I have not touched this game in almost two months and i come back and play 13 games of storm league in a few days and I have had 5 afks who just sat at base until the game kicked them then they rebooted and went back to base.
This is exactly why no one wants to play this game, You got a bullcrap report system that punishes people with no actual actions but afks will be ignored forever. Games dead people blizzard gave up and its time for us to do the same.
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why do you keep coming back if you hate this game so much? Deep down I know you do love this game or you wouldnât be coming back. Just get out of silver league and youâll see it gets better. Soak, donât die more than 2-3 times per game (or you played bad and deserved to lose) and split push a lot. Thats how you climb in lower leagues.
I am diamond buddy. I do love the game but no reason to play when you are hard carrying every single game or at least trying to do so.
Game is 0 fun knowing you have such a high chance at a afk in this game that its killing it.
In every rank, even more so the higher you climb you have to aim to âcarry yourselfâ in every game, thatâs the basic expectation on yourself if youâre playing competitively.
As for having 5 AFK/Troll players in a row, it happens. Iâm not in Diamond like you, but only Platinum, but I had the same a few weeks, it was for me 7 games with deliberate AFK players. I didnât even come to the forums and complain about it. One of those games my team managed to win, with the AFK player sitting in spawn denying us even the AI.
I agree with you Blizzard should be, and should always have been tougher on people who grief games, rather than how much attention they put into Abusive Chat. The thing is, even if they were more strict and had better systems in place, youâre still going to get unlucky from time to time.
I bet you were toxic, chewed them out, and didnât report. Youâd have to have done all three otherwise thereâs a chance the system worked for you and youâd have nothing to complain about
I donât think itâs fair to say he was toxic. Itâs probably true though when you said he didnât report. According to someone who once posted here from CS, apparently players massively under report for AFK/Intentionally dying players.
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True. First part is only a hunch but I still bet my opinion is on.
I stand by it but I wouldnât presume it was 100%. Just definitely not 0%.
Ban system haters donât like reporting because they know itâs a slippery slope that leads back to them.
Something something every time you point a finger something 3 fingers back at you.
I dont play with chat on. If you speak in game you get punished.
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I hope you reported the AFK players? People donât do so enough, which is why they constantly go unpunished.
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Ye if people forget to report people after a game then its obvious the afk wont get reported.
I mostly do it when iâm dead or when core is going down and half team is already dead or at the score screen if not.
I already had 22 e-mails so far but ofc I dont know which players that those 22 effected. If those 22 are from people I reported 2-3 years ago then its close to waste of time to report really.
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I do but never seems to do anything.
Iâve posted it a few times, but Iâll post again: I donât think the vast majority of those even leave on purpose.
Their toaster PC or laptop crashes because it canât handle HotS. You can often see them reconnecting and disconnecting 2-3 times as the match starts, then they are permanently gone.
It would be nice if Blizzard forced the âvery lowâ settings for computers detected as very old, or even incorporated that mod from Reddit that enables âextremely lowâ settings that eliminate crashing on toasters almost fully.
https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/g3piro/i_reprogrammed_hots_so_you_can_play_it_on_a_poor/
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This happens all the time and I am fed up with it as well. Why am I getting a troll each game while the enemy team is a 3+ man premade with no trolls. I as a player am discouraged when someone is afking at base or trying to lose the game on purpose cause there is nothing you can do. Even at my level I can not always hard carry these players and even if you do, that isnt fixing the problem.
This is a good point and I donât know what players expect Blizzard to do about it. Itâs the risk you take in solo queue, you might get unlucky and be matched 3 games in a row with someone who AFKâs unintentionally or purposefully.
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Now how about the people who just hearth back to base, only to use a skill or ability to transport them into lane only to hearth back to base to avoid the afk timer?
Thatâs bannable. If you report those people theyâll have plenty of data of those playersâ very low stats every single game while barely moving at all. Should be enough to permanently lock the acc.
Iirc, afk penalties are manually handed out unlike the abusive chat ones so that could take a while though. They send you an email if they got banned or suspended.
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ok so then what about me getting these players almost every 3rd game? Like nothing is being done about that. If you get a game loss and someone in that game was banned, you should get your points back
Thatâs been suggested forever, and it should be a feature. Sadly it isnât.
At least give us back 10-20% of our points if we had an afk like that.
The person who left would be deducted the forgiveness points from.
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Exactly so what is encouraging players to play ranked when they are gonna lose a third of their games due to afks?
If they canât or wonât implement proper AFK loss forgiveness, then I love your suggestion. Why they donât just do this and havenât is baffling. Especially now when you consider how wonky the AI replacement is.
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