Riot, Do ******* Something about AFK/Leavers

ChrisCavs·Jul 15, 2016·1 votes·656 views

I just got out of a game where a player disconnected, then reconnected, and just AFKed the whole game till we ff. At the end when we were chastising him about it, he writes:

"ill jerk it to your saltiness :)"

Scumbags like this player are everywhere in league, and it's because Riot does absolutely nothing to punish players who leave games or ruin games by going AFK. These people think it's a joke because even though they ruin game after game, Riot does nothing to punish them. And even though there have been countless games where a player is reported, absolutely nothing happens to them.

I mean honestly, what does a player have to do to be banned? Throw their baby arm into jesus's face? I've seen people make racist, homophobic, and sociopathic comments in game WHILE SITTING IN FOUNTAIN, and they get away scot free even after 9 players report them.

~~EVERY TIME YOU LEAVE A GAME, you should be banned for a minimum of 2 hours~~ ("Edit: 1 hour, after failing to reconnect within 5-10 minutes"). In my mind, this is exceedingly generous. We shouldn't need to "report" players in the after screen for disconnecting. Riot, you know when summoners purposefully AFK or disconnect. Punish them instead of making us waste our time reporting them only for NOTHING TO HAPPEN, LITERALLY EVER, TO ANYONE. It's so exceedingly frustrating for 1 in 3 games to end because of a disconnect or AFK. It ruins everyone's fun, and only further perpetuates the toxic culture all around this game.

DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE PROBLEMS IN THIS GAME, instead of sitting around "reworking" champions that work just fine (cough cough, ryze).

9 Comments

RageQ2Jul 15, 20161 votes

The problem with this is that there will be moments where these disconnections are not the players fault, sure there are people that do disconnected and I've done the same. At the same time my league has either given me a crash for no reason at all or my lag exceeds to a point where it says I've left game. If based on your words, this happened, there would be people waiting 2 hours for no reason other than league itself messing their exciting experience on league. This is probably one of the biggest problems rito is having. My suggestion would be to have a specific amount of time can leave a game, to a certain extent the time goes longer until you can't join a game and have to create a form of request to remove this form of "ban". Not only will this give the players the idea of leaving as bad, but would also help rito get into the forums more which they said they don't really take into mind as much as other things. Just my opinion though.

ChrisCavsJul 15, 20161 votes

You're absolutely right, there are a lot of disconnects that aren't the player's fault. I think that the ban should kick in if you disconnect and then fail to reconnect within 5-10 minutes. There should also be a system of tracking the number of "actions" a player makes (which riot already has given they have warnings that pop up when you go afk) and if they fail to make a certain number of actions by the 20 minute mark, they are banned immediately.

RageQ2Jul 15, 20161 votes

That's sound great to me, as long as there is a pre-warning sent out just to give the players who are doing this, a warning therefore telling them that it's bad to do such a thing. Possibly 1-2 games free of bans every now and then, following what Leaver Buster originally does.

MarshbouyJul 15, 20161 votes

This is terrible misinformed. They actually do punish players. It's called leaverbusters.

Do you know that they get away scott free? They don't.

banned for a min of 2 hours. kinda like the 5 20minute queues you get now?

Different teams at RIOT do different things.

ChrisCavsJul 15, 20161 votes

"Different teams at riot do different things": Yes. But how many people are on each team? What kind of funding does each receive? Does the team in charge of player behavior understand that the biggest problem in the game is leavers? This isn't a fair criticism of my post.

"Do you know that they get away scott free? They dont.": are you sure? Because people leave games all the time and don't get punished. I'm unaware of the specifics of how leaver-buster functions, and what the leeway is here. But in my experience in the last 3 years, 1 out of 3 games ends up having an AFK/leaver problem. just because there is a leaverbuster doesn't mean it perfectly addresses the problem.

"Banned for a min of 2 hours. kinda like the 5 20 minute queues you get now?": I'm not sure why you have this here. I feel like queue time is a separate issue (which needs to be addressed). The ban would be 1 hour or so, and then you'd have to deal with queue times after.

MarshbouyJul 15, 20161 votes

It is a fair criticism. you just don't think it is. A gaming company would rather have people working on new content then trying to think up shitty ways to punish people who afked.

how do you know? you have yet to tell me how you know? Of course it doesn't perfectly address the problem. Nothing has a perfect solution.

But why? People already complain about bugsplatting and getting a leaverbuster. The complaints would only be worse.

ChrisCavsJul 15, 20161 votes

Yeah you're not wrong, I like new content. I just really, really, REALLY hate leavers. And I know because i make it a habit to friend people when i report them to see if they get banned. not a perfect system though.

Bugsplatting?

MarshbouyJul 15, 20161 votes

bugsplatting is crashing. It brings up a bug splat report form and was henceforth nicknamed buggsplatting.

people crash in load screen and get the /remake in the game before they can reconnect.