I want to talk about leaving and when people would consider it to be acceptable or not.Basically, if I have a massive disadvantage, I will leave most of the time. There have been too many sessions where my entire team and me couldn’t get a kill 7+ games in a row. Because of these experiences, I refuse to take part in something that’s going to completely waste my time. I might/will leave when:- Not having enough teammates- Having less skilled teammates and a very skilled champion squad- Seeing a full premade triple predator/master squad when my teammates aren’t even close to that skill level- Teammates choosing different locations on the map from the start (= basically the same as not having enough teammates)- Teammates dying instantly after dropping and me not having a gun or bullets- Toxic teammatesWhat do you think? Am I unreasonable or are you someone who leaves as well? From my POV, life’s too short to get constantly lasered by top 1% gamers.

@AreYouShivering You can leave whenever you want. Period.

@Jekth_Avid one of my friends posted this in his discord the other day, it's fitting here.

@Solim66 I actually encourage players to quit for those reasons and especially when the premade organized squad have all the top badges and are just in pubs to boost their crippled self-image because their parents didnt follow up on them. Thats actually true. Dont feed them cheap points and just leave their cringe infested server.

You can leave when your banner goes grey or teammates are afk. Since adding reporting for abandoning the game I report everyone (even in casual). I barely had any complete team with those weekend warriors that storm game today.It's a TEAM game, you can't do whatever YOU like, because there are 2 other HUMAN BEINGS in trios and your actions reflect on them. You want to quit whenever you want? Turn off "fill squad" option and play alone. You want to have team? Then understand consequences of playing in team.

It is okay to leave Toxicity.It is okay to leave where your teammate creates a 2v3 and 1v3 situation if the 3rd teammate leaves. If the 3rd stays you should probably play it out for him, it is not ideal, but you still have one teammate.If your 2 teammates put so much distance between you and them because they need to "loot mule",it is also ok to leave, but more fun to watch them die and then not rez them, maybe even get their banners first depending on your skill level. It is definitely ok to not follow them and do your own thing. If they cared about team they would not put that much distance between you..It is okay to leave when your banner has timed out, but in ranked you are better off just tabbing out and watching youtube.Teammates disconnecting or being AFK is not a good reason to leave as the game is buggy and disconnects people and sometimes they reconnect.

Leaving early or mid-game: when is it acceptable?

13 Replies

CCbathwater
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Not at all, I leave in many of those instances too. Most of my leaves boil down to everybody thinking they are Shiv, i.e. land somewhere they don't have the skills for and die. That's just an insta leave for me when teammates are crawling around because they decided to land on a small contested building.
Ingeniekey
5 years ago
@Solim66 I actually encourage players to quit for those reasons and especially when the premade organized squad have all the top badges and are just in pubs to boost their crippled self-image because their parents didnt follow up on them. Thats actually true. Dont feed them cheap points and just leave their cringe infested server.
AreYouShivering
New Ace
5 years ago
You can leave when your banner goes grey or teammates are afk. Since adding reporting for abandoning the game I report everyone (even in casual). I barely had any complete team with those weekend warriors that storm game today.
It's a TEAM game, you can't do whatever YOU like, because there are 2 other HUMAN BEINGS in trios and your actions reflect on them. You want to quit whenever you want? Turn off "fill squad" option and play alone. You want to have team? Then understand consequences of playing in team.
Irres169
5 years ago
It is okay to leave Toxicity.
It is okay to leave where your teammate creates a 2v3 and 1v3 situation if the 3rd teammate leaves. If the 3rd stays you should probably play it out for him, it is not ideal, but you still have one teammate.
If your 2 teammates put so much distance between you and them because they need to "loot mule",it is also ok to leave, but more fun to watch them die and then not rez them, maybe even get their banners first depending on your skill level. It is definitely ok to not follow them and do your own thing. If they cared about team they would not put that much distance between you.
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It is okay to leave when your banner has timed out, but in ranked you are better off just tabbing out and watching youtube.
Teammates disconnecting or being AFK is not a good reason to leave as the game is buggy and disconnects people and sometimes they reconnect.
Ingeniekey
5 years ago
@AreYouShivering You can leave whenever you want. Period.
AreYouShivering
New Ace
5 years ago
@Ingeniekey You can do whatever you like. And I will report you every time you dump your team !!oneone
Ingeniekey
5 years ago
@AreYouShivering I'll do whatever I like and you will be a good little mommy boy.
CCbathwater
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
If this is how we play now, reporting for every little thing, I guess I'll have to dust off the sabotage/inting reports every other game, when some idiot without a R2 button, drops with half the lobby and flies us off to certain death.
Jekth_Avid
5 years ago
Leave when your banner is gray. Obviously there are exceptions, but I can't tell you how many times a bald wraith decides to put us in a hot zone and my friend and I clutch the fight. We'll go back to rez or respawn but OH WAIT the wraith left because they think they're 7 thousand times better than us and since they died we clearly will too.
If you leave before the fight is over you're doing it wrong.
:l
Solim66
5 years ago
@Jekth_AvidI agree this can be annoying, but it highly depends on the situation. Have your teammates been helpful before? Do they communicate? If there wasn't any team spirit before and if they don't have the skills to take down the enemy team, I will probably leave. It's a judgment call, but I must admit I won't be right 100% of the time. That being said, if they show intention to grab my banner or they already grabbed it, I will definitely stay because they took the time and effort.