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Riot, can we please have a system for dealing with AFKs?

Riot, can we please have a system for dealing with AFKs?

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Started by Clifford Bowe 12 years ago
First things first. League of Legends is, by far, the most played video game in the world. This equates to millions of players world wide playing this game. League of Legends matches are 25-45 minute segments of time, in which you need to sit at your computer, occupied, for said time. You can leave for a few seconds, maybe a minute or two. But to be effective, especially at higher levels, you need to be there for most of it.


In an ideal world, everyone would play out their matches for the entire time. This world is not ideal. Computers will crash, situations will pop up, someone will need you, This is, at the end of the day, a game, and things can pop up to interrupt said game. Understandable.


But while that is understandable, the other nine people in the match suffer for it. Of course, the "winning" team probably doesn't mind too much, but the losing team has to suffer through a 15-20 minute (at minimum) match, with which there's little to no chance of winning. It's unsatisfying, frustrating and just an all-around unpleasant experience.


Here is what I'm asking for Riot Games. We've all heard that, in the pipes, there's a system set up to deal with games where they have an AFK. I ask that this be "moved up" in the timeline, assuming it's actually being developed. This is an aspect of the game that would really help every single player that values their League of Legends matches. I have a few suggestions as well, that I feel would be useful, and am just mentioning them as something to think about:


1.) If you have an AFK, then enable automatic loss prevented, at the very least. Winning team get the LP, Losers get Loss Prevented.


2.) To ensure no abuse, make it so that the person has to be afk (I define this as sitting in fountain) for 75% - 80% of their time in game or more.


That's all I ask. I understand, it's your game. You can do what you like. But take it from me, MILLIONS will be much happier if there's something to deal with people that go AFK in game.


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Ryan Yoon
11 years ago Featured

This won't work because then the MMR will inflate because the "winners" get lp and the "losers" who had an afk will not actually lose lp. Also then riot would have to try and stop people from abusing the loss prevented. Example: Someone on the team is like, oh I might lose this game because of my team are all bronze and have horrible kda because I checked on lolnexus, I will just afk to get loss prevented.