I’m gonna lay out my goals for this thread right away.
I don’t want this to be a complaining thread. I know and wholeheartedly agree that its insanely frustrating to have someone decide that the key is now over and throw away a half hour or more of playtime for five people including themselves and all you get for your time and effort is repair costs and a downleveled keystone. I want to talk about why blizzard hasn’t put in any actual consequences for key leavers and brainstorm potential solutions to this system that creates so much toxicity and dissatisfaction between players
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I am not interested in hearing from forum monkeys that want us all to know they totally carry every key and eat 25’s for breakfast and any time we are not happy while playing a video game is because we are simply bad at the video game, unlike them of course, and instead should just consider uninstalling or something
If you fit at all into either of the above categories, then this thread is not for you. Please find another topic to comment on as a sign of mutual respect.
Now to get into it, I think that there should be some sort of system in place that either protects a key from being downgraded if someone bails or punishes people that habitually leave keys. The biggest problem that I see is that blizzard is capable but they aren’t willing. Solutions do exist, but they’d either be worse for the game or aren’t worth the effort in blizzards eyes. The reason for that is because there’s no realistic way to automate such a system.
I don’t think its a good idea to make it so that bailing on a key automatically punishes you. Sometimes keys are just doomed and you don’t wanna be there anymore and you don’t wanna waste your time. Making a rule about needing the timer to deplete would just have people AFK’ing, auto running into walls, repeatedly dying on purpose to run out the clock, any kind of degenerate way to get them out of the key faster so they don’t get punished as a leaver. Sure, blizzard could punish THAT kinda behavior, but I doubt they would be willing to put in some kind of system where they have a guy to sit there and look at some sort of log of the key to review what happened and dole out punishments. That is probably never happening in a million years.
People gotta understand that any rule that blizzard puts in, the problem players that have bad attitudes and habitually leave to ruin your keys are 100% going to do EVERYTHING in their power to skirt that rule and keep leaving keys, meaning the rules would have to either be so strict and rigid that we’d all hate it or they’d be pretty soft and not fully keep people from leaving.
I don’t think the issue can ever be “solved” in the way that people stop bailing on keys partway through cuz they got upset they died or they’re mad at someone else in the group for whatever reason. I think its more realistic to mitigate instead. Perhaps prematurely leaving a certain number of keys in a week, 3-4 or so, gets your account locked from doing keys for the rest of that week. If you get locked again later in the season, you’re locked from keys account wide for the rest of the season. If you get locked next season you’re just banned from the game because you clearly have a problem and can’t handle it. Don’t like it? Solution is easy, just stop leaving keys. If you literally cannot prevent yourself from joining groups, getting mad that strangers on the internet don’t play perfectly, then deliberately clicking the leave button, I think the proposed system would be perfect for you. Literal self correcting problem.
Habitual leavers would no longer have complete impunity to just ditch groups as much as they want whenever they want. It would still happen, no doubt about it. Just hopefully less. You also wouldn’t get instant punished if you DC or you get a truly doomed/toxic key and you want out. Nobody DC’s that much in a week, and if you say you do then I think you’re lying and making excuses. Fix your internet before you play more video games my guy. I believe something like this is a compromise because neither side of it will be completely happy. Thank you for reading my rant, if you did.
