Is turning off game client and hope to get kicked to avoid penalty a thing?

scrubs and elitists alike have been using the "crash log" method to bypass the 30 min lockout since it was added. its funny when you dont kick em and they come back in 5 min like "wtf why am i still here?" lol

Of course it is.

I'm not the kind of person who does that sort of thing, so if I DC during a dungeon or raid, it's legit. I get back in asap and hope that I haven't been kicked. If I haven't, I thank the party. One time it happened when I was with a couple friends in Labyrinth of the Ancients. The party tried to kick me as soon as I disconnected (my cat had darted by the cords and unplugged my Playstation), but thankfully I was still on Teamspeak with my friends so I told them to stop the kick.

I always give people the benefit of the doubt in disconnect situations. Unless it's obvious that it was an intentional DC, I assume they're trying to come back.

Some people don't even TRY to hide the fact that they're using this as an excuse to bypass the 30-minute abandon penalty. About a month ago, I was in a run that was struggling in Sastasha HM. The healer says something like, "Don't have time for this," and logs out. Doesn't even try to fake a D/C, just logs out, knowing that the folks that remain are going to need to kick him if they want to proceed.

Another time, much longer ago, I was in a group struggling with Titan HM. One of the tanks says, "I have a raid coming up, gotta go," and logs out. The rest of us knew that our odds of actually replacing a tank within the time remaining was slim - and if we'd kicked him, we'd lose a bar of our Limit Gauge, currently the only way we were managing to get past the heart phase. (Yeah, it was a long time ago, and the folks participating really were that green.) So, we just left him in-party. He was furious when he logged back in twenty minutes later and found himself still in the instance, but none of us felt that much sympathy for him. XD

(In both of the above instances we did wind up getting the win, incidentally.)

That said, legitimate D/Cs do happen, and are PROBABLY the most common type of D/C. I'm guessing folks who force a fake D/C aren't as common as the cynics would have you believe. I do tend to get suspicious, though, if someone's D/C just so happens to coincide with a series of wipes...

I wouldn't be so quick to judge, speaking as somebody who has Comcrap as an ISP and who commonly experiences weather-related power outages just because of where I live. I've had my connection drop or my power go out in the middle of raids or dungeons plenty of times. Sometimes I'm able to get back in quickly and apologize profusely for holding everyone up. Sometimes, I'm unable to log back in for hours.

Folks who live somewhere with stable connections and no volatile weather patterns may see a DC and assume someone plugged, but I always assume the other person is just having an issue that is beyond their control.

That mess has been around since 2.0 and it was annoying then, still annoying now.

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Originally Posted by AnaviAnael

Someone actually did this to my group in a PF World of Darkness run. I believe he is now on a few people\\'s blacklists. lol

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Heh, I actually disconnected from a party recently because I was frustrated after lotting w completely useless tanking belt (mid licked greed) and asked to be kicked at first, then just said 'screw it gonna log' and logged out.

Feel bad for the party but eh, we all do stupid shit when frustrated.