I’m pretty new, played a bit of paladins many years ago and now trying it again. never in my life have I played a game with more afk players in it. idk like 1-2 guys every game just sitting in spawn and makes it a 4v5 for one team. This is only casual/quickplay so doesnt really matter i guess. Are they just crashing or something?
It has so many AFK players because Evil Mojo doesn’t properly punish the behaviour.
They are doing better with bans, but I have to disagree with the other commenter – people do not get banned for AFKing almost at all, if ever. I don’t know if Evil Mojo even has the tools/manpower to look into it, so I think they just ignore all the reports for AFKing.
Evil Mojo is banning much more if you’re outright toxic in chat, but not if you just throw the match for your team. They can even type in chat about how they’re no longer playing the game because your team picked X hero or the support didn’t save them or whatever dumb reason they’re throwing a tantrum over, and Evil Mojo will not punish that behaviour.
I report every single AFKer and they don’t care, they only action reports from people being toxic in chat.
A lot of just dum fucks who think they’re entitled to play only if they like the team they get.
the usual justification is “why should I play a game that were gonna loose anyway, I don’t wanna waste my time” completely forgetting that they’re wasting the time of 9 other people who just want to play.
On a related note when I logged in and saw the 5 messages telling me that my reports have yielded consequences really did make me smile.
Sure they barely get punished, but every now and then I notice that people in my block list loose titles, Avatars and suddenly stop playing ranked.
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There are 2 answers, either salty people or the game disconnecting them mid match for no reason, i had the second one happen to me a lot… and it makes me so mad when it happens
It happens in lower level lobbies and new player lobbies the most.
Many of the players are new and don’t care about winning nor losing yet so if mum comes yelling at them there is no real punishment for afk for 1 game.
As you get better at the game and have more games under your belt it will match you with better players who care a bit more about the game and you will have less and less afk players.
Something like one in 10 games.
If you go to ranked same issue at lower ranks but not as bad as casuals. Once you get plats and diamonds it’s much more rare but still happens.
Console players crash a lot
I never understand why people do that. Yeah they sometimes crash (mostly console players) but most of the times they go AFK because they don’t give a fuck. I have never done that once. If i don’t know whether I have enough time for the next match or not, I simply don’t queue because I don’t want to risk to leave my team alone. It’s such a selfish thing to do. I also hate people that just rage quit after the first point for nothing. I mean, why?? The match just started?! Just don’t be a dick and respect your team. On the other side I also hate playing against a team with a bot. It just feels like an unworthy win. So going afk is neither good for your team nor good for the enemy team.
It’s a toxicity thing
If a match looks like a loss then they just rage quit
Because the only people left playing live in the land where they can only connect via vpn to mobile device and have like 7kbps of data. So even if they do play they cant aim for shit and are a waste of space to the game but as its the only player base left hirez has to tolerate their shot tier effort at non existance in a match
i’m not sure if this is a bug or intentional but if you’re in a game and you stand still for like over 60 seconds you will get a black screen at the end of the game and you’re just stuck and have to restart your game. idk if this is intentional or not but i like it because it makes AFKers to be like ehhh i don’t feel like booting the game up again and they go play something else
dude i only got two games in on the pts because the queue time and one of the games my saati left like why are you gonna wait so long in queue just to play a character you don’t like and then leave
Preach brother preach!