Interesting, how everyone, who comes with the "brilliant" idea of leaver penalty in casual, mentions the League of Legends, which is totally different game and doesn't mention For Honor, that also have a leavers penalty in regular matches and is also an action game, for a change... but - surprise! surprise! - have a lousy online. So maybe, just MAYBE the temporal ban as a leaver penalty in action game's casual is not such a great idea after all?
You are forced to put up with random people in this game as long as youre not playing with friends. No solo mode as of now. If they prematurely quit, they destroy their teammates fun as in - do you really stand a chance against 3 players (possibly friends even) with a equivalent skill to your own? (Not even talking about the ones way beyond your own capabilites). No, you most likely dont.
So what harm does it actually do to wait and see whats going to happen when you get downed? maybe your mates still get to pick you up somehow and you manage to pull off an amazing comeback?
Player leaves prematurely - potential fun destroyed for 2 other players - his mates. Its only fair to make the leaver at least have to wait a 5 minute timer until he can queue again, just like in LoL it would work just fine - stacking time-penalty upon leaving multiple times within a short timeframe of course.
Crashing and disconnection shouldnt be a problem here either, proper software can often tell whether it was a legit disconnection act via the menu, a real crash or disconnect due to timeout.
Also, yes, LoL is obviously a totally different game, BUT, it is also a TEAMgame and when people in your team leave before the game is over, youre at a disadvantage. That simple.
But you are not forced to play with randoms. That's the thing.
You're not? Maybe I am blind and can't seem to find the solo mode but when my friends are not online and I still want to play, I have to either not play at all or am forced to put up with randoms by design.
Yes, Apex Discord for example is a solution to this entire "putting up with randoms" thing, sort of, but when leaving that out of the equation, just from a game design perspective, it boggles my mind that people can prematurely leave just like that in a teamgame without any repercussions.
The quickest answer to your problem is make friends. We all know what we are getting ourselves into when we play this game. If you want to play as bad as you say, when your normal group of friend isn't on then you make new friends or don't play at all. It is no oneelse's fault that you choose not to make more friends.
When I'm tired of solo queuing ranked I just stop playing for a bit because pubs holds no incentive for me to play. It's either ranked or I don't play. And that is a decision that I myself have choosin.
I haven't found the right squad for diamond que so until then I'll just solo que and when I get bored/angry enough I'm out.
