Wintrading in Light Party - Primal

[BloodLines]

My idea to reduce win trading and boosting would be to disable the option to withdraw from a queue in PvP matches.

[loreleidiangelo]

My idea to reduce win trading and boosting would be to disable the option to withdraw from a queue in PvP matches.

It might help, but I doubt there's hordes of other people queuing on Primal at 5 AM in the morning to really put a kibosh on it. Win traders might have to throw one or two legitimate matches, but they'll still get into plenty with their booster goon squad and we'll still have this problem. It'll just take longer.

[Zojha]

It might help, but I doubt there's hordes of other people queuing on Primal at 5 AM in the morning to really put a kibosh on it.

Meanwhile, every legitimate player would more or less have to cancel queue whenever they go AFK in order to not risk a free loss.

Plus, even in the higher traffic environment of solo queue, some players from Faerie apparently seem quite successful at wintrading and that's just the more recent news, it's not like this issue is anything new. We had wintraders in Triple Triad Tournaments, the Fold (PvP exp farming) and Lord of Verminion Tournaments, of course they'd be in the Feast as well, both solo and party.

The only way to truly "prevent" it is to either increase the player pool so much that even at off hours it's not feasible or not give people a reason to do it in the first place. The prior is unrealistic, the latter can't happen because politics. As such, the issue will most likely be perpetual.

[BloodLines]

They could also restrict ranked PvP during those off hours. But for Light Party where there is low traffic around the clock, I don't see that helping much there. Being unable to withdraw from a queue that has popped makes more sense to me. It's not hard to be at your computer when you are readying for a duty and withdraw if you will be away...