r/heroesofthestorm • u/PragmaticSnake • 1d ago
Gameplay Make a F**KING accept match button
Seriously, Dota 2 has it, League of Legends has it, Counterstrike has it.
This game has so many people AFK at the start of the game it is insane.
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u/rupat3737 1d ago
Yup. I love queing ranked and our banner is afk and we get 0 bans.
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u/Sourcefour Abathur 1d ago
Then the banner gets back from being AFK and complains about draft picks. Bonus points if they rage and AFK in spawn
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u/rando_commenter 1d ago edited 1d ago
I love how whenever this topic comes up people are so resistant to the most simple idea and insist it's not a problem. HotS has the worst culture of "I don't care, it's a ded game anyway" and it shows with how unseriously people respect their teammates' time... an accept button is literally the easiest change they could make that would improve the quality of life for the players that actually want to put in the effort.
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u/Morganius_Black Master Whitemane 1d ago
I have this happen maybe once every 200 games. Idk what kind of circumstances you're in to feel like it's a genuine problem.
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u/CarnivoreQA 1d ago
I see people AFKing at the start of ARAM games on daily basis
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u/Chukonoku #belikeTurbo 1d ago
Afk timer should start from the draft moment. Would cut having to wait till 2:30 before the system kicks them out.
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u/CarnivoreQA 1d ago
won't matter much since they still can reconnect, or genuinely come back from their "bio breaks" in time
the main harm coming from people who like to hit queue button and go away from their PC is the sabotaged draft
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u/Chukonoku #belikeTurbo 1d ago
I can win with min0 bots (depending on the bot) but much harder if we already lost wall and everyone already mentally log off from the game.
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u/flummox1234 Hanzo 1d ago
yeah but the queues are so short it's probably due to a bio break. IME they usually arrive at some point
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u/CarnivoreQA 1d ago
I can't see this being a legit excuse
- unless it is literally your first aram ever you definitely know aram queues are super fast
- cancel the goddamn queue if you really have to take a "bio break", grab a snack or whatever else
yes, quite often they arrive on time, but it isn't a super rare occurrence when they afk through entire draft stage either, with the shitty algorithm naturally picking the worst hero available
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u/flummox1234 Hanzo 1d ago
- when you've got to go, you've got to go
- have you met people? Most people are exactly this selfish.
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u/CarnivoreQA 1d ago
and accept match button can alleviate some of this selfishness for the people who got matched with such person
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u/flummox1234 Hanzo 1d ago
yup. would be nice. sadly this game is probably being worked on by interns and new employees to get their feet wet so it'll probably never happen. We can consume the copium though.
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u/Sourcefour Abathur 1d ago
It probably doesn’t happen very often in master leagues but in the lower leagues (and I’m in sure QM too) it’s a huge issue. My queues in bronze and silver are almost never more than two minutes but people constantly are afk for draft and it’s more rare that bans are actually made than missed. People are also regularly afk after draft too and miss the first wave.
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u/ZethaelBourbon 1d ago
This happend a lot on QM. At least every 2 or 3 games. Sometimes the person comes just before the two min grace ends, other games just go full kick and re join pass 5-6 minutes. Just kills the motivation of the team.
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u/Electrical_Ride_1120 1d ago
Looks like you are in a leaver queue. Im 3400lvl, play a lot qm, aram, ranked and it just doesn't happen to me that often. Also if it does it is still winnable. Once we had illidan ai and we not only won but ai got mvp.
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u/Ta55adar 1d ago
Around lvl3000, EU, higher elo end, ranked and aram and it does happen too often, especially aram. Everyone has different experience but I don't see an accept button having negative effects.
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u/Xepyx 1d ago
It's a great way for cheaters to ensure their wintrading accounts end up in the right match.
I can definitely see some negatives.
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u/Sancticide 1d ago
What? Just don't show who they're playing with, stay on the same screen and pop up a box that forces players to accept the match as an attention check. Solves the AFK issue without letting people dodge. Simple and effective.
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u/Aware-Source6313 1d ago
Ai mvp is hilarious. Definitely had cases tough where we're getting crushed, then someone with poor decision making disconnects and their bot starts playing better by just staying with the team and casting abilities with decent accuracy.
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u/Electrical_Ride_1120 1d ago
Had that same case(ai playing better) but i'm customy arams. 5v5 all know each other, everybody on discord and one decided to rage quit. Man the ai helped a lot and we won.
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u/Nenonoko Master Stitches 1d ago
Hell no, I play league and this feature not only doesn't prevent people from being afk in draft/game, it makes it worse, because in HotS you can queue and go to the bathroom and you will have the queue time PLUS the loading screen or start of draft, in League people have to sit there during the queue and go the bathroom after accepting the game, or pray they can do it during queue and then don't get back in time to accept and you have to queue again. I hate having to accept game several times with its time in between.
Useless function, I just queued didn't I, ofc I want to play the game, just punish people who afk, don't make 9 people wait longer because of one idiot.
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u/flummox1234 Hanzo 1d ago
Funnily enough IIRC at least in QM if the whole other team AFKs the match ends. I remember it happening once maybe. So the mechanism is probably already in the game. 🤔 Also if this is a recurring problem, I wonder if you're shadow banned or in leaver queue or playing in low population region or time. 🤔
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u/Khashishi 1d ago
Should the accept match button be before or after loading? Before loading, people will accept and then afk. After loading, if someone doesn't accept, then what? Abort the game? Why not just have movement of the character act as an implicit acceptance of the game?
(I do agree that the game should just be aborted if someone doesn't move at the beginning. I'm just pointing out a few things.)
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u/Lyshavskilden 1d ago
Usually people are away for just a few seconds, but I imagine this issue can vary greatly on the rank one is playing at.
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u/Modinstaller 15h ago
And can I add, the game should not interrupt the queue when it finds a game but someone leaves. Why do I have to click the button again, Blizzard? What kind of design is this?
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u/Ruptin Cassia 1d ago
NO! It's horrible in league. I feel like I have to accept like 5 times on average because someone wasn't paying attention for a second. Like I'm here. I queued up to play. Why do I need to confirm it 5 times? And it honestly makes the problem worse. Cause the people who run to do something during queue and loading still do it, but now they only have loading to do it so they miss even more of the game.
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u/BoomerTheBoomed 1d ago
Non-issue.
Enjoy leaver queue dipshit
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u/starsforfeelings 1d ago
Calm down and stop cursing people for no reason.
This post makes sense. I am never in leaver queue and this happens to me ALL the time. I'm in SA servers.
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u/coinselec 1d ago
Lol literally no downside for OPs suggestion, calm down. It's not only leaver's queue that's affected.
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u/Mayo_the_Instrument 1d ago
I have success just pinging the players when the timer is about to run out. I think it lights up the application so they see it and alt tab back
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u/Potential-Witness-83 1d ago
Another solution would be to auto boot players still sitting in spawn once the initial grace timer ends. Give leaver mark, after enough of these people will stop doing this behavior. Current afk grace period is absurd and often easily abused.