When they added the abandon penalty the player leaving problem just about went away, that was an issue since launch and that fixed the problem with leaving players, that was the time the game was the best too, all of sudden games did not end up with one player and there were not banner crafters then either. They did not add crafting banners till 2023 and i think that is when they got rid of the abandon penalty. That is years after and the game was great before then. Either way the game was the best when they had the penalty.
No matter how you look at it, a player leaving a team after drop or death is bad for the match, it sabotages the match for the rest of the team that stay. Countless games won with only two players left. More often than with a full squad.
Push comes to shove it does not even matter they trashed the game and many other issues like matchmaking. BUT them adding that abandon penalty back would make matches more fun for those the do not quit. Even if they allowed a certain number of matches before you even got penalized and made the penalty shorter. like 1 mins 2 mins 3 mins, add a min each time. People would be more thoughtful before leaving, instead of being dropped and leave.
EA owns respawn now too, they bought the company for 315 million. A lot of people do not realize that because technically they did not change the name. Its no different than a company that buys out apartment complexes and keeps the names of the apartment complexes. They still own and control them.
The only leave penalty this game ever had is in ranked. Where there should be a leave penalty. In unranked trios or ltms like wildcard... not needed.
And while I agree with you in principle about the penalty in ranked, I have to add this: Don't believe for one minute that a player who stays in the match to avoid the penalty is somehow a credible and committed squadmate. Most players who would have quit, would have done so because something happened in the match that caused them to be done with the match. Forcing them to stay doesn't motivate them to take on the cheater who just killed them, or to grab the banner of a dead teammate who soloed off to the other side of the map, or etc. etc. etc. A lot of the time people "stay" in the match because "penalty" if they don't, but they loiter, do nothing, fly out of the circle on respawn, you name it. There are so many counter productive behaviors an unmotivated player can indulge in. And we haven't even got to the most basic "put down controller and walk away." Which seems to happen less. There used to be an afk penalty. Is there still? That would explain it if there is. At any rate, I'm glad for you if you don't see a lot of these kinds of squadmates. I don't see a lot of them anymore, but then I don't play a lot of ranked. Anymore. It's a sewer. With or without quitters.
Nope they added it a couple seasons in and was in for a while. You are not a week one player.
They had abandoned penalty for a long time in base game and there are plenty of old reddit posts about people complaining about it. You lack logical thinking.
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