The 30 min BG's penalty is just stupid

Mrtoobyy · May 26

Like the title says. It's just stupid in every way. 5 min is enough as it was before the BG's update. Why on earth ZOS do you have 30 min?

Teeba_Shei · May 26

The penalty ramps up over time. If you leave multiple BGs per day it'll end up being 30 minutes. I believe it still starts at 5 minutes. The penalty resets eventually though.

Mrtoobyy · May 26

Teeba_Shei wrote: »

The penalty ramps up over time. If you leave multiple BGs per day it'll end up being 30 minutes. I believe it still starts at 5 minutes. The penalty resets eventually though.

That can't be true cause I have left only one BG today and I got 30 mins after playing it 5 mins

Jaimeh · May 26

I have seen less people deserting lately (also less crouching on base, with the new inactivity requirement). They wouldn't have to put in these measures if players would just commit to finishing the BG, but if the penalty was 5 min, all those players staying on base at the first sign of losing or because they don't like the mode would just desert, making it extra harder on the rest of the group.

DeadlySerious · May 26

I think the penalty should be longer than 30 minutes.

Desiato · May 26

I wonder what percentage of ESO players are just addicted to collections and achievements and have no interest in any gameplay at all. It seems like a lot of players just go through the motions to tick a box.

Lydawobbles · May 27

DeadlySerious wrote: »

I think the penalty should be longer than 30 minutes.

DCing counts as deserting. No thank you.

cuddles_with_wroble · May 27

Desiato wrote: »

I wonder what percentage of ESO players are just addicted to collections and achievements and have no interest in any gameplay at all. It seems like a lot of players just go through the motions to tick a box.

If you read thru basically any forum thread you’ll realize that it’s a solid 60 - 70% of the playerbase that never actually does content or learns how the game works

gc0018 · May 27

At least do it for the <50 battlegorund, some XXX player just using all gold equipments kill newbie for fun, like his guy @SOLACEEE.

Now I am forcing to build my own gold u49 pvp account just to deal with this guys or I can;t even plays my alter account in <50 bg.

fakingfocused · May 27

I don't mind the penalty as is. But there should be exceptions to DCing. Happened to me twice as I was pushing scoreboard in the final hours. Finally just stopped all together since I was having to wait so long just to get back in the fight. I have got to say the timing of the DC's were really odd as I was about to close in on the top spot.

Weesacs · May 27

DeadlySerious wrote: »

I think the penalty should be longer than 30 minutes.

I never leave games prematurely - unless its capture the relic which I do the second I realise it has popped. The reason for this is because that game mode has just too many issues for me to stay and play. (e.g. silly scoring system, being farmed while in a much weaker team while the other team holds the relic for the duration of the match, players not playing objectives and turning it into TDM, etc). Its not worth staying for. I'd rather take a 5 min penalty than take the risk of enduring 15 mins of torture for small reward.

As a veteran BG player, what I have found is that most people leave matches early due to legit reasons e.g. absolutely unbalanced teams, players in their teams standing at spawn and doing nothing, or not playing objectives, etc. I'm not saying that they should leave a game prematurely, but I see the reasons for why they do.

You get to know and have a feel for the players who turn up and play BGs, and have a good idea of how a match is going to pan out before it starts.

Its not any different than turning up for a dungeon and realising its going to take well over an 1 hour to complete due to poor DDs, or tanks / healers who don't know their role. You get an idea after the first few pulls.

The option to leave is there for a reason, and I feel the 5 minute penalty, in this instance, is enough and justified.

I feel that if they actually fixed many of the existing issues, and also ensured every game was balanced and highly competitive (which I know seems difficult), then you would probably find less players, particularly the vet players, leaving early. I know a few of them and all they want is a balanced, well fought out matches with even, competitive teams.

What I have found, however, is that a 30 min penalty applies if you automatically get kicked for inactivity (I found this out as I had to quickly attend to my young daughter during a game). When I came back, I had been automatically kicked from the battle and had a 30 min deserter penalty.

So it appears that intentionally leaving a match activates a 5 min penalty, but letting the timer run out and automatically being kicked, triggers a 30 min penalty timer.

Mrtoobyy · May 27

For those wondering, I only leave BG's when I am left alone in the team. This has started to happen when ZOS introduced the 4v4 mode.
I don't care about scoreboards, achievements or anything I just PVP. When there is a healer in the opposite team and all my teammates leave due to the unbalanced/boring mode (4v4) mode ZOS decided to put in the game I just leave too. Not worth staying in a game like that just wasting time.

redlink1979 · May 27

Lydawobbles wrote: »

DeadlySerious wrote: »

I think the penalty should be longer than 30 minutes.

DCing counts as deserting. No thank you.

Being penalized because the game crashed sucks.

reazea · May 27

Lydawobbles wrote: »

DeadlySerious wrote: »

I think the penalty should be longer than 30 minutes.

DCing counts as deserting. No thank you.

That's a totally different issue you need to take up with ZOS. Disconnecting is a ZOS issue 100%.