why does everyone get punished for one afk?

noodles073·12/4/2019, 10:48:04 PM·4 votes·3,908 views

one person dies about 3 minutes in, goes afk. you cant really come back from that. so you lose lp for someone else being a toxic asshat and they get 5 minutes of a delay on their games (sometimes) after they wasted 20 minutes for 4 other people. doesn't really make sense, does it? one person loses 45 minutes, and wastes 80 minutes of other people's time, and lost them lp on top of that. so why isnt there some option like a remake for someone that goes afk before 5 minutes or so? i understand not having that later in the game in so you cant just have someone leave a losing game, but a game can't be won or lost in the first 5 minutes, unless you lose a player.

8 Comments

Tele II12/4/2019, 11:02:30 PM2 votes

Just to be fair about the wording. The afk player loses LP AND gets the extra timer. It just comes off like you're trying to make it sound like you lose more than him.. there was a lot of sauce on that summary of what happens. Theyre losing more than you by AFKing technically. And if time is the issue, and you know its only 5 minutes or whatever, and you know you are gonna lose, then why arent you just leaving too?

Anyway, thats a shitty situation any way you look at it lol. I have no solution other than doing something like DOTA where you are safe to leave at some point, but I dont know exactly how that works and if it would be better, considering league is a much bigger game. Maybe that has huge flaws in it too.

Ive heard your idea being brought up, but theres some major holes in that too. People think that that idea would sort of increase toxicity with players trying to get teammates to leave so they can remake. If you give up first blood, theres gonna be a lot of okay leave so we can remake, you fucked us. Its over already, just remake. Fucking leave!!! Its your fault, you leave!! Lol.

Silent Gravity12/5/2019, 3:43:46 AM1 votes

AFKing is a problem. No doubt.

The lost LP isn't a problem though. In every game where you don't go AFK there are 9 other players who all have an equal chance of going AFK. 5 of them are on the opposing team and only 4 are on your team. Over a large enough sample size, you will always gain more LP from games with AFK players than you lose (unless you cause people to AFK >25% more than average).

Clockwork Mouse12/5/2019, 5:27:21 AM1 votes

Well this is an issue that comes with playing an online game. It is not like you can force someone to play for the full game's duration as if it were a sport. Only thing i can say it to just expect it to happen every now and then so not to get tilted when it does happen.

Lost R12/5/2019, 5:40:25 AM1 votes

They don't, and that's the problem. If they did, over 90% of the entire community would be permanently banned tomorrow.

One can dream.