"We’ve seen you backing out of matches on final approach in your ships because you saw formidable opponents on the other team. That tactic could earn you a restriction from future Trials of Osiris events. Please stick it out and fight – even if you know you’re about to be visited by tourists from the Lighthouse." - DeeJ, Weekly Update 6/4/15
I don't give a -blam!-. I don't owe that other team my time. I don't owe them my ass to stomp.
If [i]your[/i] matchmaking system pushes me against a group that severely, [i]obviously[/i] outclasses my group of guys that has yet to get to the Lighthouse, I don't - nor does anybody else - [i]owe[/i] them our deaths.
Our penalty is on our card in the form of the loss we take. If you have a problem with people backing out of these matches, [i]then don't count them as a Win for the other team[/i].
Trials of Osiris has some serious design flaws. [i]Solve them.[/i]
UPDATE: I should have edited this sooner, I apologize. I am aware of the Change Character exploit some folks may have been doing to avoid a loss. I was admittedly fuzzy on this issue when I initially posted. I believe a lot of my argument still stands, however, and, as others have noted in their replies, Trials of Osiris needs something done to its matchmaking. A simple step in matching Lighthouse Veterans to other Lighthouse Veterans, for instance, would do loads of good in evening the competition by placing the Proven against the Proven, and the Aspiring against the Aspiring.
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3 RepliesIt's not a matter of being elite, but having courage. To many people in this game are cowards that run at the sight of trouble. The lighthouse is supposed to be the ultimate reward for PvP, how is someone that runs from a fight deserve to claim that reward? If you run from a challenge, how are you supposed to get better? I have been in matches that I knew were going to be losses, but I stuck them out. Sometimes we pulled off upsets other times we got our loss. I don't like losing but I would rather try and fail then never try at all. If you think about lore wise, the Trials are set to find Guardians worthy of helping them. Would you want to depend on someone that quit when things looked tough? Bungie could argue that if you intentionally leave a match the Disciples of Osiris don't want your help. The only issue I see with these temporary bans is I know of ones that got disconnected by an error code and got the ban.