The AFK timer kicks players that are spectating matches in HS

Yes, some players told me about this BUG, although I didn't experience it yet. But yeah, it makes no sense to be kicked for being afk while you can only expectate

I was waiting in GA for a hero to become available for play and got booted for inactivity.  Is that a bug?  It made sense at the time but i was bumbed out cause i saved all my battle points to play as a hero for once only to get kicked.

I don't think that is a bug, @Centennialpigon! When you wait in the spawn screen, the game doesn't know why you are waiting and thus kicks you from the match. When you are waiting for a hero slot to open up, you are voluntarily waiting in the spawn menu. So when the message of "inactivity detected, kicks in ..." shows up, you can still spawn and go on in the match.

In Hero showdown, however, players are not voluntarily waiting. They cannot spawn because they are waiting for the match to end by spectating the teammate.

Ok. Thanks for the clarification.  So, what happened to me is normal, and not what you are posting about?

It kicks when you're waiting in lobbies for more players to show.  Had this happen so much that now I feel the need to constantly be fiddling with something, just to show I'm still active.  Annoying when you've been waiting, finally get enough people, then one gets kicked.  Then you have to wait for someone else to pop in.  Then it's all good, match is going to start...and another player gets kicked.  Rinse/repeat.  Ugh.

I was kicked for standing still because we were doing 1v1s in HS, and I was just watching. Note, I wasn't standing completely. I was still moving my camera around so I could see the fight. I wish that instead of immediately kicking the player, it asked for some kind of input.

@Typhonidite 

They drastically reduced the idle time in the last patch (or maybe the one before), and by your input it seems moving the camera isn't enough to make a character not be considered idle

What's funny with all this is that only in the first 6 months of this game that AFK Farmers were a serious issue, and back then they either ignored the issue, tried methods to fix it but failed miserably, or just told us things about fixing the issue to make us complain less but that weren't true at all.

But now that AFK Farmers are a thing of the past, and those that still do it are very rare, they decide it's time to get more strict with idle players being kicked due to 'inactivity'.

The same they've been doing with patching holes in walls, after they finally rendered this exploit useless in HvV, which was a major exploit and the most important reason for many players to ask that HvV stopped having the Target System (as asking for fixes usually resulted in devs ignoring them or taking months or more then a year to address, so players decided it was better to ask for a change in ruleset to remove the issue from causing harm to the mode).