So I run a lot of keys and it’s rare I leave a key. I would guess I leave less than 5% of my keys and I run 30-50 a week on any given week. I was in a situation where the leader ninja D/ced to avoid getting banned after bricking his own key with a bad pull. We had to wait 5 minutes for lead to pass so the leader could disband the key. This fear of being banned is getting a bit crazy. I am happy that they are finally tackling this issue but it’s creating some really bad issues too.
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Sure they didn’t actually DC?
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I’m more afraid to join them than leave them. That’s not saying I’m very afraid of joining them, only that I’m not afraid to leave…at all.
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Nah, guaranteed he got mad that the group couldn’t handle his crappy pulls and he alt+f4 to avoid leaving his own key and being banned.
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Do you get banned for leaving keys now?
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If you’re doing it 5 times in an hour maybe.
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Nope, you have to intentionally leave a large amount of keys for the purpose of trolling/sabotaging them.
But people only glance at news headlines and make the rest up.
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Banned or suspended?
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Well I was meaning consistently. 5 drops over the course of a 6 hour M+ binge probably isn’t a big deal.
Suspended but I would assume like every other suspension it could eventually mean a ban.
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Ok I got you.
Wow, well that accounts for the forum being on fire again I guess.
Thanks for the info.
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/moo 
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uhhhh… That’s not how it works.
Firstly, the penalty requires you are a repeat offender.
Secondly, if he did rage quit, and gave you an indication in chat as to what he was doing, that is also an offense that can be reported (with chat logs as evidence).
And third, there is no difference between someone leaving the key and rage quitting in the manner you describe from Blizzard’s point of view.
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I don’t know why everyone is concerned about the smoke and fire in this gif.
When dogs start wearing hats, talking, and drinking coffee we have to worry though.
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This is the exact same as when they rolled out the Social Contract.
No real, actual policy changes, yet people went from their normal behavior to being afraid to use chat for some reason because they’re idiots.
It’s that same crowd who is now blowing this out of proportion.
Blizzard does need to clarify some things about their stance on M+ Leaving though. They were far too vague about it and that’s causing more concern than is probably needed.
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It’s growing into a neat little social experiment. In previous threads we had people absolutely terrified to list their own keys, and sad they weren’t getting picked up for other people’s invites.
Now we have people afraid to take invites if they do get invited.
It’s like double social anxiety up in here.
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They were not really vague. Leaving a bricked key is not griefing, being forced to bang your head against an impassable wall would be getting griefed. They clearly stated that players who were banned were intentionally griefing consistently.
I ran a few M+ this morning (my 9 millionth ara kara run for trink) and only had to leave 1 because they couldn’t kill last boss. Not my fault 
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All of this wouldn’t be big of a deal if the key doesn’t get downgraded. If it doesn’t, the magnitude of the problem of leaving keys would be less severe.
I’ve yet to change my mind about this.
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So heavy snow and numbing temperatures keeping parts of the US in a deep freeze, destroying crops and precipitating nationwide famine leading to a total societal collapse isn’t happening this week?
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I left probably about 10% of my keys before, and still do now. If the algorithm didn’t flag you before keep doing your thing.
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