Punish Rage Quitters and Encourage Waiting for Respawn

The quality of team play has always been bad, and it honestly hasn't ever been (at least for me) the people who leave early when they get downed. 

If you want to talk about bad team play, talk about how people take forever to loot and get killed while looting. Talk about people ignoring pings, people looting dead teammate's boxes despite being close to a respawn beacon, talk about people who have microphones and don't use them except to tell everyone else on the team how bad they are, talk about teammates who don't split off to find their own loot and think 3 people looting 1 building is a recipe for success, talk about people who pop shots off on enemies 700 meters away with R-99s, talk about people who don't understand effective ranges, talk about people who don't ping better loot for you, talk about people who wait for you to open supply caches then take everything inside, talk about people who hoard grenades and don't pick up actual supplies, talk about people who pick up sniper rifles but don't understand positioning or who have awful aim, talk about people with microphones with bad callouts, bad decision making, bad aim, bad judgement, talk about the actions that your teammates take that drag down the enjoyment of the game for people who actually want to play with people who are just as good, or better than they are. Which, hint hint, is why so many people wanted a permanent solo mode. 

Personally? All these posts that want people to be punished for leaving early are (in my mind) the people I get daily who can't get a kill to save their lives. All of them read the same to me, "I had someone who was gonna carry me to victory, but they left, and now I'm mad! They should be punished for not carrying me!" If I can't punish people for the things I've put in the previous paragraph, there's no real reason you should be able to punish me for leaving early, because I don't wanna waste my time watching brain-dead teammates flop around like fish outta water, missing every single shot with their current weapon. If your enjoyment of the game is ruined because someone left early, my enjoyment of the game is ruined because the people I play with haven't touched a mouse and keyboard in their entire lives. If it's infuriating to have someone leave as you grab your banner, it's DOUBLY infuriating to ALWAYS have teammates that are dead and NEED their banner picked up. 

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@Schwin941  schrieb:

Lately, the quality of team play has taken a nosedive. It feels like it corresponds with Armed and Dangerous (though it's probably knock-on effect from Solo Mode), where the matches got really fast. But it's hurting the quality of the game. Now, every third person or so rage quits instead of waiting for a revive. It really hurts the fun and destroys a major gameplay element. It's doubly infuriating when you've you gone out of your way to go and collect them, only for them to drop right as you've irrevocably committed to getting them. That's happened frequently enough.

Rage quitting needs to be punished. I can think of a few methods, any one or combination of which could be effective.

1. Force rage quitters to wait a certain period of time before assigning them to a new match.
2. Have a rage quit stat for people who quit before their timer expires.
3. Eliminate all positive stats from the player's profile if they quit before their timer expires.
4. Have positive revive stats for people who stay.
5. Have team player badges for people who stay.

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Why not also taking also all their legendary skins, since we already at the subject? 😇

But to be serious, there can be only be one solution to this, which is blocking time, like in CSGO.

1st quit - 15 minutes ban

2nd quit - 30 minutes ban

3rd quit - 2 hours ban

etc.

But: I do not think, they will implement it.

Why? Because people would stop playing, even if it was their fault and Respawns needs active players.

@JjumpingJjack 

Even 3 minutes would be a good start. And I'm totally onboard with taking their legendary skins. If they're not going to play in good faith, then they should play something else. The game has a formula and rage quitters are dicking over two other people by doing what they do.

I've been totally addicted to the game for weeks. Today, for the first time, I'm pretty much over it, largely due to the rage quitters. I keep wanting to pick it up, but I'm not having nearly as much fun. I doubt I'm the only one. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't sort of situation. If they don't rein in the rage quitting, then they'll lose players otherwise. 

I suppose the reasonable alternative might be to eliminate respawns entirely.

@pastaclown

There's a difference in someone being bad at a game and someone being bad at being a person. Inconveniencing 2 people because you can't be bothered to wait 2 minutes and play out the rest of your expiry is just a sign of a bad person - someone who is wholly self-centered.

Frankly, I play better solo because I maintain my own pace and don't have to chase clowns like you around who think they've looted an area by streaking through a single building. It makes more sense to actually loot properly than to just blast through, pick up two items, and have to cover a bunch of open ground to do it once again. It also makes more sense to move systematically and strategically across a map, rather than what guys like you do.

But, if I have teammates, then I expect that they should wait, just as I do. It's inconsiderate to drop early. It's rude. Once they're respawned, they're a liability. I have to re-equip them, which often means losing some of my gear. But in the last ring or two, having that extra bullet sponge is often a huge difference so, if you want to win rather than just play it out as far as you can and rack up kills, an intact team is your greatest strength.

You just sound like an inconsiderate, self-centered tool. It's a team-based game. If you don't want to play a team-based game, then play something with an FFA mode.

I’ve been having this a lot lately.. I fight my behind off to get to them and often win the fight but I haven’t noticed that they left half way through that fight, kinda feels like a kick in the nuts. Though I have also had a lot of encounters with being downed and my teammate gets my banner but proceeds to teabag at the red pawn station, stopping the respawn just before it finishes and repeats it over and over to finally not bother and get killed.

I have noticed this since ranked/solo was introduced. I always play in a duo and before ranked/solo I'd say we would find a leaver in about 1 in 6 matches. Now, it's about 1 in 2. I prefer ranked for this reason.

Well if I'm a bad person, then I guess everyone I play with must be good, including the people who leave early. Which happens pretty frequently to me too, but you don't see me making posts complaining about punishing these people. Why? Because they weren't that great to play with in the first place, and it's a blessing not having to carry dead weight with me.

Your first "point" is to insult me, which is a pretty telling sign that I was on the dot about you needing someone to carry you. Congrats! Your only reason for why you're in the right, and I'm just a silly clown, is the assumption that I'm just an idiot who doesn't know how to play the game. Which is also pretty telling of how poorly you think of your teammates in the first place, regardless of whether or not they leave early. High horse much? 

Next, your expectations of people have quite literally nothing to do with how people actually react to the situations at hand. You expect people to wait for you? That's great! You're only letting yourself down. If I ran around expecting people to be good at the game, only to see that they're not (which they really aren't.), should I get an option to punish them for that? Absolutely not, that's ridiculous. Just because you have expectations for people, doesn't mean you're entitled to people living up to them, which is really what this entire thread is about. Being entitled to someone's time because you think your enjoyment of the game is more important than theirs. It's pathetic.

I agree, a punishment needs to be added. And it's not even the "bad" players that everyone is talking about.

Example:  Last night our random 3rd teammate had about 4k kills with the character they were using, so obviously an experienced player. We pinged and dropped Runoff, but he decided to split off and land Pit. He got knocked, as expected, and right after I pinged his banner to indicate we were going to pick it up, he quit.

I ended up messaging him afterward to call him out on it, but he just replied with a "Lmao"

EA and Respawn, if you are going to create a game whose very design is based on team play, punishment must be added for toxic players who have complete disregard for being a team player, even in the most basic sense of just not quitting on the team until there is no hope for their player to be recovered.