What should be done about AFKers?

Kangaroo Wololo·1/22/2017, 4:43:31 AM·3 votes·403 views

No one likes them. It is disrespectful. Letting people get away with it is not a good thing regarding responsibility. AFKers can #@$!($!)!%(^@$%^+

These are just a few of the descriptions I and others may tell people when talking about the rage quitters or people who legitimately have real life situations that are more important than this game. Remember that, this is just a game. However no one likes to deal with 4v5 or worse. So I want to hear what your opinions are on the matter. Personally though with the way the games are going right now with ADC not being in a good position with the tank meta being back (seriously its like season 5 all over again) the game can be quite frustrating at times and by no means is this game balanced right now. Sure some parts of it are pretty decent but some others (cough Yasuo cough) are just laughable when someone tries to bring up their balance as justified. But I am not here to go down the long rabbit hole about the balance of the game. I am here to give you my opinion on AFKers and what should be done about them as they are becoming increasingly prevalent. It's not real life, it's a game, it's gonna happen, deal with it. But there is no need to have a 20 minute lower priority que for repeated offenders. Just let it be 5 minutes every time because making someone wait longer is just going to piss them off more. Sure you could say you have to bring down the hammer and enforce it but this is not real life, it's a game and people will act different accordingly. Increasing the penalty on AFKers is not the solution Riot. Making your game more balanced is. That is my opinion. So what are your opinions?

13 Comments

Sarutobi1/22/2017, 6:26:29 AM2 votes

I dont get the point of this thread. Everyone agrees that AFK is a problem (any online game deals with this problem) but the one solution for is a penalty of waiting to join in a queue. Its suppose to be a punishment and like everything else when you repeat the problem the punishment gets harsher. If you are having disconnection problem the right thing to do is fix the problem, not join up in the queue and play in the hopes that the game doesnt get disconnected. But why do you want them to get rid of the only solution we have at the moment? You basically want to give people who intentionally leave games less time to do more damage to the game. 5mins really isnt a punishment at all (in my opinion) anyone can watch a video on youtube to pass the time. 20mins is somewhat understandable because its basically watching a tv show.

What what solution do you think will help solve the problem is 20mins is too long?

xelaker1/23/2017, 1:12:16 AM2 votes

i wish people would afk rather than feed like they do in my games...

Magical Player1/22/2017, 10:13:01 PM1 votes

I don't want to be a downer, but when you get to ranked the game actually begins Normals are not really a good example of balanced gameplay. IN addition you don't have full runes/masteries And your plat friends, could have very poor normal ranking in which case you're being mismatched Yasou, is strong and often banned. However to simply say he is broken is not good. He matches his purpose very well. same with all ad assassins