Guild Wars 2

It worries me that it took you this long to come up with what you have now. It worries me greatly.

The problem is there is no real punishment. I’ve played about 10 games of solo q today and had probably 6 people just go afk or quit mid match. That’s a stunningly high percentage and you can’t even report people that just stand in base afk.

I doubt people are going to be all that worried about a temporary time-out.
The punishment only forces people to waste their time sitting out a lost game, so they will, but they won’t be friendly about it. (And they’ll go afk)

Or they’ll just leave, which leaves their teammates at a 4v5 disadvantage or worse which will usually seal the deal, and these people won’t even be able to surrender and leave the game without being punished as well.

The solo-queue is brand new. You can now acces is from anywhere in the game. This causes lots of new players to join up. Give it some time to settle. I think most people that quit now are people who just wanted to give it a try.

In one game a guy said: “Isn’t this a 1v1 arena?”…..

Didn’t have a single leaver but myself (one game where my gw2 crashed) in my 13 games so far. But what was wondering me was that I couldn’t see this debuff that was mentioned in the patch notes for that one game, maybe it registered that gw2 crashed and that is why, but not sure.