Please remove leaver's penalty pre-game

Lovelocke · November 2018

BGs at the moment is awful for pre-50 characters. Join a BG, teams are uneven (4 on one, 3 on one, 2 on one... why not 3 on each?).

I've been sitting in the BG for 10 minutes and it still hasn't started. But here's the kicker: if I leave I get a 20 minute penalty.

Please, remove this penalty if you leave the BG before the match has started. It really isn't our fault if your matchmaker isn't working properly and starting a game before it has enough players.

I'm absolutely fine with longer queues; I can carry on questing/farming while I wait. Instead right now I get ported straight into a BG and wait around for 10 minutes doing nothing.

jediodyn_ESO · November 2018

Maybe no penalty after joining a match but 3 mins have passed before it starts?
No penalty before match starts is too easy to abuse if you don’t like the teams.

Aznox · November 2018

Allowing players to leave as soon as they think the matchmaker isn't going to fill a BG is the best way to prevent the matchmaker from ever filling a BG.

Also plenty of games have been won with a 3v4v4 start or lost with a 4v3v3 start.

Other than that, i agree matchmaking still needs to be worked on.