January 2020 - last edited January 2020
As the title describes. EA should remove the leavers penalty because there is lots of reasons why the * outweigh the pros.
First off I would like to state to those who do not want this removed (if it does) that I understand your frustration of people leaving the game because yous want to win more and more games through your ego, or it makes you happy cause you're depressed etc, we've all been there most of us and you feel like the best chance of winning is if you have a full squad which ties in with my first point.
The reason stated above that having a better chance to win with a squad is true but it isn't written in stone that if you lose your team mates, you're ultimately going to lose the game. We've seen time and time again that the best players in the world who have worked there * off getting good at the game make playing without there team mates alive look easy because of there constant hard work on game sense (decision making, positioning, knowledge etc) ,Mechanics (accuracy, reflexes, tracing, sliding etc) and self discipline(always practising, keeping routine etc). That being said this reasoning should be more than enough to remove leavers penalty because if you REALLY want to win bad enough then start working hard to obtain the talent.
Having this leavers penalty is basically ruining most peoples fun by hindering the momentum of wanting to play the game. In most instances people die and watch for ages other random players playing the game when they are probably going to die anyways unless they are extremely good at the game to which no one will leave because they're likely to be friends, playing in an esports team or you're just extremely lucky to have a skilled team mate who can carry, if you're unskilled. One other thing that can happen if there is some really emotional players shall we say, they pick up your beacon and refuse to respawn you..... to troll you for whatever immature reason and there is nothing you can do about it if you want to play the game because the leavers penalty is longer than a game of apex legends itself which means you have to put up with the * whether it's your fault or in most cases not. Then there is the debate for accidentally leaving and it costing you e.g. I keep to a stream schedule that got delayed for 45 minutes in terms of gameplay because I genuinely thought my whole team had died whilst talking to my viewers and also as a result lost my chance to claim the winter express loot due to this accident. Then there is sudden interruptions that mean you don't want to play the game anymore for the time being and you can't kill yourself in the storm to prevent your beacon not being claimed or it being claimed and you go afk for 10 minutes to do something important because you'll get reported for griefing. The list goes on and on and on, in any case it leads to mostly the same ending with you siting waiting to play another game a.s.a.p or you unfortunately getting suspended because you're hand cuffed to mostly the inevitable.
Can EA please either remove this or give us solo queue so I don't have to wait ages to play another game. I think I speak for a lot of people in my opinion that we'd rather have a solo queue than wait and also I think in the long run people are just going to get bored of this and look elsewhere, I won't personally cause I have the determination of a Rottweiler and patience of a saint but a lot of others don't.
Once again I get peoples frustration and are glad leavers penalty is in place but at the end of the day if your team mates are not skilled enough it won't matter if you have a full squad. Diego, Dizzy could win by themselves at the highest rank in this game solo with there monitor turned off because they worked hard to get there. If you really want to win, start working at it.