Guild Wars 2

I’ll just leave this here.

Out of 20 last matches I played in soloQ I counted 16 AFK-ers and/or leavers. Sometimes in my team, sometimes in enemy team. 14 out of 20 matches were affected (in 2 cases there were two of them in single match). In case a team had AFK-er or leaver, this team always lost. I will continue to gather this statistic and will see how it will evolve over next months.

I am not really sure if I should be sad or should I rage (probably a mix of both). There is only one solution. Make the penalty for leaving/AFK harsh. Much more from what it is now. I know this goes against the casual and friendly atmosphere of the game, but there is no other option. Whip is the only language some people will understand. When you press the join queue button, you are making a commitment to play a match and to respect the time and effort of other players joining that queue. The attitude of “lol nobody cares, this is teh internets” should be purged.

Anet can’t force peoples to stay if they want to leave, even penalty may not work unless 24hr spvp+WvW ban in 2 quits withing 24 hrs I would rather see some kind of perma boon given to the peoples that is short on 1 or 2 players.. something like few stacks of might+increased health/endurance regen and increasing health pool. It still not enough, but will make us feel better

#freeweekend

I know this is an issues outside of this weekend, but likely a lot worse this weekend.

Yeh I’ve ruined my rating by attempting to solo queue on free weekend. I think I’ll avoid doing anymore until it is over.

Magnobear says fix Afk/dishonor Anat!!

A queue for a solo-q match can take 5-10 minutes during which time there will be people whom have forgotten they queued. This results in AFK players at the start of the match. It is unfortunate, but I see this happen quite often and becomes frustrating. Ideally, if the queue time were faster this might be less of an issue.

Possible solution: boot everyone back into queue if not all 10 players have entered the map before the count down timer and penalize the AFK player with dishonor.

Speaking of dishonor, players should get a warning on their first offense and get increasing timeout time for each additional offense there after. Requiring 5 offense before a penalty is too lax. Many casual players don’t even play 5 games to have any impact. Likely they are clueless of such system too.

Krayiss.4926:

Magnobear says fix Afk/dishonor Anat!!

Hahaha. That image. Very creative use of trial accounts.
Rank 3 is hilarious.

kirito.4138:

Possible solution: boot everyone back into queue if not all 10 players have entered the map before the count down timer and penalize the AFK player with dishonor.

QFE.

I can definitely say that 1/3 of my lost games are due to some afkers, and I just played 2 matches with afkers. I’ve had enough, something has to be done. Otherwise, soloQ leaderboard is literaly a measurement of who’s lucky, and who’s not.

Poplolita.2638:

Otherwise, soloQ leaderboard is literaly a measurement of who’s lucky, and who’s not.

It already is.

Only place you won’t see much afk is in the upper end of the leaderboard since those people obviously don’t want to lose and actually have something to lose.

Just played 6 games straight that were 4v5. Sadly the leaver was always on my side. I’m deffinitely not continuing to play solo que until they fix that.

Solo Q is totally ridiculous and something needs to be done ASAP.

Far too many matches have an afk problem and it’s corrupting the game.

It’s not like old-school subscription MMOs. These people aren’t paying to play each month, so the penalty needs to be very harsh.

Bad PC and connection problems are the PLAYERS fault too, so catering to the few who aren’t intentionally akitteng isn’t the answer.

All yall need to stop whining.
Stop over exaggerating as well.

Pictures or it aint never happened.
#ainthardtoscreenshot

I’ve played 14 matches of solo queue in total, just started doing this recently. Of those 14 matches, 10 had a 5v4 or worse. In only 1 case did the team with the less number of people win.

The dishonored buff is a good first step, but it needs to be much more harsh. My proposal would be each stack would last 3 days, and at 3 stacks the player receives an automatic 24 hour ban, with the ban time increasing based on how many times you’ve been banned within the past 2 weeks or something.

For those of you who would say ‘but what about people with bad internet,’ people with bad internet don’t deserve to play tournaments. Joining a tournament is a commitment for your team, and if you leave for ANY reason, whether it be bad internet or bad attitude, you have let down your team, and deserve punishment.

uberkingkong.8041:

All yall need to stop whining.
Stop over exaggerating as well.

Pictures or it aint never happened.
#ainthardtoscreenshot

Here, just now! No, we didn’t win.

Pyroatheist.9031:

I’ve played 14 matches of solo queue in total, just started doing this recently. Of those 14 matches, 10 had a 5v4 or worse. In only 1 case did the team with the less number of people win.

The dishonored buff is a good first step, but it needs to be much more harsh. My proposal would be each stack would last 3 days, and at 3 stacks the player receives an automatic 24 hour ban, with the ban time increasing based on how many times you’ve been banned within the past 2 weeks or something.

For those of you who would say ‘but what about people with bad internet,’ people with bad internet don’t deserve to play tournaments. Joining a tournament is a commitment for your team, and if you leave for ANY reason, whether it be bad internet or bad attitude, you have let down your team, and deserve punishment.

Calm down. dude its just a game (anyway) thats a little overboard. period.. honestlly just instead of u can leave 5 times before u get dishonored.. just. make it 1 time.. dont see how hard that is. play or get dishonored seems fine to me.. and honestly its not always a net problem. during the past week. Guild Wars 2 Client itself has been kicking me from the game WHY? i have no idea and still have no idea even when sending in a ticket.. so you gotta open ur eyes dog and learn that is not always an internet problem. there are countless reasons as to why that 5th person hasnt shown up. now if that said person has shown up and is sitting in spawn the whole time. then yea i think there should be a team vote kick. to kick that said afk person off the team and have some sort of matchmaking system that recruits another player.

Dishonor needs immediate & incremental punishment instead of waiting until 5 stacks. Don’t think i know of anyone that gotten the 3day dishonor ban yet.

1st dishonor, warning msg
2nd 15min time out
3rd 30min time out
4th 60min time out etc…

Mentioned this ages ago.

4 vs 5= 4 man team get 20% more points from holding nodes and stomps until a 5th person joins. They will in all likelihood lose anyway, but it will keep the score competitive and stealing the odd forest creature etc at least adds the chance of stealing a victory from what would probably be a certain loss.

They also need to adjust leaderboard to solo performance, or just not have it at all. I was getting good matches until a string of afk/leavers lead to multiple losses on the trot. I went from playing against champion slayers/ransacker/avengers to playing crab tossers/combat healers. The standard was noticable. You could clearly see the difference between purposeful players and those who were just giving it a go.

Giving benefits to the team with a number disadvantage is a very bad idea, since we would hear this every single game:
“Please kittening leave dude. You are so kittening bad we would rather have the advantage buff.”
You should just get a 30 minute penalty for leaving a game, and then increase it for every leave within a certain time period.