A humble suggestion about afkers and abandoned matches.
TL;DR - If a player joins a new match AFK (read: zero input), a goal is scored and their teammate leaves before that player has provided any input that player, not the one who left, should receive the abandon penalty.
It's not uncommon to join a new match with one or more teammates completely AFK through the whole first kickoff. Yet if I leave the match I'm the one who gets hit with the penalty. This doesn't seem fair and it seems improvable. I know there's a timeout but sometimes people come back from being AFK after a goal has already been scored and honestly as the player who showed up on time it's irritating to have to play through that.
More explicit example:
- Player A joins team Blue.
- Player B joins team Blue.
- Match begins.
- Player A provides input after kickoff.
- Orange team scores.
- Player A leaves the match.
- Penalty should go to Player B.
I'm open to hearing the downsides or ways this could be exploited but I can't think of any legitimate excuse Player B could have for not providing any input between the match starting and a goal being scored by the other team.
Posted Sep 14, 2025, 12:31 AM UTC