AFK Players

Is it me or has the number of afk players in a match gone up. For the past few days half my matches I start with one or two players going afk for the entire match. Or if it's not me it's the opposing team that has one or two players going afk on them. They always get reported but losing ranked matches simply because two people entered the match and decided to ghost is starting to get frustrating. The problem seems to have gotten so bad that people from opposing teams are starting to warn each other that they recognize one of the players on that team as someone who goes afk.

Is there anything that can be done about this? Is anyone else experiencing the problems as frequently seeing it?

I just started season spvp yesterday lol. 2 outta 5 matches had afk and as you say people already know them by the names. Meaning its going on for a while and report system doesn't work as per usual.

I've had multiple groups where teammates would have been as beneficial afking as actually playing. Worst season evah.

Win trade wars season 10. When duo came around the world of non stop "afk" and random "disconnects" began. Who can join a fellow mama's basement troll and wintrade tossing matches together to the top!. We will see.

P.S plus you have the pve reward hunter afks around.

haven't had that much time to climb ladder this season so far but I'm at about 1600 rn and so far I haven't seen a lot of afkers. that only tends to happen to me or enemy team when the match is like 250-0 and people just give up. I even started in low silver because of bad placements but ... yea I haven't really seen any afkers. I'm on EU btw

You cannot avoid that when you play with randoms.Play with teams. Oh wait you cant you ranked with teams.Tough luck I guess.

Are you on NA? I haven't played this season yet, but afk players never were that frequent. Sure there was a rager from time to time, but i'd estimate the phenomenon up to 5% of the games maybe.

this season has had more "rage" quiters and troll afk at base then the last 2 season i played.

noting new compared to before i guess but this crap gets old.

@MyPuppy.8970 said:Are you on NA? I haven't played this season yet, but afk players never were that frequent. Sure there was a rager from time to time, but i'd estimate the phenomenon up to 5% of the games maybe.

I'm in NA. AFKers seem to be more frequent this season than last season. This isn't even rager. This is start of the match they are just gone kinda thing.

Just had a match where someone didn't want to play because we had 2 core mesmers so they just said "why bother" at the start of the match, moved every 10 seconds to avoid auto kick and screwed everyone over from second 0

@"Zietlogik.6208" said:Just had a match where someone didn't want to play because we had 2 core mesmers so they just said "why bother" at the start of the match, moved every 10 seconds to avoid auto kick and screwed everyone over from second 0

I assume he know how trash core mesmer .... :D

@"Zietlogik.6208" said:Just had a match where someone didn't want to play because we had 2 core mesmers so they just said "why bother" at the start of the match, moved every 10 seconds to avoid auto kick and screwed everyone over from second 0

The sad thing is that they could just leave the match, but nope.

I have played about 250 games this season and I think I don't think I have had any legit AFK players on either team. There have been a few probable disconnects. AFK players on my team don't really bother me. The way I see it, if I have a hard game and lose my elo tanks and I end up against weaker players I can beat easier in future matches.

I recently start to play in NA instead of EU for like 2 weeks .

in EU : happened very unlikely ... maybe once per season.in NA : in two weeks happened already 5 times.

So far , for my experience , it's server dependant it feels like.