You have to Punish Quitting.

Unranked, most likely, needs a leave penalty. 

I'm guilty of quitting Unranked matches after dying. The notion that I should watch my teammate(s) goof around until they "decide" to respawn me is irrational. That's why I prefer Wildcard. I play Unranked to play on the full map and choose my own POI, since Ranked is better.

For those who still enjoy Unranked primarily I think requesting a leave penalty makes sense.

People quit for a lot of reasons, some of which are weak and selfish, but many of which are pretty understandable. Often times it's a combination of both. But I'm going to throw Respawn under the bus on this one for one very simple reason. Last season they deleted about half of the replicators in the game. If I have a squadmate go down early game, it's because he's alone on the other side of the map. I can't physically retrieve his banner, and if the third squadmate can't get it either then the only option is the replicator. But now those are often just as far away as the deathbox. Is Respawn trying to drive quitting? I'm sure they would tell you they had other reasons for killing replicators, but here's the result nonetheless: more quitting.

I'm not saying that repopulating the maps with replicators would solve the problem overnight, but it's yet another sign that the dev is making very narrow and poorly thought-out decisions with all manner of unintended consequences. And I'd rather see them get their head out of their butt than have a penalty in an unranked mode.

And let's say you do get the penalty tomorrow. In my experience squadmates who want to leave, but are "forced" to stay, don't usually have a lot to contribute to the match at that point. Sometimes they even get spitefully counter productive. I would be lying if I said I'd never acted like a complete **bleep** when put in that situation. More unintended consequences. So be careful what you wish for.

eldercitizen

I said quitting in BR, Not talking about other modes. Not irrational, they could bring back if you aren't brought back in time you're out and you could quit freely. Other than that, It's been seven years, I'm tired of crybaby quitters.

reconzero

They've done everything to insentavise not quitting. As stated before, if you quit because you don't get your way, don't play BR. Quitting ruins the game because every BR game at least one player quits. I love the game but now when you playing you remember why you hate it also.

Talking to Reconzero is like talking to a wall, you say something is bad they will justify why it is not bad, you say something is good and they will just justify why it is not good. 

Person will reply to anything and justify quitting for any reason too. You will see this person on just about every post on here. 

100% agree with you on all that. Quitting ruins base BR. If people got a penalty then they would think twice about quitting after a drop or death. 
Even if the penalty was mild compared to ranked. Maybe a couple offenses before a penalty then give them a 2 min penalty, then a 3 min and go up from there people would consider playing it through. 

I agree, it's always annoying when people quit in br.  There was one pubs match where the two teammates quit that I went ahead and played and I know I could have won it if at least one of them stayed, but because one fight we took was too hard they left.

That said, the only match I quit in a long time was on wildcard.  It was me, a random Caustic, and a real toxic player that kept swearing at me and the Caustic.  The Caustic actually had a 4k badge and a 20 bomb badge on his profile and the guy swore at him telling him to go kill himself and do the world a favor and that he played so bad the only way he got those two badges had to be from just putting the gas out and getting unsuspecting people to run into it, which he called "lazy." (sounds like good strategy to me)  Then, he told me I was garbage and should quit the game because I only had 2 kills and 200 damage up to that point and was making what he called "bot-like" mistakes.  My headset mic was broke but I typed "This is a game, something people do to have fun" and I quit the match, since there's no reason to stay with a toxic player if it's going to upset you.

So, I'm kinda torn on this one.  I think pubs needs the penalty since it is shorter matches anyway and even if you are about to die you should at least give your squadmates a chance to pull it out and revive you.  However, I think the abandon penalty should be removed in Mixtape and LTMs since they are longer matches and have more cheaters and toxic players.  Maybe if mixtape is able to put a replacement player in real quick from the que like it sometimes does people quitting wouldn't impact the matches that much, and same with LTMs like wildcard.

Just a game. Don't put too much feeling on it. Community is dead as it is. Just embrace whatever this game brings.

What are you talking about? Currently, this game is bringing a ton of cheaters to PC and increasingly worse matchmaking.

In almost every match, I face Master/Preds teams, and 99% of the time, I never have such a player on my team, and they're usually weaker or average players. LOL. What's there to be happy about? From a meta that kills all other characters for 100 days? Will you explain? 
It's embarrassing how many times I've seen a player with a "pred" badge not miss a single shot. Is this supposed to be fair game? I guess no one bans cheaters in this game anymore, because I see them in practically every match I play and I see the same nicknames every day.

The only thing you get on this forum are free warnings and bans for telling the truth about their project. No one really cares about these Apex problems. No one.

If they don't want to ban Cronus/Xim and other things like in BF6, maybe there's something to it? Maybe they overestimated how many players would stay in Apex and the outrage it would cause in the community? Oh, and money. :)

Last season they deleted about half of the replicators in the game.

I just noticed this change recently. Replicator resets was an overused mechanic, especially in Ranked. Before the changes players were leaving fights "prematurely" just to respawn their teammates. Players can't do this anymore in Ranked.

I think having more replicators is fine for Unranked but not Ranked. Y'all better shoot your gun and stop running from team fights. It's just a video game. Most times your team ends up being eliminated anyways. If I see a dropship, I'm directing my team to ambush you "immediately". Send your team back to the lobby to rethink your strategy, because that isn't it. 

I like reconzero​.

He's a strong debater and defends his positions well, even if I don't always agree with him.