I dunno, it's annoying when people leave, but to use group pressure as a means to prevent it seems a bit childish to me. Why not reward people that don't leave instead, or let people that leave games lose double LP or something?
Also, League remains a game in my opinion. "educate players that AFKing or leaving a game is not acceptable in League". Maybe going a bit overboard. Maybe.
Don't get me wrong though, I will still hate leavers for the rest of their lives, curse them and offer their souls to
Thresh but I'm just adding in a little moment of reflection here :)
Not that I'm someone that has to worry about the penalties or anything, I never leave games anyway. But if someone's bleeding to death I'll leave the damn game, even if it's "unacceptable in League".
Also, League remains a game in my opinion. "educate players that AFKing or leaving a game is not acceptable in League". Maybe going a bit overboard. Maybe.
Don't get me wrong though, I will still hate leavers for the rest of their lives, curse them and offer their souls to
Thresh but I'm just adding in a little moment of reflection here :)Not that I'm someone that has to worry about the penalties or anything, I never leave games anyway. But if someone's bleeding to death I'll leave the damn game, even if it's "unacceptable in League".
********'s a pretty good fertilizer
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TL;DR We're rolling out a new LeaverBuster system to help reduce the frequency of AFKS and leavers that is also significantly more severe in ranked games.
LeaverBuster is our system for detecting players who frequently leave games or AFK. In the past, we've generally erred on the side of caution, and for that reason, many of you have given us the feedback that LeaverBuster hasn't always seemed effective and some players seemed to just switch to a smurf to dodge the leaving penalties.
With this new update, we've implemented a significantly more strict design while providing a clear feedback loop. Our goals are to better educate players that AFKing or leaving a game is not acceptable in League, and punish leavers faster and more severely.
The first time a player leaves a game, they'll see a pop-up explaining that leaving is not okay and then have to manually agree to not leave future games. If they continue to ruin other players' experiences, they'll enter lower-priority matchmaking for a number of games. While in low priority queue, players will experience queue times that are 5, 10, even 20 minutes longer than a player who hasn't left games.
Players will know how many games they have in lower-priority, and if they join a premade group, that group will be notified they are playing with a chronic AFK/leaver and they'll face the same lower-priority time penalty while that player remains in their group.
While we hope it doesn't ever happen, but if a player fails to stop AFKing or leaving while in lower-priority matchmaking, continued offenses will result in permanent bans.
Source: http://eune.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/player-behavior/updates-leaverbuster