People should get punished by just leaving the game.

[Mamumamu]

Its really annoying.. these people most likely vote after THEY have failed to give up the game entirely but if some others don't want to and they cannot give up the game, they just leave. It should be banned.

[kennyemmy]

There is indeed a leaver penalty, so if they do it regularly, they do in fact get punished.

[Mamumamu]

Originally posted by kennyemmy:

There is indeed a leaver penalty, so if they do it regularly, they do in fact get punished.

How often do someone have to leave the game until he gets his penalty? Even if it's just for 30minutes or 2 hours, it won't matter much, because they most likely will do that again.. But thank you for answering

[kennyemmy]

There is a grace period, but they are intentionally being obsucre about how many you can get away with. I have seen people complain about getting it when they didn't feel they deserve it, so some people definitely get punished!

[Mamumamu]

Originally posted by kennyemmy:

There is a grace period, but they are intentionally being obsucre about how many you can get away with. I have seen people complain about getting it when they didn't feel they deserve it, so some people definitely get punished!

Okay! Good to know, wish you happy new year!

[Mr.Earl]

There's a penalty with the cooldown, but it seems inconsistent with how long the cooldown is, and when it kicks in. I've had hopeless games where 2 teammates drop and the other wont surrender that I've quit out of and didn't get a cooldown, and then I've had games where it failed to load, froze at the loading screen, and got a 30m cooldown...

[大笨象]

Because ELO is unbalanced
In multiplayer games, we often encounter opponents with high ELO and teammates with low ELO.
Everything you leave the game will always exist

[kennyemmy]

Originally posted by Mr.Earl:

There's a penalty with the cooldown, but it seems inconsistent with how long the cooldown is, and when it kicks in. I've had hopeless games where 2 teammates drop and the other wont surrender that I've quit out of and didn't get a cooldown, and then I've had games where it failed to load, froze at the loading screen, and got a 30m cooldown...

Leaver penalty applies at all times, it makes no difference between why you leave. Any match that you quit before a Victory or a Defeat screen could lead to a leaver penalty (even 1v1s, which is a bit silly).
The penalty increases everytime you trigger it, so if you continue to leave games you will get hit with a longer and longer penalty.
There is a grace period, so occasionally leaving one game won't trigger any timeout.