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6 years ago

Prevent Mid-Game leaving, before season 2.

Hi Respawn and EA.

At the start of Season 1, Octane was released. What I saw when getting into a random pre-made squad was horrific.

For the first 2 days, people who didn't get to play Octane would immediately leave right in the middle of selecting their legend.
However, this wasn't so bad considering that not everyone who downloaded the game since release could afford to purchase him because they'd already spent all of their Legend Tokens on Caustic, and Mirage.

But what about season 2, and the release of the new legend?

Let me explain to everybody here exactly what I can predict will happen.
First, the season 2 battle pass will start, all this new and juicy content to try out.
But what do the people really want? The new legend. Everybody will want to try them out, but what's this?!?

It appears that almost 90% of the current player base has enough Legend Tokens to buy the new legend twice!

So what's the big deal?

I'll tell you the big deal, since so, many, people will get the new legend immediately, Everybody will want to play them. (I mean for the love of god, a teaser came out today, and if a legend can shoot lightning bolts out of their hands using gloves like that I don't know a single person who wouldn't wanna play'em)
If they don't get what they want, they'll just leave and brush it off as a minor issue to their teammates.
And that'll happen over, and over, and over again. Not even doubling the price of the legend will fix it, because everybody has so many Legend Tokens.

What to do?

I've heard you (respawn and ea) tried to make a punishment system for leaving teammates a while back and it failed.
This failure shouldn't stop you from preventing chaos in your game. I am going to say something a lot of people are going to disagree with, delay the release if you have to.

Punish those who are whiny about what legend they get to play, I'm thinking just 5 minutes of not being able to join a game after leaving is enough to smooth things down.

I appreciate all the hard work you Respawn and EA have put into this game. Please don't take this as negative feedback, I am just really tired of seeing these people leave games like it's not a big deal.

I also like the report a player who left the game feature. Didn't get to try it yet, but I'm sure I won't have to wait long. 😉

2 Replies

  • @Witherpizza 

    Good feedback there 🙂 

    We'll have to wait and see what happens with Season 2 and whether a penalty for leaving is implemented.

    'Quitters' can be a nuisance but I think that games are best when there isn't too much heavy policing going on. I guess a balance has to be struck between players having the freedom to leave and punishing 'quitters'.

    Adding some friends who will share new Legends is probably the best way to avoid clashes during selection. 🙂


  • @Witherpizza wrote:

    Hi Respawn and EA.

    At the start of Season 1, Octane was released. What I saw when getting into a random pre-made squad was horrific.

    For the first 2 days, people who didn't get to play Octane would immediately leave right in the middle of selecting their legend.
    However, this wasn't so bad considering that not everyone who downloaded the game since release could afford to purchase him because they'd already spent all of their Legend Tokens on Caustic, and Mirage.

    But what about season 2, and the release of the new legend?

    Let me explain to everybody here exactly what I can predict will happen.
    First, the season 2 battle pass will start, all this new and juicy content to try out.
    But what do the people really want? The new legend. Everybody will want to try them out, but what's this?!?

    It appears that almost 90% of the current player base has enough Legend Tokens to buy the new legend twice!

    So what's the big deal?

    I'll tell you the big deal, since so, many, people will get the new legend immediately, Everybody will want to play them. (I mean for the love of god, a teaser came out today, and if a legend can shoot lightning bolts out of their hands using gloves like that I don't know a single person who wouldn't wanna play'em)
    If they don't get what they want, they'll just leave and brush it off as a minor issue to their teammates.
    And that'll happen over, and over, and over again. Not even doubling the price of the legend will fix it, because everybody has so many Legend Tokens.

    What to do?

    I've heard you (respawn and ea) tried to make a punishment system for leaving teammates a while back and it failed.
    This failure shouldn't stop you from preventing chaos in your game. I am going to say something a lot of people are going to disagree with, delay the release if you have to.

    Punish those who are whiny about what legend they get to play, I'm thinking just 5 minutes of not being able to join a game after leaving is enough to smooth things down.

    I appreciate all the hard work you Respawn and EA have put into this game. Please don't take this as negative feedback, I am just really tired of seeing these people leave games like it's not a big deal.

    I also like the report a player who left the game feature. Didn't get to try it yet, but I'm sure I won't have to wait long. 😉


    so people insted of going to lobby just press alt+f4 and stop playing the game bcose they know that it will take them 5 mins to w8 

    first they need to make good reward for winning like apex pack or smth so people will play this game more serious 

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