July 2020
The abandon penalty prevents players from leaving a ranked match until their squad has been eliminated, or the time to recover their banner expires. A lot of players on here will simply say “just wait it’s not that hard”. But when you apply some common sense you can see where the abandon penalty is just unfair and gives more control to unskilled players. Now I don’t feel the abandon penalty should be taken away no, some players on here need to learn the value of teamwork, but why am I the one being held accountable to such harsh consequences when my teammate decides to jump somewhere on his own? Why am I held accountable when my teammate doesn’t recover my banner and keeps playing the game? At what point do we have to get to before we realize this is a extremely lopsided penalty.
i feel respawn needs to remove a time penalty and increase the loss of RP points to hold players accountable without wasting a players time in a match. If ranked matches are taken so seriously by respawn I don’t see how they have not created an algorithm that pairs players with similar stats to at least alleviate the pain of playing with an inexperienced player. Once again people will say “the game is just meant to be played for fun” if it were meant for fun then there would be no tournaments for the game, yet there are, people also refuse to except that any multiplayer game is naturally competitive which is why the penalty in its current state is biased toward inexperienced players.
Feel free to brainstorm ideas here! Let me know what you think? And let’s keep this civil and see if we can really make a change people!