Today I’ve had 6 late joins and it’s not even noon yet. Something needs done.
I propose First time of the week 6hour account wide PVP lock, 2nd time in a week 12Hour, 3rd 24, 4th, 3days, 5th 7 days is cap.
Would recommend queuing with a friend. I haven’t joined an in progress game while duo queuing in months
What’s hilarious is when you join these games, the atmosphere is insane 
People join then leave, and the then new joiners leave after insulting everyone in the BG.
And almost every single player involved in the game wholeheartedly believes that the “loss” had nothing to with them personally and they were “stuck with bads” or whatever. (When there are probably a variety of factors that contributed to the overall loss.)
Having said all that, currently, although I tend to stick it out, there isn’t much reason to stick around since you won’t get conquest and it’s just not fun to get GY farmed by droolers.
At this point though, it’s random stuff so probably just going to have to deal with it
why should people sit through 20-30 mins of ally farming them than just leave and wait 15 mins before joining another? Tell blizz to fix random bgs and make them scaled or balanced.
Happens two or three times a week for me duo queueing, but yes… the larger the group the less likely it happens.
I think the problem with any system that would harshly punish deserters is that would also end up harshly punishing legitimate disconnects.
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It should be cumulative. If you’re disconnecting frequently, don’t queue until you’ve solved it.
First leave, deserter for 15 minutes.
Second leave, deserter for 30 minutes.
Third leave, your character will be deleted.
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I backfilled into an IoC the other day where the Alliance was slightly lower on resources at that point. We won anyway!
Always at least give backfills a chance before you decide to leave yourself. You never know the reason why the last person had left.
You queued a battleground. You joined a battleground. You Play the battleground.
Win/Loss, it just fades eventually, you become immune. Play for fun.
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i kind of agree they do need to do something
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If I disconnect I’ll eat the punishment if it means joining a already losing battleground becomes less frequent. 4 late joins in a row has nothing to do with DCs.
find a WHAT
lmao
Those things that we would have if we didn’t play World of Warcraft.
Players don’t even wait 15 minutes. They hop on an alt and immediately queue again.
Blizzard should make the deserter debuff account-wide. The system should also prioritize frequent deserters when filling in-progress, losing games.
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Yes. This alone would reduce deserters by quite a lot.
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or they’ll just “afk” inside, like I’m doing now against Ruthless premade ( 10 healers, 12 hunters… overcompensating, perhaps to fight another premade? nah… )
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I usually solo queue and if I see 20+ known players on the otherside all stacked and spawn farming in Epics… I would leave too. Why waste my time for their ego boost?
In that scenario, the main problem is the premade raid that circumvented matchmaking restrictions so they can roflstomp pugs.
When you leave though, you do realize you’re pulling another player into an in-progress, losing game? And their time gets wasted?
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… or they could make PvP more fun and a worthwhile experience. But sure, let’s lock people out of content that’s already suffering. Brilliant.