They'll still leave. This game has already lost 500000 players in 3 weeks. That player pool is going to get mighty small in the next couple months.

The penalties won't stop people. The structure of Gambit will stop people from leaving. - There is no matchmaking for solo queue people, so naturally they will want to leave if they see a 4 stack. - Bounties don't emphasize completions, they emphasize winning. Impatient people will leave if they need to win, and the first round was a blowout. Why stick around for a second round and another potential asskicking if the first game wasn't even close. - Final ranks emphasize wins. Grinding out the final 3,000 points is made much harder without a party. So people leave. People leaving are a result of Gambit's biggest flaws. Sure, people are assholes, but the mode itself has issues. 1 additional solution Bungie SHOULD have implemented, is a score increase for smaller teams. If a team loses someone, motes collection should increase by a % to give the team a mathematical chance at competing.

Better ask yourself why they are leaving...maybe because your teams are total crap and they have better things to do than wasting their time on a game that was lost when they were paired with scrubs? To me, i move out constantly when i end up with scrubs, as i know better ways to waste time...like watching grass grow... As long as Bungle is unable to implement a good and fair matchmaking, having a penalty is just a sign of their pathetic failure! Although i hate gambit and to me a giant turd, it's not as bad as most of the players playing it. Hate on me in 3...2...1^^

Why not fix the matchmaking? every time i try to play solo i get matched with retards who can't even deposit motes. they stay next to the damn portal to go in when it opens and die right after. do you know how annoying it is to lose a match because they have 15 motes and decide to run around or invade instead of deposit them?

I applaud people for leaving that dumb ass content.

I'm on legend rank for which a loss gives no points. I often join matches were one or even two folks simply refuse to move from the portal and play the objective. I will gladly approach those who do and simply leave in front of them.

It would be better for them to fix Gambit: If player gets the kill only they can pick up the motes unless they are dead. In which case teammates can pick them up. Player must be within a certain range within a small time window if they are not teammates may pick motes up. Motes now gravitate towards you when you run pass them and have a bigger pick up radius. When prime evil is out opponents portal activation is less active (because right now it's back to back to back). Heavy is less active during rounds. Pre made teams are highly likely to be placed in a match with other pre made teams. Solo players will be placed on teams of 3 to or get solo matches with other solo players. Every fives matches have a [b]chance[/b] to drop an exotic, masterworkes cores, or prime engram.

People will always leave if they are matched against a team and get beat in round 1. Teamwork is such a big advantage in this mode. If you have harsh penalties for quitting the mode will just die off as many solo players just won't bother with it. There absolutely has to be a solo queue for this mode imo.

Fix the shitty matchmaking instead. Wouldnt want to play with dumb randoms that can't plug a mic in, know the mode, or do anything besides using the sleeper as a crutch (because you're a bad player for using it). I'd leave you. I woulsnt blame anyone for leaving that person. Don't blame people for leaving against 4 stacks either. Matchmaking is garbage. Remove the 30min penalty. It's pointless. Quit putting arbitrary barriers in the game, you already tell me how fast I'm allowed to play my content that I paid for.

OR Bungie could just fix their god awful match making and stop putting solo queue players against 3 and 4 stacks, because not gonna lie the MOMENT I see a 3 or 4 stack I outright leave, i'm not gonna waste my time watching my 3 team mates hold 10-15 motes and not bank, get invaded and die and just get stomped when I can just go right into another game and roll the die hoping its not against another full team. It's literally zero fun sitting there being the only player on your team paying attention to what is going on around you and watching your blissfully ignorant teammates throwing a game due to their own sheer stupidity. No matter how good you are in Gambit you CANNOT carry a game 99% of the time. I have had one game since Forsaken launched that I carried against a 4 stack (had the most kills on ads ar 94, 100+ motes with none dropped yay for that triumph, and 20 kills) , out of my easily over 200~300 games at this point with 1 reset working on my 2nd. If bungie made their match making not the literal worst thing in the world and making 3 and 4 stacks ONLY play against 3 and 4 stacks then match making would improve greatly but its too much work for bungie to do something they've done in previous games (yes I know most of the people from halo moved on but still, if it could be coded into a 10+ year old game there is ZERO reason it cant be placed into a current generation game, anything stated otherwise is pure laziness) Fixing this games shittier match making will honestly fix a lot of problems that both gambit and PvP suffer from which is horrendously unbalanced teams.

braindead retards who make me lose every single game should be the ones getting punished

Or better yet. Give incentives for playing the game? As it stands it's almost as if the more we play the less rewards there are

The #1 problem is being paired with Jagaloons that ignore the drifter when he says "BANK THOSE MOTES AND SUMMON A PRIMEVIL (SP?)!" Jagaloon: "Nope! Im gonna continue running around killing shit and collecting motes for absolutely no reason!"

Why should I be forced to carry dumb blueberries?