I think we need bans. Account bans from all rated pvp. If you leave X times within Y time period, lets say 3 times within a week you get a 14 day rated pvp ban from all arena not just solo shuffle. Ppl wont be leaving anytime soon with something like that. If you get this ban 3 times in a season your banned for the remainder of the season account wide.
Additionally people in games that have a player leave, need to be put back at the front of the q. The worst part of the experience is you wait in a 30-40 minute q and then someone quits and your back at min 0/40 of the que again…
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Tbh some of you insult but lack reading comprehension, quick to judge an idea without providing any solution, AKA worthless input. A rated pvp ban is the same as an account deserter debuff for extended periods of time. A ban from a portion of the game. This idea already exist and this post is saying we should expand the punishment to the account and after numerous times increase the length.
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i mean i hate leavers just as much as the next guy, so w.e im dwn for it
i say… just take the losses like a man and move on. it happens to the best of em!
i saw bluedrew lose all 6 in a row then next game win 6 in a row.
thats life son
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I sometimes get disconnected cause of my internet connection. I already get super upset losing 100 rating every time this happens, imagine getting a ban… Id just quit the game tbh
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Funny a melee would make this post lol You’re the reason people leave.
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Nah if you just leave they should just count the rest of the game as loss for the leaver and distribute the points that way.
If you ban people for leaving 3 times, there’s a chance you get dc’d in 1 game or can’t zone-in in the other game, and now you can’t arena for the rest of the week, its a bad design.
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it wont help solving ur q problem still as a dps. Healer matchmaking and mmr system need to be changed first.
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I don’t care what happens to leavers I care about the other 5 who just waited in que and got BS’ed. fix that before you condemn leavers to hell. Fix it now. Hot fix it.
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how about just making it so if you leave you lose x% of your rating instead… like normal arenas.
agreed. having an account wide ban however is a bit overkill. instead why not have an account wide silence which includes not able to use the LFG tool and also you cannot sign up for random bgs or random dungeons. the only way you can play the game is if someone invites you to theyre group and even then make it so you can only chat in party and raid.
Leaving has nothing to do with any of this, though.
youd be correct. but lets just say leaving a solo shuffle has a fallout effect on youre account. 
Why would a PvPer care, though? How is this meant to be a deterrent?
are you serious? youd be barred from using the LFG tool TLDR, you wont be able to form your own arena groups. ALSO youll be barred from using the random battlegroup tool. you wont be able to use trade chat or any chat window other than party chat. the only way youd be able to participate in pvp in any form is if someone from your btag invites you. yah. id say a pvper would care about ALL that.
I play shadow priest… Thats my classic character.
Locking people into a team based game with no way to quit is what leads to the most toxic cesspits of gaming like League or DotA or Overwatch. Instead of leavers and the match instantly ending you’ll just lose rating randomly half the time whenever someone rages and decides to afk in the corner in stealth spamming slurs at you. People are a lot more likely to behave and stay if they think the reward for finishing out the match is greater than the loss for leaving. The better solution is incentivize people to stay through reward, not punishment. Put in something like finishing out 5 extra matches of solo shuffle played, win or lose, gives an extra lootbox with no limit to how often you can get one, and like 30 matches played total in a week for an extra chance at vault.
It is beyond stupid that I can go 5-0 as heals in a solo shuffle set in real, full back and forth games, and then the other healer rage quits the last game and I get nothing. No rating, no honor, no conquest, nothing. Either make it hugely punitive for leaving or give me something for 5 games played ffs.
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Blizzard banned people afking in AV in classic. The same can apply in solo shuffle, 30 day bans for afking and doing next to no damage.
2005 was a long time ago. The player mentality is different. In 30 days I can have 10 level 70 characters conquest capped and at the same rating I am now, same transmog and mounts. If you completely gut peoples’ access to a game for abandoning a match then people will just outright quit and play a game with no such mechanic. Ladders need the bottom 90% to be an active game.