Match Quitters need to Stop, No-Contest Result please
When people leave mid-match, the match gets cancelled. No win or loss to either side and just return to orbit with a No-Contest result with a temp trials ban on the offender.
Harsher impacts on repeat offenders and people who leave in winning matches.
Or for better nuance, people who leave mid-match later in a game do NOT cancel the match, but if the winning team then loses, the loss is not counted or considered a Mercy while the opposite team still gets their win.
2/3 matches I've had at the start of today had people leaving. Once my side, once enemy side. It's not fun, it's not competitive, it ruins flawless runs, it needs to end.
They gotta fix the matchmaking and lobby balancing.
Players are leaving because the matching system is garbage.
It doesnt matter if someone is good or bad, if players feel they are going have a miserable experience or they are going to feed the other player’s ego with an easy match, they are entitled to leave.
This is why competitiveness in this game doesnt work especially when there is a plethora of imbalance.
You should ask Bungie why the neglect for the core issues of the game are still lacking versus trying to punish players further with penalties in an environment that is already horrific.
Imagine if you didnt have casual or average players in the game mode due to having imbalance concepts, you would be matching players of similar skill and experience which would eventually get stale and uninspiring for play.
Hence the removal of SBMM.
You want players in the playlist because they enjoy it despite the odds versus going through the motions just to be miserable.
This game needs to be balanced, fun and competitive in nature.
It needs to be in that exact order.
Fun and balance can help create competitiveness while competitiveness without fun and balance can ruin it.