Leave Penalty A Poor Excuse To Fix A Problem

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@EA_Blueberry wrote:

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@sireladio wrote:

Expect the player base to drop again once it comes into affext

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Maybe the ones that leave games prematurely, never pick up your banners, or solo drop somewhere else on the map away from your squad? We hope once this goes into effect it's not going to deter anyone from playing more nor do we want players to feel like they're being "punished."

There's a lot of forum posts though from others that feel too many players are solo jumping elsewhere or just not being patient enough to wait for teammates to grab their banner. Ranked is competitive and this feature in sense should help encourage others to reach a common goal of moving up the ladder.

It might seem like a long time spectating your teammate and hopefully they give you some signal they'll go for your banner, but there times when going for the banner is simply just too risky. If you timed out and want to earn more RP, put faith in your teammate and continue to spectate. Toss out some calls for them that might make the difference between 5th place and 3rd. Can't tell you how many times some teammates quit early and still finished top 3 by myself.

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The idea you think its not going to deter people playing is funny when you putting in a system that punishes you for wanting to play your own way.
Your comment is a direct contradiction in itself and fails to address the issue of if Solo and Duo modes where core features this would not be happening most games any way.

Next you want to bring up solo jumping. If these people are so worried about playing as a team why dont they follow the solo jumper? To blame the solo jumper and ignore the others who are more than capable of following him is a cop out. Also you keep talking about just ranked? We will get to this point in a second so hold tight.

Now to your final point,
You continually keep bringing up ranked only. Stop ignoring that this will be also active in normal also.
If this was a ranked only punishment I could understand however thats just not true. It is going into affect across the board. So continually trying to use ranked as your example  is a clear attempt to mislead the conversation.

This whole issue stems from the lack of sight by respawn to understand the most played modes in all BR is Duo and Solo. Respawn failed to add this into there game and due to this it has caused people just to leave who didnt want to be stuck in a team any way. Respawn are fixing a result of the issue not the issue itself.

You honestly keep side stepping the core issue and blaming the players not the developers for a clear oversight.
Respawn - "Ok Players, We are not giving you solo or duo and are going to force you into 3 man squads. However we are going to punish you for wanting to play and not watch random people run around for 10 minutes."