May 2020 - last edited May 2020
Hello EA,
I really hope the EA staff sees this!
Anyone who has been playing as a Random Player for any length of time, knows how bad/difficult this situation is, it's been like this since Season 1.
It is not often, when you play as the Random Player, that you are ranked up with players that play well together, have experience, or care really about the game play.
Everyone is playing for different reasons, but one of the main reasons a lot of people play for, especially those that are serious, is to complete challenges, get kills, earn badges and win the game.
Since Season 1 I have logged a lot of hours playing as a Random Player, to tell you, that barely 5%-10% of the players were serious, played well, or worked as a team, the 90%-95% were really bad, and that is really sad.
Rhetorically speaking, what's a person to do, that likes to just play as a Random Player, the truth is, it's really painful!
We all know it's just a game, but we should be able to play as a Random Player, with a better level/quality of players, ok, so people will say play 'Ranked', that is what it's for, but I disagree, 'Ranked' can be just as bad, if not worse, for the fact that the majority of times, you are not matched with the same skill level players.
The 'Bottom Line', is that there are to many players that are not serious enough, that are putting a Black Cloud over this game, and we really need to have a plan in place to fix this!
P.S. After making this post, I realize, the best way, is to make the game so people can't leave, they need to wait for their box to timeout, then they can leave. So EA, just make the game play like this, and now, no more need for a DC penalty for early leaving, because people will no longer be able to early leave!
THANKS
May 2020
May 2020
I never said anything about 'Legitimate Reasons', of course not...
This is mainly for those, that when they die, DC and don't want to be respawned.
May 2020
You've got a point, I agree. I also always go out of my way to try to help my squad-mates, even after they get downed because of their own stupid, impulsive tactics. but I know that not everybody has been playing since season 1. I myself only started 1 week before S4 launched. So i always try and help ppl, knowing that they probably still trying to "find their feet"in the game, even if I get knocked in the process. Quite a rewarding feeling re-spawning a member after grabbing their banner in the middle of a sht storm. But !%@$## annoying when they DC in the middle of you putting your life, and the match on the line for them...
May 2020
No, dude, no! We need a better matchmaking system. I will now list the reasons why players leave the server when playing with
• Players with high levels and good skills are mixed with new players / low levels and no skills.
• Lack of communication / microphones from teammates.
• The lack of team play/ I loot everything gold/purple from the dead boxes and I don't care about you.
• Lack of language skills/ the only thing you will hear is insults (which we have seen and heard in other games.
• Idiocy of some players/ massive pinging and crying.
• Fear of fighting -> Solo or you and another teammate fights 1-2 units, meanwhile the third is looting and don't care. A third party is coming but your third continues with looting.
• Lack of Legend skills / Does not use "Bloodhound's scan", "Wattson's Electric Fences", "Caustic gas traps" and etc.....
May 2020 - last edited May 2020
@TBTFW
I won't argue about the need for better Match Making, but you also left out one of the greatest reasons I see DC going on all the time, with nothing to do with anything you have mentioned;
--> Lack of Maturity and Patience...
I'm the opposite of everything you said, I am the Good Team Player, and I'm a Higher Leveled Skilled player, and when I'm matched with the lower level less skilled, that die on me all the time, and DC, why is that, rhetorically speaking, because they lack Maturity and Patience to play with a high skilled player and they just don't care what happens in the game, they die, they leave, that's pretty much it...
So until we get a better Match Making system, if that happens, for now, we need a penalty on these players, and there is a penalty in Ranked, so we should have the entire game the same way too...
P.S. The number 1 focal point/aspect of this game is that it's a BATTLE ROYALE , last person/team standing, which, even to this day, seems like the majority of players playing don't even understand or get this. So Winning is the name of the game, staying alive, but to many newbies running around, acting like they are going to wipe out half the map, when they die, just DC and run, which points back to the 'Lack of Maturity and Patience' I pointed out, and we might as well throw in; 'Lack of Understanding', to the type of game they are playing too...
May 2020
I would think about this the other way around; How can you reward players for staying if that's the goal, but still the game is fundamentally designed around this high rate of dying and re-launching also, so I'm not sure how to solve this.
They could have the leave option only available after banner timeout and then you're able to leave. If it's faster to Alt+F4 players will probably still do that.
It's also something satisfying for players to leave, it's kind of "the finger" to the team for whatever reason, they didnt help, just stayed behind camping and so on, so there are all sort of reasons why players leave. Generally the reason is frustration. So is that their experience? Frustration? Is that something you as a game designer want to create in players? Penalizing will just drive players away and create more frustration.
I think this game is just generally and fundamentally frustrating to most of the players and they keep playing for some sort of addictive reason. Lack of other games to play?
If they keep leaving early, maybe it's an expression of frustration with this game and they are just looking for another game to play, in the meantime, just killing time playing this game.
May 2020 - last edited May 2020
@JOTUNFALK
You do bring up a very valid point, why are they leaving, as in just overly frustrated.
Yes I see the DC penalty as a bad idea as well, where it will just frustrate people even more, to make them not want to play again.
OK here's an IDEA, what about if you just simply can't DC until you time out?
EA could make the game, so players can't disconnect, all the have to do is some coding to the game, and make it so you are stuck in the game, again, until you time out. So now no more penalty, it's just the way the game is played...
P.S. I edited the original post, so the idea now is that the game code is changed, so people can't early leave, they have to wait for it to timeout!
May 2020
i can actually understand why the penalty is there, if you are not willing to give your teammates a minute to grab your banner after you die than don’t play ranked - it’s that simple
however, yesterday i got 10 minutes penalty for my random teammate quitting
THAT is beyond me
i would kind of understand if we were a pre-made squad, but he was just some random guy
how is this even a thing??
May 2020