywhere else. Don't forget that making these skins and champions cost money to put into motion.

For the last time, Tencent does not own Riot. It owns all of Riot's shares. Riot is still independent and can do whatever it wants. Also, this is massive code in the systems. Not only would isolating specific parts of code take a long time, there would also have to be testing and working around to make sure the code won't fuck anything else up. You do NOT know how coding is handled.

DotA2 and League of Legends are incomparable. Valve has more workers and money than Riot, and an even higher standard to meet up with, yet is somehow more toxic than League. You also say that like it can be easily solved by slapping your hands on a keyboard. That is not how this works.

Riot has only 1000 employees.

MasterSomethingMar 14, 20161 votes

And? That's still a huge number to have in the first place.

Void NargacugaMar 12, 20161 votes

My question for you: Did you report them for AFK? Seriously its a valid report option!

Shinji lkariMar 12, 20161 votes

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My question for you: Did you report them for AFK? Seriously its a valid report option!

If you actually read my 2 sentence long post you would see that I already said whether I reported them or not.

Void NargacugaMar 12, 20161 votes

Then that is all you need to do. No need to post on the boards.

Shinji lkariMar 12, 20162 votes

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Then that is all you need to do. No need to post on the boards.

If that was all I needed to do, then I wouldn't see any AFKers in my matched. This post is made to make sure there is an awareness that this is happening frequently. Maybe not to you, but it is happening to others. For all the AFKs I've reported, haven't gotten one ban notification. So yes, I do need to post it on boards. Maybe someone will do something about it and make playing this game not like playing a lottery.

If you want to be negative and toxic, you don't need to post here.

Void NargacugaMar 12, 20161 votes

I'm not being negative or toxic.

Please remember this and it still applies to AFKs: You mute the player so you don't have to deal with them. You report the player so others don't have to deal with them.

Good luck and I hope you don't get an AFK in your next matches.