What can be done about ranked match throwing?

Since the beginning of this ranked season has started almost every single match at any time of day there always seems to be one child on the team that will throw a fit nd go afk about 1 minute into the match regardless of weather you're even winning or not. This has occured in nearly 100 % of matches so far - how is this fair to people who have to spend every match 4 vs 5 and can anything be done about this? Perhaps a new report option that will be looked at more then others for those who spend entire days doing nothing but throwing matches in ranked such as this?

The thing is with the 10 placement matches.Placement matches take place in normal ranked games.Where players who has to play 10 placement games is put into a normal ranked game.Cause that some players got carried who do not deserve to platinum rank or gold.Those players right now and even before got full of them self their ego is big.Right now it will take time until the whole ordeal filters out and they knock them self down few divisions.And we can start having normal games with gold - plat rating.

Nothing at all :)

This is not a simple issue. There's many factors in it. Those who give up ar e doing that because they think the downsides of doing so outweigh the benefits.

We need measures to counter that. For example:

• Offenders are not being reported as much as they should because there's this myth floating around that reports do nothing.
  • When a player who is reported is checked by the GMs and it is demonstrated their behavior deserves punishment, send a message to the players wo reported, and give them a little reward, like some PvP reward potions. Players will know they reports work.
• Offenders lose nothing for staying AFK at the base.
  • Change the AFK detection so it doesn't just count movement and skill use, but to detect being in combat and actively participating in the fight as much as possible.
  • Improve AI until it is at least better than having 1 less player, when someone goes AFK, they get kicked and will get not pips at the end, and the AI takes over their character. They'd be able to rejoin the fight and take over the character again, but they will get less rewards based on how much of the match they missed.
  • Improve personal participation and rewards so there's "MVP" awards at the end of a match, so it's still possible to earn more that 1 pip for a top score even if the rest of your team isn't that good.
    • Show all the stats for all players in a table so players can see what each other did more clearly.
    • Also allow players to vote after matches for whoever they thought was the best player in the match between both teams with a new series of buttons in the score panel, next to each of the names.
      • Players would get +10% PVP rank and +1 pip for every 3 votes received. And +2 pips if all 10 players voted them for a total of +5.
      • To make sure players vote instead ignoring the after-match vote, give +10% rank when they vote, and +1 pip and for every 3-5 times voted.
      • Players would only be able to vote for themselves if they are considered MVP by the system, or if someone else voted for them first.

getting downright rediculous, 50 % of unranked matches now have even become the same thing

The reason people are so toxic and salty is that they're trapped in a losing game where, a lot of times, the uphill battle doesn't justify the ends. In real life, you can always walk away from a team you don't want to deal with, but here, you're trapped until the end watching your own team trickle into a meat grinder at mid.

Anet should seriously consider adding a /ff option. If people can get out faster from a match that's obviously skewed, then we wouldn't see so many afk's just sitting in base waiting for the match to end. Of course, the option should only be available, say, after 5 mins. have elapsed or if the score ratio is something like 3:1. The vote should pass if majority agrees in 3-2 or better.

We just need an automated reporting system... If a player gets 10-15 reports in a day, the system should automatically ban them from ranked play until the next daily reset.

@PuppyMonkeyBabyJosephSayer.3601 said:Since the beginning of this ranked season has started almost every single match at any time of day there always seems to be one child on the team that will throw a fit nd go afk about 1 minute into the match regardless of weather you're even winning or not. This has occured in nearly 100 % of matches so far - how is this fair to people who have to spend every match 4 vs 5 and can anything be done about this? Perhaps a new report option that will be looked at more then others for those who spend entire days doing nothing but throwing matches in ranked such as this?

Just do what I do when I see players go afk on my team. Go right upto them in spawn at their afk spot. /sleep , then turn on youtube or Netflix on the 2nd monitor and wait for the match to end.

Other then that, there is nothing else you can do, but raise your own blood sugar on a non competitive game. Better to just laugh at the clown fiesta and pay it no mind as you farm your pips. Then to take it serious at all and pop a blood vessel in your head.

@sephiroth.4217 said:We just need an automated reporting system... If a player gets 10-15 reports in a day, the system should automatically ban them from ranked play until the next daily reset.

Then how would you separate actual repeat offenders from innocent players that were reported by someone out of spite/salt/losing/anger? The report option also doesn't limit a person from reporting repeatedly either. A lot of people report their teammates just for losing too, so if you play enough and lose enough, eventually you'll accumulate enough false reports to trigger such automated screening methods.

@SaltyDogs.9073 said:

@sephiroth.4217 said:We just need an automated reporting system... If a player gets 10-15 reports in a day, the system should automatically ban them from ranked play until the next daily reset.

Maybe make it 5 reports in a single game then so it can't be abused. A separate in match reporting tool.

If you want to play pvp for fun and to enjoy it sadly unranked is where the fun is. Ranked is a toxic mess right now that will never seem to be fixed by anet. they just seem to cater to the toxic area of gw2. During the season all the trash players aka pve reward hunters, afks, match manipulators, toxic players and just as bad of pugs in ranked as unranked. Even in plat t2 mindless pugs run around somehow.

So why not just let ranked die like it should have mid season 5. If you want fun pvp with not as much trash then go to unranked like me. i'll play ranked now n then but its not healthy playing with mind numbing trash pugs in ranked, you think bad thoughts. In unranked you know what your getting yourself into and expect to have to carry some peeps. In "ranked" you expect smart people... lol

@Sismis.5390 said:The thing is with the 10 placement matches.Placement matches take place in normal ranked games.Where players who has to play 10 placement games is put into a normal ranked game.Cause that some players got carried who do not deserve to platinum rank or gold.Those players right now and even before got full of them self their ego is big.Right now it will take time until the whole ordeal filters out and they knock them self down few divisions.And we can start having normal games with gold - plat rating.

How about kids who were plat (+1600) end of last season and got blowed on placement matches and started at +1100 this season?

Or players who hasnt played for 3 seasons, coming back to game and start from +1500? Placement matches are just a joke. Thankfully you can climb out from 1100 rating to 1700.

Guys again the best way to deal with afkers, ragers, and match throwers is like this.......https://imgur.com/lLQEWhoOther then that yall are just wasting yalls time.

There's also the " easy meta " problem. Many people seem to only be able to play with middle point and are willing to give up after 2-3 deaths on it, and cannot do or elaborate any different tactic. Worse, they're even going to flame you if you try to say " let's play sides " , " stop going mid " , ..

I actually have no problem with people giving up at 400-100 after trying at least, but several players are giving up on a 100-150 pts difference without even trying and that's surely annoying