But why? What is triggering the bans?
It would be nice for Blizzard to give us some insight on what they are looking for and why they are doing these bans, because without some data to share with the players, this will just make players think twice about joining keys, and not just pugs, but with premade groups also since leaving could put a mark on your account.
No one wants to stop doing content, no one wants to risk getting banned just playing the game, but this sets a precedent, leave and risk being banned.
I get it, it might be an outlying type of player being banned, someone who joins keys and leaves within a few minutes, but it might be someone who just leaves a lot of keys.
Why though do players leave?
One is the high key leavers who need a perfect run, 1 wipe is 75 seconds off the timer, 2 wipes and now you have lost 2:30 on the timer and itâs game over, and if you wipe close to the start why would you even bother continuing? Those players will leave a lot of keys, but now we wonder who is going to leave first and get that black mark?
Another issue are they players who are not ready, players who have not done any research on what M+ entails, players who have never done group content on this level, players who are âpracticingâ tanking or healing for the first time in a key, those groups can do bad and end up with players leaving.
But then there is the biggest problem, if a group is not going to time or even finish a key, if there are players who are being trolls, if you can still attempt the key, that is you have the time to do so, but can see it not happening for any reason, do you leave? Do you take the risk? Or do you hold the group hostage until someone else leaves?
This is all going to be a concern for anyone joining a key that is not going to finish, or not worth finishing, who takes the hit. If Blizzard are going to start banning others, they need to tell us what they are looking for, why they are doing it, and give us some options.
A mutual disband option would be good, but also, we need a new report option to report players holding the group hostage, and maybe Blizzard should finally start keeping logs and using that data to give players a score so we know who we are getting in our groups and for Blizzard to use that information when doing any future ban waves.
For example letâs use the log raid parsing, if I get into a group with someone who has a parse of 20 in high keys, high chance that person wonât be able to perform and could be a reason why groups are failing. And if said person is in many groups who are disbanding, even if they are not the person who leaves first, maybe they should look at that person as the culprit and not the person who is leaving.
At the end of the day, if you join a group with someone else being that type of player that is causing wipes, why should you get punished for them trying to do content they should not be doing?
