Blizzard needs to start punishing people for declining queue

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This has always been a problem in this game, but it feels like it is worse than ever atm.

Queueing for this battleground Blitz. 5 minute queue and I have never got in without at least 3 people declining, which is 20% of the people who queued. If you don’t want to accept a queue 5 minutes later, don’t queue.

It is annoying having to re-queue and re-queue and re-queue. Just starting locking people out for declining queue. Not that hard.

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Perhaps when the queue popped they were in the middle of something (an important phone call?) and they absolutely had to decline? Perhaps nature suddenly called and they absolutely had to go afk? Sometimes things just happen.

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This doesn’t happen to 20+% of people within 5 minutes. This last queue that prompted me to make this thread had at least 8 people decline. Out of 16. Within 5 minutes.

FF14 has a system where you get 2 freebies a day and then you get locked out. I think WoW should give only one freebie for those emergencies you mentioned. Then you should be locked out.

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Until they hit accept, they haven’t actually committed to do anything. That’s what the accept button is, it’s you committing to do and complete a dungeon.

Until you actually do that, you’re just saying: hey, I might want to do this, how long will it take to find a party? Then when the game finds a party, it asks if you’re ready to join.

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Yeah this game needs more ways to punish people for little to no reason and break the community down even more.

I think they should also add a 24 DF ban if your ilvl is 4 points lower than I want it to be and kick you for inconveniencing me and making my dungeon run take 30 seconds longer.

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FF14 has a system that punishes queue decliners. The problem of queue leavers is far worse in WoW, which is evidence that punishing queue decliners works.

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I’d say a good portion of queue declines are some form of being AFK when the queue pops. Letting the dog out, on the toilet, getting a drink, etc.

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You never know what caused them to decline. That’s just the nature of the situation and there isn’t anything to do about it. They will never punish people for declining or missing it once it pops. You are just going to have to deal with that aspect of group finder.

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That sounds like an incredible way to get even more people unsubbing.

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This is 5 minutes. It isn’t 20. If you don’t have 5 minutes then you definitely don’t have another 15 to see it until the end of the BG and you shouldn’t be queueing anyway.

I would see your point if it was an uncommon thing. Emergencies happen. This is over 20% of people within 5 minutes, as I said before.

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You don’t know how long that other person has been in the queue.

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Yes I do because battleground blitz queues on the weekend have consistently been 5 minutes. It requires 16 people and faction is irrelevant. So it’s extremely consistent. Even at 3 AM the queue was 5 minutes.

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There are 3 different situations where someone is considered to have “declined”.

  • They logged out or timed out and were logged out by the system. The automatic group system does not check to see if someone who queued is still available until the group is full.
  • Something came up and they had to declined. I work at home, and when I get a business call I have to decline.
  • They are away from the computer, doing something else. Just because your wait was short doesn’t mean they haven’t been waiting long enough to need to do something at home and hope they don’t miss queue.

No punishment should happen. Seriously, punishing someone for logging out and going to bed? But I think they need a mechanism to refill bgs so the gates don’t open until both groups are actually full.

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So give people 1 freebie per day for an emergency and then give them a lockout if it happens again. People don’t have multiple emergencies or internet crashes happening every day.

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There are many problems with the queue system, but giving people the option to decline isn’t one.

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Yup. That confirms. The forum users for this game are OBSESSED with punishing people.

I think it’s a human genetics thing, the obsession with wanting to punish people I mean.

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And you can speak for everyone on this, how? We’ve been through periods with our ISP that we crashed every few minutes. As far as emergencies, do you have kids? animals? a life?

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The players who queue up have no control over when it pops. You can’t punish people for 2 events that they have little to no control over happening at the same time.

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A bigger problem with bgs is premade groups that are trying to queue sync. All groups queue at the same time. If not all groups get into the same bg, they all drop, and the players who did accept are sitting ducks, because the system won’t refill until it is too late to matter.

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My internet was timing out for whatever random reason the other day. I guess the OP wants me punished because I had no control over my internet. I already got the 30 minute thing for lagging out. OP wants me publicly hanged probably.

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