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blkarmphoenix's avatar
blkarmphoenix
5 years ago

Day 4 of posting until Respawn implements a functional abandon penalty.

Title says it all.  I will be posting a thread daily until Respawn implements an acceptable abandon penalty in unranked matches. I'm getting really tired of people leaving when knocked, quitting in ...
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blkarmphoenix's avatar
blkarmphoenix
5 years ago

Four days in. Lots of discussion generated here!

I find it amusing that the majority of folks who seem to oppose a harsher abandonment penalty for unranked, seem to also be the ones who admit to abandoning at the drop of a hat. 

1. If your squads jumpmaster is heading somewhere you don't like, or don't agree with... Welcome to playing with randoms! Sometimes, you drop crappy.  It doesn't help anyone to pretentiously leave on an unfavorable drop. 

2. Maybe this is a hot take... but if your banner gets picked up, and the person who grabbed it outright refuses to respawn you,  then you have probably not been a very nice teammate to begin with.  Wait your 2 minutes,  grab a glass of water, and leave when your timer is up.  

Day 4. 

  • Peri_Longbow_pl's avatar
    Peri_Longbow_pl
    5 years ago
    @blkarmphoenix I honestly enjoy the irony in your words or the words of @Daze623. You don't like being put into disadvantageous spots by team mates who leave the game. You feel unfairly treated. Nothing wrong with that.

    Yet you seem to be acceptive towards people who put us into unfavorable situations and don't want to realize that it's those people who make us leave in the first place. I find this a little hypocritical if anything.

    Then - honestly - I wish for report options like "Bad team mates". This option will likely be used a lot, but at least I can do something about the team mates that straight up refuse to play as a team.

    Or - Just give me solo mode, then I don't have to bother with either.
    • blkarmphoenix's avatar
      blkarmphoenix
      5 years ago
      @Peri_Longbow_plz Nobody makes you do anything. Human beings are more than capable of being responsible for their own actions.

      It is not hypocritical in the slightest. I never claim that every teammate plays their part perfectly but if you're rolling the dice on your teammates you need to be prepared to stick out the bad rolls.

      At a MAXIMUM we are talking 2 minutes here. If your banner gets picked up and you don't get respawned in 2 minutes you can leave (actually I think it's less than that).

      The root problem here is that people who leave games prematurely can't give another random player the benefit of the doubt for a mere 120 seconds. If that isn't the definition of toxicity, then I don't know what is. This needs addressed. Plain and simple.
      • blkarmphoenix's avatar
        blkarmphoenix
        5 years ago

        I also think there is a fair amount of hyperbole going around here.

        I am a level 500 player with over 1k hours in Apex, and I can say beyond any shadow of a doubt that the number of games ive seen people ACTIVELY throwing  (landing across map, punching repeatedly on drop, grabbing banners without respawning) are minimal. 

        Anecdotally, I would say 2% of games I play contain a downright troll.  

        However I would say at LEAST 50% contain an abandoner. Something doesn't add up here.

    • BaldWraithSimp's avatar
      BaldWraithSimp
      5 years ago
      @Peri_Longbow_plz If you are forced to leave 1 out of every 4 game, then at this point you are just looking for slightest chance to quit. All the examples you provided are so rare. You don't want to actually play the game, but just land, die and repeat.
      • Peri_Longbow_pl's avatar
        Peri_Longbow_pl
        5 years ago
        @BaldWraithSimp No? Don't make assumptions about how I play, thank you very much. If I didn't want to play the game, I wouldn't even show my face in the forums and play something else. As simple as that.

        But when some players act like they're intentionally trying to be bad, then I honestly see no need to stick around. The moment someone in my squad parts too far from the group, or do everything else but fight an enemy squad, this is honestly more damaging for the gameplay than me leaving when someone was obviously not being a team player.

        Or what makes me - in your eyes - a worse team player than the guy who runs 200 meters away and parts from the group, so effectively my squad mate and I are are a 2-man squad? I'd like to hear an explanation from your side. Because so far all I heard was "Peri bad!"
    • Daze623's avatar
      Daze623
      5 years ago
      @Peri_Longbow_plz what do you mean acceptive? Just because we want leavers punished doesn't mean we condone trolls/griefers. It's just that we experience more leavers than we experience trolls, there's nothing hypocritical about it. First and foremost trolls and griefers should have been a reportable offense to begin with anyway I don't know why they don't have this in their report system.
      • hayhor's avatar
        hayhor
        Hero
        5 years ago

        I wonder how many leavers leave to avoid deaths. Think about the ones that only get knocked and leave before the death. Maybe if leaving when knocked counted as a death people wouldnt leave as much?

        I think lots leave just because of this.

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