Riot, seriously consider giving harsher punishments for AFKs during the beginning of the season

Ben Sharpio·11/18/2016, 7:42:06 PM·10 votes·562 views

Almost every other game i have had an AFK on my team, or on the enemy team. It's getting really obnoxious, and it isn't fun to play 4 v 5 so. damn. often.

Thing is, this happens every season. People afk i'd say 5x as much as mid season/end of the season.

I pray that it's not just me who gets such a heavy amount of afkers.

(AND YES, i just got out of a game with an AFK teammate. 3/7 games)

4 Comments

Mecha Jax11/20/2016, 10:14:37 AM1 votes

/Remake if they are afk at the start of the game... If they are afk later on report them at the end. I do not think harsher punishments are too appropriate except for consistently afk players. Real life needs to come first sometimes we have no idea what goes on in people's lives while they play the game and sometimes its an emergency. One time I was in the middle of a league game with a friend and my carbon monoxide detector went off. I had to grab my dog and get outside while the fire department was called. Even if the fire department said it was ok to stay inside during this time (they said everyone needed to vacate the building) I would have stayed outside for my safety.

I also think low priority queue is a great punishment since any time spent waiting getting into a queue is time spent rethinking doing anything to put you in that situation again. My friend had a 20 minute wait time for his queues but that was for his bad internet not for afking.

Telephone Booth11/21/2016, 10:49:51 PM1 votes

Damn... my experience is nothing like yours lol. I don't play that much pre season but so far I've only had 1 afk in like 10 games... and it was someone in our curse call.