League of Legends players face new punishments for leaving matches and being AFK - Eurogamer.net

Riot Games has outlined changes it hopes will improve player behaviour when it comes to idling or leaving early in League of Legends.

"Up until now, we've penalized AFKing with queue delays," the blog explains.

"Queue delays are a speed bump on an offending player's way to their next few games: Upon clicking the play button, the queue blocks them behind a short timer.

"For most folks queue delays work well, but about 9 per cent of our players worldwide engage in consistent AFK behaviour and don't seem to be deterred by a few delays between their games.".

When a player experiences a queue lockout, "they will have a popup displayed explaining their punishment and will be unable to start games in MOBA queues".

Once a queue lockout does expire, it's followed by the maximum-level queue delay so we can still maintain the benefits of behaviour modification and players who take a break don't get to sit out their entire punishment.

Queue Lockouts apply to all MOBA queues.

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