Leaving warzones is an epidemic...

The penalty is you get zero xp, commendations, money, or valor and you've wasted x minutes of your game time.

Fair enough penalty.

I think it sucks that some players choose to bail at the first sign of trouble, but if they're quitters, they're probably not worth having around anyway.


On the other hand, if you're in a pug who has no clue what they're doing and/or people are screaming at each other in chat instead of concentrating, it's certainly acceptable to get the hell out of there.

I used to never leave, and would make comments of those that did. Then the opposing side started farming in Huttball. Get 5 scores, then keep passing the ball around so they could maximize medals. You have a choice. Stick around for marginal exp/money etc and increase your opponents valor gain increasing their gear advantage over you in future matches, or get enough people to leave to shut off the valor flow.

The delta of valor between you and the farming team is greater if they farm then if you leave and lose out on your minimum valor.

WRONG... people who leave are the problem

By accepting that you are leaving and getting no XP, commendations, credits, or valor you have "penalized" yourself but what your failing to realize is that you just handicapped your team by leaving. Anyone who leaves after 1 point scored in huttball should be banned for an hour+ from WZ's. They are self centered and have no team concept (regardless of the skill of the team). When you enter you should also be required to leave when the WZ ends... take your lumps (maybe you'll learn how to play defensive since no-one seems to know where their defensive CD's are these days)

There needs to be a GAME ISSUED penalty for leaving a WZ such as a deserter buff. I actually would prefer a stat debuff somewhat like a rez sickness that prevents them from doing anything combat related after leaving a team behind. I'll also get in before people who argue "What if I'm disconnected" and to that I say I don't care. You have still left your team handicapped. Do you think raid bosses pause if the tank gets disconnected? No.. you wipe and start over which normally takes time... so any argument about not getting debuffed upon WZ exit still does not apply.

Flame on, but I guarantee some type of game penalty will be implemented and when it does I will smile. Until then I'll continue to flame everyone exiting WZ's in general chat to make sure they are never asked to premade

EDIT: Yes this is QQ and rightfully so... only carebears and bad players will disagree that quitters should get off free.

The other day when i decided to pvp i got in the wz within a sec after signing up the 3 or 4 first times i queue'd, and guess what...i joined wz's already lost with 9min left of ppl farming the team i joined.. so if i dont bother stay around getting farmed for 9min...should i get deserter buff or any other of the penalty u suggest?

So i startet to pass on the once that got me in after a few secs, and i started joining fresh wz's, but this time my teammates died like flies, so i started inspecting them, and all together they didnt get close to my expertise or my rank, so once more i ended up getting farmed for almost 10min. So once more should i get punished coz i dont wanna stay getting famed.

The WZ is ruined for a casual player in a guild that not many ppl bother to pvp, coz u most of the time end up in a ****** group getting trashed by premades.

So u can ask for a penalty for deserters, i rather ask for wz queue's after the rank of a players so if im suppose to meet premades i atleast do it with ppl in similar gear that have a chance to win.

Part of the reason I leave is the WZ daily credit bug. If I've just played 15 games, won 5 of them and got credit for 1, there's no way I'm going to sit through a bunch more obvious losses. You can tell a win from a loss most times before the game even starts.