Something Needs to be Done about AFK in Storm League

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Just had another match where the Thrall was AFK for the first minute then went AFK during the middle of almost every single team fight. Would sit there and dance after people pinged him to participate. Our team decided to sit in the base and let it end quickly.

I think the number one way to fix Storm League would be to strongly begin punishing obvious toxicity. With AI advancing as it is, it shouldn’t be too hard to deal out auto bans for this kind of behavior. Quickmatch is one thing, it is more casual, but Storm League is competitive, and now I’ve got to win a game to undo the total time waste that this AFK / toxic player caused 4 other people.

I’m almost considering logging off for the day, I’m so frustrated. I’d love to know that something was being done to improve / strengthen the ban system in storm league. I’d, for example, be in favor of a 3 day ban, minimum, if a person is a consistent (defined by doing it more than 3x a week) AFK. Repeat offenses? 3 strike rule and then permanent account closure. Hardware bans. IP bans. Etc.

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Amen :banana::banana::banana:

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You really think blizzard cares about this game anymore? lol

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I’m baffled that this game was alive for like 5 years and they did not make a leaver queue. We pay for it now

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This is the weakest part of this game, it doesn’t reward players based on their performance, but on the old stupid win/lose which is great for a group of 5 players, but definitely NOT for rnd team of solo players, there should be an AI that distributes points based on how much the player contributed to the victory in the game!

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