Just some more of my 2 cents...
By all of the replies I am so glad that you others are as troubled by this as me.
Rant on! :(
I do like the idea of there being some way to get them out of the BG, they should not get the same honor as we do.
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but sometimes I have to AFK for a couple, it's annoying as hell to come back to a deserter tag but if it happens to me why doesn't it happen to the guy sitting in the corner of the cave the whole match.
I agree 100%. Bio break, kids, wife, door bell, things do happen. However, this afk looser leecher is gettibg the smae pay for 0 work...hitting a key is all that is keeping him from getting kicked, even though you were busting your tail to help the team win...
Because he hits his mouse, or any key within the set time limit, which I believe is either 2 or 3 minutes. I have read of people attaching a rubber band to thier mouse, and making a sail, or having a oscilating fan blow on thier mouse to keep it moving. Or taping a spokes to thier hamster wheel and letting him run and "flick" the mouse. There are programs that hit random buttons. But the result is the same, theese loosers are not playing, not helping in any way, but they do walk out with the same honor as you.
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A full time healer is, from a pvp killer perspective, no different than an "AFB"
It might seem that way, but you move around. Wether yuo are a druid supporting, or a Priest healing, or whatever you are... yuo are helping some. You res at different grave yards. You might root/snare/moonfire, but you are all over the map. I play a priest, so often I dont do any damage. But I am there in the middle of it, and if I am within range I get points too for the kill.
The "AFK/AKB" guys never move, or dont much at all. They never res either as they never die... Its so obvious what they are doing.
Sometimes they (the AFK guys) stand at the entry point where we all "appear" or spawn when the match starts and never move... I think theese guys are using a program, as it re-Q's them, and they can do this for hours (while they at work, school, sleep, whatever.)
Then there seems to be the "AKB -at keyboard botting-" guys. Theese re-Q on thier own, however walk a pace or two away from our spawn point and jump, or take one step forward and one stepback... or they have a hot button made, so they walk to the cave entrance and mount, unmount, over and over, or something similiar, but they never do anything else.... Just watch next time your in, you' ll see em.
I do like the power of the people, or a vote process. I dont really like the idea of a all the porwer for one raid boss, as he could abuse it. A raid is poeople from one server, but in BGs this could be disatrous.
I like better the idea of Blizz making better controls than the current "if you move or push a key within X time, then you must be sitting there..." They should Protect us, the participants, against the leeches. This should be Blizz's stance from the begining IMHO.
Like baelnic said, its not going to change. Blizz would have to tighten up on its "measures" to keep it from happening. I doubt they care enough to try and find and implement a new system that is fair.
They will let it ride and hope we are all so absorbed by the BC, new eye candy and getting lvl 61 that we forget or no longer notice as much...
The way I see it as an analogy:
I just hate the idea of the whole team working hard at the Super Bowl, and 1 or 2 players drinking gatorade and ******** cheerleaders on the ten yard line... This player did not help, he even laughed cause we were doing all the work, and everyone sees it....
But they "were on the field and wearing the jersy" so get the same Super bowl ring as me? Hate to be crude, but WTF? The coach or owner would never let this happen as it hurts his rep and the franchise if they loose.... if we loose, Blizz (in this analogy the owner/coach)does not care either way... it does not affect them.
I hate that I get this wroked up over this, and trust me, its not driving me to drink or to suicideal thoughts.... but if I spend 5 hours of my time working my fingers into spasms trying to get better gear, and get the same honor as the AFK/KB guys... something is wrong, and Blizz does not seem worried by it at all...
Rant off :)