Void Echo wrote:If you remove the leave button, your pretty much signing the ultimate death certificate of the game.
Exanple:
Johnny is a new player barely our of the academy, he joins a battle with no squad because he doesn't understand the game mechanics. But he's optimistic because he likes the theme of dust 514.
Johnny ends up on team A, moderately good players but nobody is anywhere near close to proto level except maybe 1 person, while the enemy team has 4 ancient exiles, 4 random guns, 4 Nyan san and 4 el eccinte Rio (I don't know if I spelt that right nut oh well).
Johnny's team is instantly red lined within the first 50 seconds. Nobody on his team is able to match their tactics, equipment level or communication efficiency. Every time someone spawns in they are instantly killed their only choices are to either stay in the MCC or instantly run further into the red line hoping they don't get shot in the process.
Normally in a game like cod, bf or any other game, you have the option to leave a game like that and look for another game that you actually have a chance at winning. So Johnny goes to the overhead screen hoping to find a different game but oh wait, the leave button has been removed from dust. Johnny wonders to himself why would a game like this force it's own players to hate itself. After seeing that within the first 2 minutes everyone on his team had died at least 10 times each and not a single person has a gotten a kill. Johnny waits out the battle hoping to find better ones aftewards. He encounters the same senario for 10 games in a row. Johnny instantly give up on dust altogether, biomass his character and Uninstalls dust.
Later that week at school a few of his friends ask about dust because they heard about it, he explains his experience and recommends they never try it. So they listen and don't bother even looking for it on the psn market.
This process happens about 50 times a day until there are absolutely no new characters being created thus, eliminating dust's growth and slowly every vet decides to leave the game because their tired of fighting against the same people over and over again. Thus dust 514 is finally dead. All because the leave battle button was removed.
This is what will also happen if you attempt to punish people for leaving battles.
No successful game forces it's noobs to be slaughtered constantly by veteran players.
Sorry to say I am with balistyc farshot on this thread.
Leave battle button should be removed, new players play against new players vets play against vets once that leave battle button gets removed devs can really dial in matchmaking, so it will be academy vs academy and vets vs vets.
Sure players that are so desperate to leave can quit the game but after a while they will realize it just easier to stay and play.
The game is already bad for new players putting them up against vet squads with no chance.
There should never be anyone leaving battles all that really says is teams are unfair and matchmaking needs to be skilled based once and for all.
I really hate seeing new players join and leave the game because they are not fighting against others in their same skill class.
It makes no sense at all.
Remove leave battle button, dial in matchmaker based on skill and all problems are gone.
It wont be as bad if people have to quit the game to leave a battle they simply will not do it near as often or will stop leaving entirely.
I cant see how a brand new player should have to fight against 100 million sp players such as myself.
It makes me feel bad when I kill a whole squad and I know they were academy, it makes me think holy cow is matchmaking ever unfair and needs to be skill based baddddly!
Lets say you started this game yesterday and played a battle against a squad of 4 with 100mil sp plus. You died 30 times because of the unfair skill base. I think you are more likely to quit the game after that brutal battle then you are to quit the game because there is no leave battle button.
Dont you guys n gals see we are losing so many new players not because players cant leave battles but because battles are not properly skill based.
Maybe if battles were skill based those new players would actually stay a while and build there sp and skill, but how it is now I see way to many new players quit there first day due to this.