Guild Wars 2

POLL: Should leavers be (temp) banned from PvP?

Example: 1st first leave/dc gives a notification, 2nd gives a 15min SPvP ban, 3rd 60min SPvP ban, etc. This doesn’t include character swapping, maybe add a mechanic for 30 second absence and add a report AFK function. Numbers can change, of course.

Options:

A) Yes.
B) No. PvP is fine.
C) No, but we need something else completely different (explain).

Isn’t there already a mechanic that punishes bailers?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Matchmaking_Algorithm#Dishonor

I know we don’t have the stats, but there are times where they get disconnected, so a ban is not a good idea. Dishonor will fix the issue of people raging out.

Need a better system for reporting afk players because nothing seems to happen over it.

I wouldn’t mind banning abusers, but there will need to be reset, sometimes people lose internet connection etc, stuff happens and they have to leave having a legit reason. They shouldn’t be punished for this, so if you reset the counter like on a daily basis it will be fine.

I crashed about once an hour today… I was in premades and I lost us two games, the second was because I wasn’t able to reconnect in time (the problem with having your strategy revolve around an anchor). So I did some PvE… still crashed, didn’t get credit because I crashed right before the final boss… then went to a custom arena for duels… crashed there too… Sat in Lion’s Arch helping my friend make a Necromancer build… crashed there.

Answer is B: no. While PvP certainly isn’t fine unlike in other games I don’t see an easy solution to the problem due to the way the game mode is structured. Some games are able to detect legit disconnections from illegitimate ones. I am not a coder but judging from past experience I don’t know that A-Net is capable of doing that considering how many things are intentionally broken because it was the only way to get stuff to work.

Very sorry for your stability issues, but it’s even worse then your misfortune becomes everyone else’s problem.

zxstanyxz.8769:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Matchmaking_Algorithm#Dishonor

Is this even implemented currently? If so, 30 second timeout duration? Seriously? Who would even notice this? They’d just think the queue was slow.

Sidenti.6035:

Isn’t there already a mechanic that punishes bailers?

Dishonor was in the game, but it got turned off a long time ago (I think at least a year ago). Supposedly, it is coming back when the expansion releases.