More AFK'ers / Leavers then ever, but why?

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I want to shine some :flashlight: on this subject.

I have noticed a substantial increase :chart_with_upwards_trend: in AFK’ers & Leavers in Q.M, and lower ranked matches . ( Bronze - Plat )

but I honestly im confused to why this is happening. :confused:

As I don’t have much knowledge past platinum 2 as I am an average skilled player :sunglasses:. However if some higher ranked players would be willing to discuss their experiences on this subject it would most definitely help.

I will admit that the frequency in which this takes place in ranked is less then Q.M. but is still sustainably higher then before.

to put in a matter of perspective, :desktop_computer:

I never once had a leaver in my ranked matches that opening announced that he/she was leaving in chat, before this season . but during this season , However I have had 4 different players do this .

and in Q.M. its quantifiably :abacus: more.

does anyone know why this could be happing ?:thought_balloon::thought_balloon:

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I actually see this happen way more in ranked than in QM. I’ve only started playing the game a few months ago, so I’m still working my way up from bronze. In QM, there’s a leaver maybe once every 5 games, in bronze, it’s almost every game on either side. People in bronze are so easily discouraged. They almost never try to make a comeback if you lose the first team fight. So you have to be good enough to absolutely carry the game if you have a leaver or feeder, and if you win, it doesn’t even feel like a real win, because it was just someone on the other team rage quitting.

I’m experimenting with different heroes to see which is best for mitigating mistakes of leavers and feeders while also securing kills myself. I’ve had some luck as LiLi, Johanna, Falstad, and Li Ming, but I just started playing Zarya today, and maybe she’s the best hero for getting out of bronze.

With Zarya shields, 4v5 fights are more viable when you have a leaver, since the team can stay in the fight and that simultaneously boosts your damage, so you can get kills even if other players are bad. Also, your shield can actually facilitate terrible Illidan and Butcher players to get kills and not die, while simultaneously boosting your damage even if they die. With Zarya, you can simultaneously be top damage on team and turn your teammates’ bad plays into good plays.

Before, my strategy was double soaking and ambushing some kills while staying alive as rest of the team suicides, but now I’m thinking maybe if they want to pointlessly fight mid all day and AFK after losing team fight, maybe I should just shield them and get the kills, so that they don’t AFK in the first place.

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Well for QM blizz got the nice idea to put random sub level 100 in people’s game for starters.
Always nice to see some master ranked guy and a legit level 50 together in a match.

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respectfully ,

that still doesn’t answer why this is happening.

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glad that am not the only one that noticed the increase of trolls and afk’ers, like every other match now it feels like.

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yes, I agree however does anyone know why there is so many afk’er and leavers in the game right now ?

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Maybe it’s just weak mental fortitude in society in general.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/heroes/t/stop-the-no-healer-games-in-qm/20939/19?u=halotestin-1416

A lot of people mentally throw in the towel from the very start of the game if they don’t like the draft, or they have a mental break down if they lose first team fight. Very few people seem to enjoy the challenge of making a come back, yet that’s the most rewarding part of playing.

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but why is it a problem just now ? I don’t remember another time in the last 4 years that its been this bad.

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Because not enough punishment

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Challenge accepted Fizzzyface.

I summon DJPea to summarize this thread only using emoji’s.

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Because there is an increase in number of awful games created by the matchmaker. Games that aren’t worth playing to begin with. It’s the spiral that many who have a clue have been pointing at and that fanboys said would never happen. MM is trash, always been, but relatively large number of people and existance of soloque only made it slightly more palatable. Now when there aren’t many people playing it just creates utter garbage with GMs and silvers in the same game over and over. Those games aren’t worth being played, simple.

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People stopped to care since end of HGC.

I regularly meet afkers, trolls and throwing people in D1 games.
And regularly I mean every third game or so.

Or it can be because of dwindling population of the game and placing low players in high ranks.
Combine that with the bloated MMR from old team league, which became the new MMR for Storm League…

Oh well… nuff said.

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Yup I prob get I AFK/Leaver every 2/3 games

It comes down to the fact that Blizz report or banning system does NOT work. Therefore afk/leavers can freely leave without any drawbacks.

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A number of reasons and this is only my speculation
1 - Matchmaking extends to other players versing other players beyond their skill cap
2 - Matchmaking just sucks in general
3 - Devs are not listening to players therefor players losing trust within the game
4 - the report system, there’s no feedback system that it actually works
5 - people leaving cause they are not punished, therefor they are careless and don’t care

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are you talking about the company or players?

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The only awful game is one where you give up and don’t do your best until the end. That’s a quitter mentality you have: ‘its not perfectly fair, so i won’t try’.

No contest has ever been perfectly even or fair. Never will be, because that’s impossible. if you lose, it’s because you or your teammates failed to play your best. Always.

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People continue to leave the game but the trolls and AFK bots don’t which then increases the rate at which you will see them. Also seeing as anyone with a new account can get raked into Plat without trying that doesn’t help either.

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Well, I have lost like 12 games in a row by potato “teammates” so…
If we are like 3 levels behind and something like 10 - 0 in deaths, yeah, I’ll go afk or go boss suicide trying to end that faster.

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Let me go to my Cerebro machine in my basement and play professor X and read all their minds and I’ll get right back to you on that.

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Ok Done, they value winning over playing the game. If they think can’t win then they want to move on to the next opportunity to win the problem is they don’t know the game well enough to realize that if you can survive long enough you can win 1 or 2 team fights late and steal the game but you have to know what win conditions are and these people don’t,

Casual players playing casually. Can’t win, on to next game cya.

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So how many times do you plan on repeating the same question in different formats ?