This will immediately spark a controversy. But it has to be done. It need to be done. Some of the people in this community will disagree. I don’t necessarily need to delve into the whole principle. And the thread title alone summarizes the entire point.
So basically, this is the TL:DR: Don’t let the unintended victims be abused.
But if you want to understand the reasoning, Then I’ll give you full reasons. Essentially, how the vote-kick system is the majority of the party must agree to remove you. The reason can be whatever. Because the vote-kicked don’t know the reason why they get kicked. Nor why they incurred this consequence. They’ll simply be banished to the void with repercussions on them, and no chance for the victim to gain their reprisal.
The system is, in a sense, extremely skewed to the votekicker.
The vote-kicked will simply get vote-kicked. They will suffer a thirty-minute desertion buff. Cannot queue for contents while they wait thirty-minutes. Thirty-minute of their precious subscription time, wasted. With no chance to recoup from that lost time. You might suggest ‘Do other things. Just take a break. Just follow up on some chore’, but that’s not excusing anything.
That’s just punishing the person that got vote-kicked for any possible reason. Even if the reason is justified, or not. It proves no validity to keep a thirty-minute time-out.
The other thing is that it allows the vote-kicker to ‘bully’ that person. With the victim not knowing the schemes concocted behind their back. They will not be aware until the moment they’re forcibly removed from the party without realization. And they’ll not know who did this. You might say that it is to protect the vote-kicker from harassment. But those that harass the vote kickers of justify getting reported and banned. Therefore if the person harassing the individual threw insults their way. Then it means that punishment will be reasonably wrought in more sensible matter.
However if the vote-kick is unjustified… And passes with intent to grief that person. Then that’s where a critical problem comes into play.
How do Blizzard handle those that abuse the system? They get off scot-free. Innocent. This only encourages guild-groups. This encourages people to use the follower system. This encourages people not to play the game whatsoever. This ultimately encourages more obsessive control over who plays in the party.
And that’s an issue.
To give you an idea. I’ve been informed by another individual who was doing this dungeon with me. They told me that I almost got vote-kicked for being ‘AFK’ because I died right before the boss due to tank not taking up aggro from adds that they intentionally ignored. (Bear in mind, the add cannot be skipped. Big difference from skipping optional packs and dealing with mandatory packs. This was an add that was in the middle of a tunnel that you have to deal with.)
As such. There was a vote-kick against me while I was having to sprint to the boss.
Thankfully that fell through.
And so the auto-kicking system’s hand was stilled for that moment. I was spared from wrongful wraith. But for the times where vote-kicks did pass. I would have to wait thirty minutes. Thirty minutes of my life just waiting for that debuff to end. And I would have to either play another character to do dungeons. Thirty minutes is more than enough to run roughly two to three dungeons in a timely manner.
Blizzard needs to make vote-kick a repercussion for both sides.