Apex Legends finally adds a penalty for mid-game dropouts

Respawn Entertainment has just added another big change to Apex Legends when it brings back the penalty for players to abandon teammates in the middle of the game.

Players who decide to leave the game midway will receive a warning that future matchmaking will be delayed – a move welcomed by many members of the community. Because, no one wants to be paired with a teammate who is always ready to press quit as soon as he falls down.

For those who don’t know, if a player has been eliminated from the match, it cannot be revived, and the decision to leave the game is completely unharmed. Players who leave the game when there are not enough members are not affected by this punishment if they intend to leave the game.

This penalty is only for those who are still alive and have the potential to help their teammates in the match. Every player has also understood how this punishment system works. According to Smashmundo users, leaving three games in a row will result in a 5-minute ban on finding games in Apex Legends, and if this number increases to four, it will cause players to be banned for another 10 minutes.

Punishment for leaving is back! from apexlegends

Many Reddit users have responded extremely positively to the newly introduced penalty. This post garnered over 26,500 upvotes, but one person believes this penalty needs to go further for it to have any real impact.

“This punishment is extremely lenient and I want it to be more severe, because I believe it is not enough,” one person wrote.

Whether this deterrent will be successful enough to deter players from leaving the game early is still a mystery, but overall, the community believes this is a step in the right direction for Apex Legends.