I’ve had at least 4 games in the last two days where more than one person abandoned before halftime.
Really frustrating as I’m completely locked in for a half hour at least and can’t requeue. I’m not saying there should be a button that says “abandon,” but having a button that comes up in menu after someone has been gone for 3-4 rounds that says “Leave match: no penalty” or something would be nice.
External link →This is definitely something we're actively looking into currently and want to accommodate to some degree. More on this in the near future!
We also have some AFK/DC features in place currently, that if another player abandons the match we'll reward your team with perks to try and even the odds. We're also looking to deter abandoning matches with penalties (and more to come).
All that said we want to be very mindful of our approach to letting you abandon matches, as we don't want to encourage giving up when there's reasonable possibilities of swinging a match back in your favor and being able to ride the high of overcoming the odds. Hopefully we'll be able to strike a balance, and everyone with differing opinions will come together to like where we land...
At the core of it, for unrated I just want to play 5v5. There is no reward for winning, only for having fun, and 5v4 isn't fun whether it's for or against. If someone abandons, I really just want to start up another game and try again.
There's technically rewards in the form of XP and character contract progressions for unlocks, but I can agree with the general sentiment. We'll hopefully land with a balanced approach that works with both perspectives that are being shared in this thread... or we'll miss the mark entirely, learn from feedback and try again :D (but hopefully more of the former than the later).
Quick question, if those players who leave come back will those bonuses go away and the player not have any penalties? Or will those who come back still have penalties
There's a lot of factors that play into those decisions and outcomes, and we're still actively working through many of them, but yes those bonuses would go away (as otherwise you'd have a sizable advantage) and it'd essentially depend on how long they were gone (how much impact their leaving the game had on the match) that'd depend on if they'd still see penalties or not.
Ultimately we'd like to incentivize folks to not abandon matches :P
please something at least give them bans I've had 2 random people leave while live streaming yesterday 1 said I forgot i had to babysit other said I gotta go eat dinner.
We're actively working on the penalty system that'll go alongside the various other AFK/DC features we're working on, and there will be penalties associated with leaving games. What they are and how severe will depend on how long they were gone (how much impact their leaving the game had on the match) but ultimately we'd like to incentivize folks to not abandon matches :P
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