Riot, the penalty for AFK is not severe enough

Simply put, the penalty for leaving a game/going AFK, especially a ranked game, is not severe enough.

People play ranked games and rage quit, play knowingly with poor internet connections ("Im in a coffee shop, bad connection") , play when they might have to leave for some random reason ("I have to pick my friend up"), their mother makes them quit ("bedtime"), etc, etc.

So why do I think its not severe enough? Look at the punishment:

From http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Leaver_Buster > Punishment (normal match):

• > 1st offense - Player is unable to join the matchmaking queue for 6 minutes.
• > 2nd and following offenses - Player is unable to join the matchmaking queue for 15 minutes.
• > After 5 offenses or more - Player is unable to join the matchmaking queue for 20 minutes.
• > In addition to the above time penalties if the game was a ranked match, the player loses 3 League Points, for the first offense and 10LP for the second time before the timer reset.

People _still _ go AFK. Simply put, they dont care if there is a 6,15, or 20 minute queue. People complain about those queue times as it is, so what difference does a mandatory 6/15/20 minute delay do? They have no fear of the repercussions, since most of them deal with that queue anyway. And as long as the dont AFK to often, there really is no penalty for doing so.

Ive gotten into ranked games in the last few weeks and is it the most frustrating thing. Close to half my games have people not connecting, or going AFK during the game. _ ** HALF of the games!**_ My provisionals had 3 or 4 AFK players, my promotionals had AFKers. Game after game, AFK.

Yes, /remake has helped with DCed players at the beginning, but it does nothing to help the players after 3 minutes. We get a loss, lose LP and IP and become totally pissed, while the AFKer shrugs it off.

Riot, you have to make the penalty of leaving a game severe enough that people are **AFRAID ** to be penalized.