Guild Wars 2

I just finished a ranked game, in which a random team-“mate” chose to feed and AFK, because he got angry.

Let me tell you how it happened:

Myself and 2 other guild-mate queued up as a 3-man pre-made, and so get 2 randoms.
We got the map “Temple of the Silent Storm”, and even though it was a close match, we were winning quite obviously.
When Tranquility was up, almost the entire enemy team was down there, and I tried to stop them – Which resulted in me simple slowing them down.
Now this did not please one of our randoms, who proceeded to write “Thx for ignoring buffs”. To this I replied “Dude – Shut. Up.” (He really hadn’t done much the entire match, and I got kinda annoyed, by that comment.).
After that little exchange he got quite cross, and began using an wide assortment of slurs. He also figured that going AFK was not enough, no – He needed to start feeding.

During all of this he vent keyboard-warrior-mode, while the rest of the team was now losing a 4v5 where the enemies got 5 free points every time he respawned.

I get that this sort of behavior is unavoidable in an online game, but after both AFK’ing, feeding AND being a general jerk, all my team and I could do was to report him for “Verbal Abuse” . . .

Why are we not able to report someone for ruining a perfectly good 5v5? He solo-queues and then deliberately throws the match, ruining it for 4 other people, and we can do nothing about it? That does not seem like something that will breed a healthy community.

I don’t blame the guy since the matchmaking system is so bad and losing many games in a row it is easy to get people mad. Try to be a little nicer to your teammates and they will have less of a chance to afk.

While I get that telling people to shut up, isn’t the nicest way of doing things, I don’t see how it makes sense that I have to tiptoe around the place out of fear of a 4+feeder v 5.

If he truly have spent all his patience losing matches, he must have played enough to know that he can’t know what happens, if he isn’t there – And that you can’t just solo-queue and expect to boss your team around, while you idle at a point… People who team-queue use TeamSpeak (I hope!) or something similar, and therefore have superior coordination, compared to someone who has to type.

People keep trying to blame ‘matchmaking system’, it’s low population which no system can magically fix. Ruining the game for others just drives the population even lower.