Guild Wars 2

Just been reading through some people’s thoughts about players afking during matches. I agree that there is a lot of people who “rage quit” and afk on purpose due to losing and can cause the other players on their team distress and a lot of frustration.

But is it necessary for there to be a “report” for this. Seems a bit harsh. Some afker’s may generally be afk. Personally I wouldn’t want to be reported if I akitten for a genuine reason, and the reason mainly being that I have a 1 year old son to look after. I don’t always afk.. actually it is quite rare, but that moment could happen at any time… that’s just my situation and there is probably many more people in the same boat

We need to come up with some ideas where an afk’er can get punished for being afk, but not too harsh… not everyone does it on purpose.

VixNIN.7403:

But is it necessary for there to be a “report” for this.

I don’t think so.
If we had a system to automatically limit people who afk (read as increasing timeouts for each infraction) for any reason (including leaving to deal with other humans even if they are cute / tiny) then it would negate the need of players to report someone.

When a PvP match starts if someone leaves I believe they should tracked and appropriately encouraged to not AFK in the future.

Leaving a pvp match causes a dis-service to your teammates and should be a punishable offence IMO.