I'm a quitter (and it's Respawns/EA's fault)

By implementing a quitter penalty, respawn has basically put a band aid on a gunshot wound. They are not addressing the real issue. 

What the game desperately needs is a solo mode, yet instead of adding this they would rather penalize people who dont want to deal with the nonsense that inevitably occurs when playing squads

Really sad if you ask me. I would be fine if they had this penalty after adding solo mode but without solos, its just their attempt at forcing people to conform and make us play the way they want us to play, not the way we want to play

Well regardless of the penalty i dont like playing with noobs or idiots so im still going to leave matches as will many others. This system is going to hurt the game more than help it 

They could add a ingame LFG system and match people by criterias like how they like to drop, level, skill level, language etc.

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@Pantleon wrote:

They could add a ingame LFG system and match people by criterias like how they like to drop, level, skill level, language etc.

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There is Discord servers for this 🙂

Also im ok with leaver penalty but it wont fix anything. If you leave the game early (Before full squad wipe or losing your banner), game should not count kills, damages, XPs or anything. So kill farmers can no longer do "jump > get 3 kill > killed > leave > repeat" bulls**t.

that leaver penalty gonna be suck ,  thanks to stupid kids . 

leaver penalty will do absolutely nothing. 5 Minutes? I'll go walk my dog, go to the bathroom, make something to eat, get a drink, or play another game...  There are countless things to do in 5 minutes.. And I hate to break it too you, if Apex was to "not give stats to leavers", well consider the 50 million players just a faint memory.. You think the culture that Respawn has created will put up with that? Not on your life. 

Respawn focused on KILLS. So that's what the players adapted too. Lets look at 1 simple fact.. If you were in game, could you really how many wins you actually have? I'm not talking "Season 1 WIns" or even "Wins with full squad", I mean total number of wins with any given character?  Nope, you can't. That's because Respawn wanted to focus their game for the hot droppers, the kill mongers.. Those with the ability to pull a trigger and kill 1, 2 maybe 3 people.  Not the person out to win the game. 

Battle royal (plural battles royal, also royale)

traditionally refers to a fight involving many combatants that is fought until only one fighter remains standing. ... Within combat sports and sports entertainment, the term has a specific meaning, depending on the sports being discussed.

Someone just forgot to tell the derps, I mean Dev's at Respawn to focus stats on "until only one fighter remains standing"..  Instead the game is tailored to the 12 year old kid with moms credit card that can get a kill or two and then their dead.

So taking those precious KILL stats away and these guys would leave Apex in a heartbeat..  

I tell you, Apex is in for a rough downward spiral... 

Take my advice, just drop, and the moment you die, leave the game.. 

I agree it's completely Respawns fault. There is no Solos, no matchmaking, no ranked no incentive to win and play a game out to the end. All of this is having a detrimental effect on the community. People don't want to play with stupid unskilled players why are Respawn forcing people to play with these type of players. It also cuts both ways, why should low skill new players play against longtime skilled players and skilled premades. No one wins with the current model it's ridiculously flawed.

The game needs substantial changes to address these flaws not just quality of life and fluff added to the game.

@BoaFang7 

ACTUALLY playing with/against skilled players is good for low level players.. Back when I was the role model player, I actually started matches off asking my random low level teammates if they know how to do certain things. I felt that educating them only helped my agenda... Also, going against skilled players would only sharpen your skill as a player..

As for match making, that really isn't going to work.. If you have a kid that has hot dropped 17,263,716,736,216,378,213,178,631 times and got enough kills to make it to level 100, they would be teamed with a player that has made it to top 3 countless times based off of skill and strategy.. If you were to actually measure their skill levels, the kid would be WAYYYY down the list compared to the other player.. So what do you base the match making on? Kills? Wins? Time alive? There are too many variable to make "Match Making" work...

There is only 1 answer here, and that is SOLO's

Lets look at the top 3 reasons people quit..

1) They want to hot drop, but yet lack the skill to close the deal

2) They are matched with lower level players, so to them their team is horrible

3) Someone took "Their Character", so quitting is their way of throwing a tantrum..

Solo solves all 3 of those issues...  And for some reason the Dev's can't see that..  

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@ShadoWawker wrote:

By implementing a quitter penalty, respawn has basically put a band aid on a gunshot wound. They are not addressing the real issue. 

What the game desperately needs is a solo mode, yet instead of adding this they would rather penalize people who dont want to deal with the nonsense that inevitably occurs when playing squads

Really sad if you ask me. I would be fine if they had this penalty after adding solo mode but without solos, its just their attempt at forcing people to conform and make us play the way they want us to play, not the way we want to play

Well regardless of the penalty i dont like playing with noobs or idiots so im still going to leave matches as will many others. This system is going to hurt the game more than help it 

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Not only solo mode but an unranked queue and ranked queue based on avg placement. 

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@SxyAlphaBeastNJ wrote:

leaver penalty will do absolutely nothing. 5 Minutes? I'll go walk my dog, go to the bathroom, make something to eat, get a drink, or play another game...  There are countless things to do in 5 minutes.. And I hate to break it too you, if Apex was to "not give stats to leavers", well consider the 50 million players just a faint memory.. You think the culture that Respawn has created will put up with that? Not on your life. 

Respawn focused on KILLS. So that's what the players adapted too. Lets look at 1 simple fact.. If you were in game, could you really how many wins you actually have? I'm not talking "Season 1 WIns" or even "Wins with full squad", I mean total number of wins with any given character?  Nope, you can't. That's because Respawn wanted to focus their game for the hot droppers, the kill mongers.. Those with the ability to pull a trigger and kill 1, 2 maybe 3 people.  Not the person out to win the game. 

Battle royal (plural battles royal, also royale)

traditionally refers to a fight involving many combatants that is fought until only one fighter remains standing. ... Within combat sports and sports entertainment, the term has a specific meaning, depending on the sports being discussed.

Someone just forgot to tell the derps, I mean Dev's at Respawn to focus stats on "until only one fighter remains standing"..  Instead the game is tailored to the 12 year old kid with moms credit card that can get a kill or two and then their dead.

So taking those precious KILL stats away and these guys would leave Apex in a heartbeat..  

I tell you, Apex is in for a rough downward spiral... 

Take my advice, just drop, and the moment you die, leave the game.. 

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They definitely shouldn't give stats to quitters.   when you quit on me.  and I solo to top 3,  you shouldn't get that stat.  nor should you be ranked accordingly,  if they ever add rankings.

@RichAC 

Well just so you know, if you and I played. Got in a gunfight I got 2 kills and you got 1

I died 2 minutes and 30 seconds into the game

You go on to get top 3, 4 more kills and last 20 minutes..

If I quit, I would only get stats for my kills, damage done and lasting 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Since I quit out, I wouldn't get any stats that are related to anything after my quit. 

The issue is that if I hot drop, get 2 kills, die then quit. I am still getting stats for those 2 kills.