Guild Wars 2

I’m sure everyone can relate, you’re doing great, working well with your team or about to score major points by killing a lord or getting the orb and then poof, the autobalancing pops up. You’re now left with a choice, purposefully lose the match because one purpose decided they couldn’t stand to have a loss on their record or take your chances and end up on the other team anyway, just now you really have no benefit to having been on the other team for 10 minutes and scoring tons of points.

While I like the fact that volunteering guarantees winning experience, it is very annoying to be doing something for your team like capturing a point or scoring with the orb only to be switched to the other team that is now down a capture point/30 points/150 points etc. There really should be a penalty for leaving a match early instead of just providing incentive for not leaving and sticking it out. Fight the problem at the source. Make it so that leaving a match early puts you on say a 5 minute cd and you can’t enter any rooms until it ends. If you go in after those 5 minutes and still leave early in say the next hour, bar you from entering matches for the next 15 minutes etc etc. Have these “barred durations” increase quickly and reset daily as to not allow constant quitters to rack up hours of bar time(gotta think of their feelings too unfortunately).

My solution may not be elegant but I feel like it would get the point across that you can’t just ditch your team to avoid a loss then just rejoin the second auto-balancing happens and join the winning team that someone just got booted off of.

If you have any ideas though feel free to share.