The matchmaking penalty needs to come back | Forums

[Darkmight_cz]

Do people forget about the grace period? So, if you join an ongoing Match and you are 500 Points down, you can leave it in the first 30 secs and get no penalty. That's how it was done when Leaver-Penalty was active.

If you have to leave due to special circumstances at YOUR home then it is YOUR problem, not mine. I don't want to sound rude, but I simply don't like to play with 1-2 Bots against people in my skill bracket. Even Level 3 Bots are food there...

Exactly this 😉

[DoctorMcBatman]

Do people forget about the grace period? So, if you join an ongoing Match and you are 500 Points down, you can leave it in the first 30 secs and get no penalty. That's how it was done when Leaver-Penalty was active.

If you have to leave due to special circumstances at YOUR home then it is YOUR problem, not mine. I don't want to sound rude, but I simply don't like to play with 1-2 Bots against people in my skill bracket. Even Level 3 Bots are food there...

This is true and a nice feature. But it doesn't get around the fact you just waited for an entire match to load only to leave right away, and now you have to get back in the queue and wait for another match to load that hopefully is either a new game or not a miserable in-progress one.

[XJadeDragoonX]

You could avoid the penalty by just closing the app instead of quitting the game anyway

[Vakris_One]

You could avoid the penalty by just closing the app instead of quitting the game anyway

Yes but you would have to waste around 5 minutes of loading the game up again and going through all the intro screens. That's at least some form of penalty that you cannot escape from even with app closing. Still better than how it is now which is a free pass to screw the experience for others by leaving matches to cue up again within seconds.

[HazelrahFirefly]

I love the bias.

"Me and my type of players are the important ones, not your type of players."

You want people to be punished for quitting, something everyone has to do at times, and we don't. Which seems amicable? But no, it's all about that W, not the people playing the game.

Oh, and the penalty being in place or not never changed people quitting out. It was the same before as it is now, and will be the same when the penalty returns. It's a placebo affect if you think more people are quitting now compared to before.

[Devils-_-legacy]

I don't see the point of enforcing the penalty in causal play modes it makes sense for the ranked modes as that's the serious side

[Vakris_One]

I love the bias.

"Me and my type of players are the important ones, not your type of players."

You want people to be punished for quitting, something everyone has to do at times, and we don't. Which seems amicable? But no, it's all about that W, not the people playing the game.

Oh, and the penalty being in place or not never changed people quitting out. It was the same before as it is now, and will be the same when the penalty returns. It's a placebo affect if you think more people are quitting now compared to before.

More people are quitting now than before. At least from my experiences. I have at least 1 quitter every second match I do. It's become as common now as when we had P2P disconnecting people, except that people now are legit straight up quitting matches in progress. And I do sympathise with people who have genuine reasons for having to leave a game - I mean it's a video game after all. It isn't and should not be the most important thing in life.

That being said I am pretty confident in guesstimating that 90% of leavers are a rage quit. Something has to be done to disencentivise rage quitters from ruining other people's experience because letting it run rampant is damaging to the game's experience - it is a game that puts a lot of focus on team based gameplay after all and it becomes beyond a joke if you can barely get a full team of players for longer than a minute. However this has to be done in a way that isn't so draconian that it unfairly punishes the minority 10% who legitimately have to drop out of a game for a minute or two.

Now what the game cannot and should not be seeking to accomodate is a person's lack of proper time management or a situation whereby a less team focused PvP/Co-op game would be the more appropriate choice for them to play. We are all subject to constraints on our free time, some more than others of course, but we all have the responsibility to manage what little free time we get accordingly - excluding emergencies of course.

[Darkmight_cz]

I don't see the point of enforcing the penalty in causal play modes it makes sense for the ranked modes as that's the serious side

The point is that you don't screw experience from playing to others who are trying hard to improve their skills and win 😉 if you want to leave as you want play PvUi not PvP

[MumfordDaHound]

It is pretty bad. So many games end with 1-2 bots on the losing side. Ppl are such babies they can't face the loss. The other thing I guess ppl are doing it for is cause of their KD? What a joke, KD is so messed up and has so many variables its not even worth having for the most part. So if they leave the game I guess so it doesn't affect their KD. Also, a big part of the problem is randoms having to face premade grps. The premades just roll and the person gets sick of it and leaves. Problem is they mostly leave cause they are doing poorly, but the team is still competitive even vs the premade at the time. Even if you lose to a premade if you can make it competitive then its at least fun to play. The coordinated timing of ganks and calling in for help is what is rough when the randoms have no way to communicate like a premade does.

[Devils-_-legacy]

The point is that you don't screw experience from playing to others who are trying hard to improve their skills and win 😉 if you want to leave as you want play PvUi not PvP

Just want to say I only leave if my oppents ping rate is terrible other then this week ware I've had to bare it but it doesn't change your experience as it's normally the team member that's getting stomped the most leaves your still getting stomped you just have a bot that eother plays like crap or god. a better fix would be fix matchmaking(like lessening the chances of pressure made vs randoms) so it more fair of a game then people wouldn't leave as much thats my opinon from my experience in this game