So somebody made a suggestion about penalites for leaving lobbies and it was approved, when I saw it I was like Nooooooo!
so I decided to make a topic against this, the suggestion was approved immediatly, I didn't see any popular demand and I saw no reason not to put this up for debate
Basically why I think this is a bad idea is, the site is free for everybody from any skill level to use, here we run into a problem, some lobbies would get it that there's an entire team stacked of players that are just getting into competetive and some players that have 5 plat seasons and are here to just chill... as you would guess that ends up in a 5-0 loss within 8 minutes and the new player team gets absolutely destroyed, it's not even close, In lobbies like that it's basically a waste of time, and you would imagine somebody would get mad and leave, because they're sick and tired of getting rolled 5-0 within 8 minutes when half of their team is trying to figure out the map...
this shouldn't give penalites for leaving lobbies, what you're doing is forcing new players to stay in the lobby and get destroyed for the prem players, You should get better by playing against people who are better than you, but a 6k hours player team stack isn't the definition... some lobbies are just plain broken
and I don't think you can implement rankings to go with this (as in to insure it's not a total 5 minute roll and that the team that ragequit does it cuz the enemy is just better and they're loosing), lobbies already take long to fill especially having to wait for a medic or heavy or engi, putting rank restrictions on classes like these will destroy your chance of filling a lobby, some people would start leaving cuz its taking long which further denies the chance it'll fill.
I guess you should put up a poll for this altho I'm positive it'll end in a positive voting in favor of the restriction, but I hoped to get my point out there.