What is SE going to do about people that AFK in Frontline?

[Themarvin]

Can SE please get into this for good?

Maybe even give suspensions or 10 day XP penalties or something?

[Raven2014]

Frontline boot you out after 2min of AFKing. So they CAN'T be AFKing.

[Deveryn]

One or two people AFKing is not the problem. It's a collective (lack of) effort that decides wins and losses.

[Sove92]

Maybe even give suspensions

That's exactly what they do when confirmed after a report. That is, if the 2min AFK timer is being circumvented.

[Thurmnmurmn]

Like everyone else said, there's already a 2 min afk timer.if you see people bi-passing it, just report them.
Your idea of penalizing more is dumb since it would affect people who legit have to afk due to real life on occasion.

[Zebraoracle]

Frontline boot you out after 2min of AFKing. So they CAN'T be AFKing.

Okay, stop being pedantic. They might not be afking in the literal sense, but sitting at spawn and moving a bit to keep themselves from being kicked amounts to the same thing.

Thankfully, afaik, Square is pretty decent about punishing these people when actually reported.

[PirateRyanG]

Okay, stop being pedantic. They might not be afking in the literal sense, but sitting at spawn and moving a bit to keep themselves from being kicked amounts to the same thing.

Then report them and they get banned.

[Zebraoracle]

Then report them and they get banned.

Yup, edited my post as you responded as I agree with that sentiment. Not sure if they get outright banned (unless they already have three strikes on their account anyways), but punishment yes.

[Kewitt]

Vote kick afk if they are in your party or don't care it's a game then blist them and you should see them again. Or better yet hope they are on the other team.

[Genz]

Stop talking blindly about the 2-mins auto-kick, vote kick or report.
The 2-min auto-kick is utterly useless.
Vote kick can only be done after 5 mins, and generally fail.
The GM don't care about reports for afk in frontline, and we can't blame them : both the players and GM have better shit to do than reporting and investigating leeches. The only true solution is better design.

Frontline needs some small performance requirement to earn the reward, to discourage both leeches and griefers. The designers know the skills, they know how frontlines play out, and they probably have some statistics about how players do, so they can do their designer job and have an opinion about an acceptable minimum performance.