to this point, a game with afker is 50% for me
if I would like to play with ai, I would just go to vs ai mode
and maybe I have free 10min, but they are not free enough to just spend them waiting for a game to end !!
so dear blizzard, I urge you to make a quick solution to this before it is too late !!
you used to send me an email per week for confirmation of action taken against afkers, but now its been more than 8month I didnt receive anything from you …
ibb(dot)co/gSCGfBr
so as you can see, its too much to have 50% of lost games because of people ruining the game on purpose, and who knows, maybe all the wins are because of the afkers in the enemy team !!
so pls save whats left of this game (all recordings have been made today)
and more just to show you that these are the typical aram games !!
Treating the mental game like it’s not even a factor is the real failure in these clips. Honestly some of those guys had some decent teams but they didn’t even want to try.
That is real unlucky then. I do have them occasionally as well, those types, but not as frequently as you. It’s even more annoying when they’re mad about something stupid and decide to semi afk, but you’re doing pretty well despite teh afk. Like the ETC game of yours. Dragging the game out to 21 minutes with an intentional afk. Would have been an easy win if not for the troll.
Pretty much, if your aiming for a mode where people care, you gotta go ranked, evilmushroom.
It might be silly that you have to go “serious” to be taken serious in this game.
But that’s kinda just it, you can’t expect to enter casual mode and expect casuals to take a game seriously.
I myself enjoy ARAMs because i can do whatever i want, build however i want and playwhatever i want.
If there ever was an ARAM ranked, then i would 100% guarantee you, that you would be bored out of your mind playing it.
Because you would see the same heroes every match, you would see the same strats every match, and basicly you would be repeating your first match for the entire time your bothered enough to play ARAM ranked.
Id be carefull calling those guys that are toxic out of this world saying “If you don’t follow my orders i will go AFK” serious.
A seriousy player would rarely bother to chat, and would continue a match that doesn’t go in their favour early, because they know every game can turn.
On the note of no one going AFK in SL, ofc people do, but less people do, ofc this number increases the further down in rank you go, but you want a serious mode then ranked is the place to be.
Also asking people not to go AFK, is obviously not too much, but it’s ARAM; nobody cares.
And the losers that doesn’t like the draft (thinking it is lost based on draft lol) or thinking that it is over based on the enemy team getting 10 kills early to then proceed with going AFK, has become extremly common in ARAMs.
I mean you could seriously make someone go AFK by not building Orb as Ming, that is how unserious ARAM is.
Though the heroes are random, there are those that are considered viable and those that are not, example your more than likely too see ATLEASt 1 player getting Tassadar, Azmodan, Sylvanas, Zul’jin, Valla or any other heroes that excell in ARAMs.
And those heroes will be picked 100% of the time in a potential ranked mode.
Those heroes that are less viable or not viable at all, won’t see play so you will end up with close to exactly the same comps every match you play despite it being “random”.
depends on what you mean by “care”
if you mean tryharding and playing for the win no matter what and pick only HGC comps
then ofc no, nobody care about that in aram, and nobody should
but if you men not care about someone ruining the game on purpose … then I would desagree with you, because I do care, and it is not right to do so, even if it is aram
to make it clear, Im totally fine with having 5murlocs in a team, trying funny comps/builds etc … but throwing and ruining the game on purpose is totally not okay !!
Except a lot of people do. Like all the players that enjoy ARAM whose matches gets ruined by afkers.
Extremely common? Not in my experience.
yeah. The same could happen in SL.
That is pretty much already the case.
And you didn’t really answer the question; or rather, dodged it. It’s ARAM. You don’t have control over it, you can’t literally draft what you want, so it wont be the same heroes and same strats.
of course there’ll be “must picks” but that’s already how it is.
I just really dislike the whole attitude of “It’s ARAM, what do you expect?” as if saying that it’s my own fault that I’m not enjoying my games because of afks and trolls because, afterall, it’s just the stupid un-serious ARAM no one cares about!
Or you could easily describe it as a FUNMODE, where crazy things SHOULD happen. That’s why I dislike that Hammer or Leo is removed… even Rag’s wave. Only Vikings makes sense as this hero is really odd in a 1 lane map.
Missunderstand me correctly here, i agree with you that people SHOULD care.
I don’t agree with peoples action of going AFK, that is far from ok.
But you are entering a mode where people in general have few consequensen and doesn’t care, or let’s say atleast 50% doesn’t care.
Alot of people don’t which is why your games are being ruined by AFKs and toxic players.
