Guild Wars 2

There’s a growing problem recently of people leaving tournament matches very early on, usually after the first fight at the mid point is lost they give up and bail on the match (about 1 minute in).

This of course normally happens with people that are solo queueing and get put together randomly, a lot of the times the solo queue can be absolutely fine and you can have a great tournament together with the random 5 professions you get.

However certain players are ruining all of this by bailing after it’s clear they aren’t going to get carried by decent players against less decent teams.

They often leave with some kind of verbal abuse in chat as well (see the screenshot) We had 2 players bail after 1 minute into the game and losing Keep for the first fight, yet the 3 of us remaining managed to get 427 points still…

If someone drops from a tournament and doesn’t return there needs to be a decent penalty against them to not be allowed to play in tournaments for several hours after.

Some people occasionally get dropped by a bad connection or something so perhaps this feature would only be possible by
A) Player drops and then,
B) 2 Players need to report them as purposely dropped from a tournament for them to be given a timeout.

I feel your pain, this is something I repeatedly shout in open chat, I really wish for Anet to introduce a temporary ban for this kind of players, it’s unacceptable to play in these conditions.

A 60 min ban from leaving tournaments would be in place but there are problems….sometimes people get disconnected for real ( I get disconnected like 3-4 times a day in SpvP only ), so technically I wouldn’t know how the system could discern the difference between somebody who leave and somebody who lose connection

I’ve had this happen multiple times as well. If Anet had a way of telling if such a person actually Logged off, hit the “Return to the mists” button, or actually got DCed that would be a big help.

What bothers me is when a tournament match starts when your 5th person hasn’t even joined at all. Joining a random tournament is literally a dice roll. 3 out of 10 times someone doesn’t even join and you end up in a 4v5 from the get go. In my opinion the tournament shouldn’t even start if such a thing happens, or add another 5 minute delay to the match and fish someone out of solo que.

Wouldn’t matter if they could discern a real DC from a leave. If they implement a system that distinguishes it, players will just unplug their ethernet cable. Easy workaround.

There just needs to be a leave penalty. Nothing incredibly harsh. A 15-30 minute debuff that prevents you from doing any sort of PvP. You could as far as how Riot handles it with LoL using the tribunal and banning consistent leavers, but that would take some time to setup.