What should be done about AFKers?

Kangaroo Wololo··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?

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Sarutobi2 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?

Kangaroo Wololo1 votes

Sarutobi:

Well thank you for your input on the matter. I should say that I forgot to address the more touchy part of this game regarding afks. That would be the ranked system as it really is THE number one place this hatred and disgust for afks comes from. Personally I could care less about ranked and have not cared about it for several years now. The game is too unbalanced for me to think that I could scale my skill as a player in a team based game when it is this broken in many regards. Now to those of you who do value grading yourselves by this system congratulations, you have more patience than I do and I understand your frustration when someone ditches at any point in the game in a ranked setting. Most people are asking Riot for harsher punishments in this setting and I can agree with that. 20 minutes for ranked dodging is barely a slap on the wrist considering how much people care about the results of the game in ranked. While I certainly would not vouch for a permanent ban at any point for just afking, perhaps up to a 3 day ban would get the point across much better. As far as regular games, I would leave it at 5 minutes because its always gonna be a problem and I don't really see punishing afks in a normal setting to be taken as seriously. That is my opinion. What is your thought on that Sarutobi?

Sarutobi1 votes

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Sarutobi:

Well thank you for your input on the matter. I should say that I forgot to address the more touchy part of this game regarding afks. That would be the ranked system as it really is THE number one place this hatred and disgust for afks comes from. Personally I could care less about ranked and have not cared about it for several years now. The game is too unbalanced for me to think that I could scale my skill as a player in a team based game when it is this broken in many regards. Now to those of you who do value grading yourselves by this system congratulations, you have more patience than I do and I understand your frustration when someone ditches at any point in the game in a ranked setting. Most people are asking Riot for harsher punishments in this setting and I can agree with that. 20 minutes for ranked dodging is barely a slap on the wrist considering how much people care about the results of the game in ranked. While I certainly would not vouch for a permanent ban at any point for just afking, perhaps up to a 3 day ban would get the point across much better. As far as regular games, I would leave it at 5 minutes because its always gonna be a problem and I don't really see punishing afks in a normal setting to be taken as seriously. That is my opinion. What is your thought on that Sarutobi?

I mean i dont feel the same way. Yes Rank should be taken more seriously and as a result should face harsher punishment when breaking the rules. With that said though i dont feel like everything should be ok to do in Normals just because. its not right for the people who just play Normals to be teamed up with people who leave, or do anything else to break the rules. if that happens loads of people would leave the game because why bother playing if people can leave the game and cost you the game. Yes it might not be serious, but its still a game mode people play and enjoy. no one likes when someone leave as it leaves their gaming experience in bad taste.

Kangaroo Wololo1 votes

No matter what state of the game it is in people will still dodge. Making punishments harsher runs the risk of making it worse since it will only piss people off more. I think up to a 3 day ban on ranked game dodges will help less people afk but it will always be a sizeable problem. The sooner people will accept that the sooner you may come to the same conclusion I did a while back. It's a game, Ranked is worthless, just play the game for fun.

Magical Player1 votes

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No matter what state of the game it is in people will still dodge. Making punishments harsher runs the risk of making it worse since it will only piss people off more. I think up to a 3 day ban on ranked game dodges will help less people afk but it will always be a sizeable problem. The sooner people will accept that the sooner you may come to the same conclusion I did a while back. It's a game, Ranked is worthless, just play the game for fun.

You're entitled to your opinion, but please don't play ranked with that attitude.

Ranked isn't worthless but it isn't worth dying over. If you're goal is to have fun don't play ranked If you're goal is to get better at the game play ranked

Ranked is meant to be a challenge as often find "elo hell" to be a thing You can enjoy ranked, but don't come in with assumption you're going to enjoy every game

Kangaroo Wololo1 votes

It is honestly not because of bad players or AFKs that I hate Ranked. It is because the game is unbalanced and Riot does not seem to be taking any serious interest in that matter as of late. Frankly there is not too much they can do. Sure some champions kits are overloaded (cough Yasuo passive cough) but honestly I would say its the items themselves that make certain champions overwhelming and that just cannot be simply fixed. I enjoy most of my games but some of the times I do not it is because of the imbalance of the game, which is just further amplified by trying to be serious in ranked mode. The concept of "If you want to get better at the game, play ranked" is simply not true. I play with several of my friends who are high plat and I do just fine in that skill area. Granted I have been playing fairly regularly since season 2 so that helps.

xelaker2 votes

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

Kangaroo Wololo1 votes

I feel the same way Xelaker. I would rather just have to deal with a 4v5 or worse than deal with someone who intentionally feeds.

Magical Player1 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

Kangaroo Wololo1 votes

You talk as if people who hit level 30 never touch normal matches again like its the plague. You can't tell me you have never gone back to a normal match or even coop to wind down for fun after ranked. I used to do that all the time when I did ranked matches. If you did I pity you because you are missing out man.

Magical Player1 votes

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