You can’t argue over that, facts are being shown.
Pretty much every ARAM game i play, i do enjoy playing things like Valeera and other niche picks in ARAM, which would explain why i experience it alot, i would then assume you would pick “properly” in an ARAM match, which is why you experience less.
In what, bronze?
I am on my 5th smurf account, 2 of them have been in bronze, i might have experienced this in SL 2 or 3 times.
I have played since beta aswell.
So saying it COULD happen in SL, is not untrue, but the odds of someone bothering to do so in a ranked vs ARAM is uncomparable.
You are kinda counter arguing your self here, because your starting out with “This is exactly how it is.” to then go “Well this isn’t how it is, you can’t controll it”
The odds of you not having any of those heroes that you want for ANY of the players, is so unlikely that you will probably experience it once every 100 games.
Which to be is not a statistic to even consider.
It’s not your fault for disliking the attitudes, everyone agrees with you, i bet even those guys doing it agrees with you in hindsight, or just in general when others do it.
But you are entering a mode for extremly casual players.
You don’t enter a candy shop to then complain when kids run into you.
Because it is a candy shop, and you would expect kids to be there and most kids won’t behave in a decent maner in a shop, so you should expect the kids to be running into you.
The thing is, it’s not for “extremely casual players.” It’s not for “normal casual players either”
It’s just ARAM. It’s a weird mode, but that doesn’t make it casual by any means.
Do you even know what casual means?
Really?
Sad…
What facts are being shown?
And considering that the people who ruin ARAM like so are in the minority then that would normally mean that the majority care, not the other way around.
Do you? Like Yasu said, it’s a fun mode.
Casual means that it isn’t ment to be taken seriously, you don’t compete, your having fun.
Much like The Sims is a Casual game, you don’t compete, your having fun without being worried about any form of competative parts of it.
It’s wierd to see you be so condesanding towards someone having a different way of playing the game than you, after you ended your friendship with someone over their view in the game because you got really offended for some wierd reason, based on them having a different opinion than you do.
The OP litterally posted videos for you to review.
You got me there, the majority actually cares, since there is usually just 1 person ruining the games, yet it is stil nearly every game.
But yes the majority of players then behave in an ok maner, that doesn’t mean the majority actually cares, because behaving decently and caring for the mode is 2 different things.
I for one don’t enter ARAMs expecting my team to win, i enter it to have fun, and try out new things or play builds for the fun of it.
I would expect the majority to treat ARAMs like that, as it after all is a CASUAL mode.
Actually that’s not what casual means. Casual just means less frequently than competetive, not less tryhard. A casual player plays fewer games and plays for fun, but he can still aim for the win and tryhard like Liewec.
Uh, no. Casual refer to people who don’t play games a lot because they’re busy IRL or just generally are bad at games because they don’t play a lot. but they can still be serious about it. Hell, they could be even more serious about it than a normal player because they can only play very little.
It’d be a lot more annoying to have a game ruined by a troll/afker when you can only play 1-2 games a day, every other day, than how annoying it would be for a person who’s playing his 16th match in a day to have a match ruined.
Because I find smurfing to be dishonorable? And it’s also against the ToS? For the most part the only reason to smurf is to stomp on beginners and lower ranked people, because fighting against equally skilled players is too hard.
And it appears you still think of my perspective on that thread as weird, even though Sami agreed that he was wrong and ought to change…
And you still didn’t get that it wasn’t about “opinions” but about being “prejudiced and discriminatory”.
This is like saying that being a racist is an opinion you should respect.
Those aren’t really facts. Facts would be something like Blizzards internal statistics that show that 12.5% of ARAM has leavers or something, as an example pulled out of thin air.
A few videos aren’t facts.
It’s not against the rules to smurf. Even if it was, it’s unenforceable and unenforced. Check out on twitch and the majority of pro hots players are streaming on smurf accounts.
Despite it being morally wrong to do so, it’s not against the rules
You’re right, it isn’t against the ToS… atleast it seems so.
But yeah, it’s an immoral thing to do, to put it lightly. Smurfs are killing the game because they can’t handle the challenge of fighting against equally skilled opponents. Or because they simply can’t live without the thrill of stomping on players far beneath yourself.
It probably would be against the ToS if Hots was massively popular or if Smurfs weren’t a weird way that the game probably profits.
If you can have a smurf in LoL you can have a smurf in hots. Smurfs probably hurt game population but game design and/or advertisement is much more impactful on player retention
