Quit Punishment

This seems to be the go to argument for people that leave games: "What if it is something I can't control?" As if the general population were constantly dealing with the issue of having their gaming machine teleported into another dimension for a few minutes. I refuse to think that you can't do something about it. If powercuts are happening almost daily for you, then don't you think taking care of that would take precedent over a game? Talk to your city council? Get the attention of your mayor? Get an electrician to help you out?

Your other reason for leaving is EXACTLY why there needs to be a punishment for quitters. A punishment for you, quitter. What if someone uses that excuse against you? Would you say "Yeah I understand why he quit, I'm not reliable?" I don't think so. I think the real reason why you leave is you don't want to wait, or you don't want to respan with nothing. Otherwise, why wait until you are downed to leave? If you really think you can't rely on your teammates, why not just leave immediately?

Either way, thank you for serving as an example to my point.

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@Pretzelnutcake wrote:
Rewarding players who stay after getting killed (atleast until their beacon timer runs out) would be ok but nobody should be punished for leaving early, I know it sucks to be down a gun when going into teamfights but there might have been a irl reason they left or in my case powercuts are a almost daily occurrence and I sure as hell don't want to be punished for something out of my control.

Another reason to leave is, after a while of playing you get enough experience to tell when your 'teammates' are worth relying on or not, so if I get downed and think I can't count on them I just leave and join another match

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LoL actually bans people for quitting.   I've always considered it another form of cheating.

But until apex adds skill rated match maker queue I'm quitting all the time too....  Too many noobs, trolls that I'd quit the game if forced to play with them.  Never seen nothing like it in 20 years.

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@Pretzelnutcake wrote:
Rewarding players who stay after getting killed (atleast until their beacon timer runs out) would be ok but nobody should be punished for leaving early, I know it sucks to be down a gun when going into teamfights but there might have been a irl reason they left or in my case powercuts are a almost daily occurrence and I sure as hell don't want to be punished for something out of my control.

Another reason to leave is, after a while of playing you get enough experience to tell when your 'teammates' are worth relying on or not, so if I get downed and think I can't count on them I just leave and join another match

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Tell that to league of legends where a match can last a full hour,  and you get a warning the very first time you quit.  Keep doing it and get temporary time outs.  Do it habitually and get banned from the game.

If there's a IRL reason than you just have to live with the fact that you got punished for leaving. If your IRL doesn't allow you to play a full round you shouldn't play this game in the first place because you are punshing your team all the time over and over again.