Deserter

[Sanctify]

Was talking with some FC mates in discord this morning and the topic of deserter debuff came up. According to one member, the debuff has been changed to lock you out up to 24hrs if you repeatedly eat the 30min lockout for leaving a group.

Can anyone confirm if this is true or hogwash? I personally cant see it as being true. What if you have to raid later that night and you keep getting trash groups you don't wana be in so you leave and end up with a 24hr lockout "sry guys cant make it tonight had too many shit groups in DF". I'd like to point out that one member in particular seemed very adamant and was borderline wanking SE on this "decision" claiming "people pay for this game and shouldn't be screwed out of a run because someone couldn't set aside the time or decided to be a douche and leave".

That above quote alone makes think what I was told is BS and it's just coming from someone who's salty/entitled as nobody can be held hostage to a group and a 24hr lockout seems beyond inconceivable to me.

[Endeleon]

Never heard of it, but also don't want to be that person and do this to people to try it out haha. Sounds like hogwash to me. Maybe rumormill stuff started from the "you can get banned for leaving duties you don't like now!" stuff that started with the new rules that came a bit ago.

[van_arn]

It takes a LOT of withdraws for this.

[Fellgon]

I personaly dont like deserters who wait for the group kick instead of leaving by themself just to dont get the 30min punishment. Or log out of the game and still in party wen it happens, so the group have to kick too.

[Endeleon]

I personaly dont like deserters who wait for the group kick instead of leaving by themself just to dont get the 30min punishment. Or log out of the game and still in party wen it happens, so the group have to kick too.

My favorite thing to do with those people is wait until the last boss(considering this usually happens in Alliance Raid) and then initiate vote kick right before. Such sweet justice after seeing them pop online and back off repeatedly.

[Sanctify]

It takes a LOT of withdraws for this.

So it is a thing? Could you provide me a link to these updated rules? Even if it does take a LOT I want to know how many and how often. How is it tracked and decided on? And how could punishing someone by pretty much making the game 90% unplayable for 24hrs be a good thing? Considering anything that matters is instanced based this, like I said, could cuck you out of anything from an entire raid night to simply do chocobo races. Seems over the top to me. Its like... we have the ability to not be held hostage by a trash group but in actuality we are because we risk a 24hr deserter debuff if we leave enough of them? Seems totally bass ackwards to me.