Fix your AFK and major problems, Riot.

EugeneSims·2/24/2016, 5:23:51 PM·2 votes·481 views

** Posting in the right category (apparently).

This is getting ridiculous.

The sheer amount of people who have to play 4V5 is disgusting.

Just got two AFK in a ranked game. Pantheon wasn't here for the first ten (or more) minutes of the game. Volibear left and didn't come back. We lost, of course.

How can you say this game is balanced and fair when this happens and no justice is done? I can't afford to constantly lose games because this happens way too often anyways. Not everyone has a premade that can carry them and when you screw me over with this stuff and expect me to take it?

What kind of respect is there towards the players when these things happen?

What can be said about your game when there's no system to punish people more effectively? When people leave games, four or three people are expected to play versus an entire team without getting any sort of advantage? If someone isn't in the game for more than five minutes, terminate the game and send people into the queue or give the underdogs something they can work with; gold advantage, a free dragon buff, whatever.

What can be said about your company when you allow such a different skill gap between players by letting people create God knows how many accounts to Smurf on when their main is such a high ELO? Where's the fairness in that? To have a Diamond player create a new game, level up and then go into ranked versus Bronze people? I don't even understand why you allow more than two accounts per IP address, but I guess you have something to gain from things like these.

I enjoy this game, I really do. It's fun, it keeps me busy, I like seeing new champs, etc.

But when this stuff constantly happens and no word from the staff? What the hell?

Do you think the amount of reworks, new champions, new visuals and whatever aesthetic thing you do is going to overshadow the fact that this game is either snowbally as hell for one team or stuff like this happens and that says a lot about how you handle the fairness of an online, multiplayer game.

Work harder on punishing people who leave games. Work harder on punishing people who are racists, homphobic, etc. Work harder on making this game SOMEWHAT fair for both sides.

No, the winning team isn't to blame for the losing team having an AFK but you shouldn't even allow a game to be considered a victory when one side was severely handicapped. A 4v5 isn't a good game, it isn't fair --- it's frustrating for the people who lost LP, time and patience because there's no way to punish those who weren't there. Punish people better and maybe improve your game...then you'd see less people quitting and making posts like these.

2 Comments

swordartonlineyi2/24/2016, 6:03:30 PM1 votes

Wow. So true. What's funny is, if you read the League boards this is the number 1 complaint of all time. I have seen so many posts about this that I already know what your comment section is going to look like. Let me give u a little preview.

IFeedThereforeIRanked (Bronze 4 NA/ 75% of this community) - Eugene it sounds like your the one to blame! Maybe you hurt that voli's feelings and that's why he went afk. Maybe if you were nicer they wouldn't go afk. I played Twitch top yesterday and died 9 times to start the match. ( I was doing well, but I was being camped/insert some random bullshit excuse). After I went 0-11 my mid laner said "plz stop feeding your lane and play safe :)"..FEEDING MY LANE?!?! I NOT FEED MY LANE?!?!?!? So because constructive criticism offends me so greatly I went AFK in base and reported my teammates at the end. This happens a lot in my games and its CLEARLY my teammates fault. I belong in Silver but because people are mean when I die 10 times before 10 minutes I don't have the emotional stamina to finish matches. Your fault!!

RIOT CLEVER NAME (Admin) - We understand your frustration and are taking 0 countermeasures to fix this glaring problem, mainly because your problem translates into more time and money spent by you. Let me explain. We understand that most games are decided because of trolls and feeders. If they are on your team you lose, if they are on the other team you win. It's that simple. The balance comes into play when the League matchmaking system evenly distributes the feeders from game to game. Because of this "balance" we ensure that you have to play 5-10 X the amount it would normally take to achieve a ranked goal. During that time your more likely to spend money on our game, which is the most important part of League of Legends. Without these "feeders" our matchmaking system would pair you with people in you skill bracket providing you with fun games. Shit, you might even go on a winning streak. That is exactly what we can't have happen. As long as your struggling in a an elo you know you don't belong in you will play our game more and have a greater chance to spend money on it. I hope you understand and we thank you for your patience as we continue to empower those small minded individuals who make your games impossible to win. They are the real cash cows in this industry. Me(silver 5- gold 4 in 2 weeks w/o solo que feeders) - Don't play solo que. Get some friends that are good at the game and you wont have to deal with IFeedThereforeIRanked. Its really the only way to fix this problem as it's clear from RIOT CLEVER NAME's comment they have no intention of dealing with feeders and afk's.

Hope this helps man. Good luck in your future games