I don’t agree there should be a penalty , heck that’s one of my favorite things to do when I’m playing with my necromancer and I’m lying on the ground surrounded by only thieves and warriors (srcm). There should be, however, a restructure in the way the whole thing works. When they introduced this server browser thingy it sounded good at first, they said they wanted to capture the feeling of fps games, but the truth is, this is not working at all in my opinion.
First, nameless rooms with numbers don’t make a very good system.
Second, there is a point in having servers list in fps which is to having the ability to change how the game is played (how long a game lasts, the number of players, respawn times etc) and , again, those servers have a name so you can favorite and play later on those servers again with people you starting to get to know.
Third, your issue is understandable but what happens when is the other way around?, when you get in a game just to find out that your team is losing and there is no chance in hell you are going to win but you endure nonetheless just to get rolled upon by a team full of moral?, are those players getting extra stuff by just joining a game? This is a problem that is more serious than the one your having in my point of view.
Fourth, they have to come up with some class balance system, where classes are split evenly on either sides, I’ve played games where there was practically melee on one side ranged on the other, not to even talk about the actual classes that are imbalanced at the moment. Most times I’m the only necro in the bg, some will say that is because nobody plays necro but I know that’s not true (I hope not), so what is it about going against a team of five Mesmer?
You can’t implement a penalty like lol because it’s a complete different system, the game starts with you and finishes with you, if you are not there then the penalty in that case makes sense.
If you are going to make structure pvp work like pc fps then give us the tools, then the players would be the ones penalizing the leavers, which some will argue that it will make it worst.
What I think is leave it as it is for now, when they implement leaderboards, if they ever will, they can penalize people by showing next to flags captured or K/D the number of times they left in the middle of a game and that my friends is the ultimate punishment.
But here have a cookie and know that one day all this will be fixed.
