I think we should get 1 free leave a day/week.

[Goji1639]

I made the mistake of queuing the Alliance raid roulette to level. After farming Syrcus and Void Ark for relic I forgot that some of these aren't complete pushovers, actually take a long time to complete and groups occasionally do wipe. In other words, garbage for leveling.

So, I left the group and was actually surprised that I was immediately given the penalty. I feel like we should get 1 freebie that resets on a daily or maybe weekly basis. Who's with me?

[Bacent]

Eh, you signed up for it. If you think it's garbage for leveling, then don't do it in the future. But you DID Sign up for it, bad runs happen, and it's your choice if you want to save some sanity and leave and make due with the timer or just slomp on through it.

Don't think people should get a free leave. They're roulettes for a reason, we don't know what we'll get. I'd suggest maybe asking in future runs that go like that if people remember the mechanics and offer advice?

[Vahlnir]

Whether you stay or not is entirely on you, as is the resulting penalty if you choose to leave the group. Just take that time to do something else, in game or out. On the rare occasion that I leave a group I usually just turn FF XIV off and play something else for a half an hour. I think the system is fine as is.

[Goji1639]

I mean, the point of the penalty is so people don't spam leave and requeue trying to get specific instances. I realize now that Alliance Roulette is NOT an efficient way to level, and I don't think giving us even maybe 1 mulligan a week to forgive these little mistakes would be abusable.

[ZedxKayn]

I don't mind penalties tbh, gives me 30 minutes to do chores I'd have otherwise procrastinated on, play another game or jump on an alt.

[Sotaris]

Why? You screwed up. End topic.

[Seera1024]

The penalty is fine as is and does not need to have a freebie.

Because you left your party hanging without a member. While in some content that might be doable - such as raids, in trials or dungeons 1 person leaving may be a problem. The party then has to decide to either wait for a replacement, attempt to do it without a member (may depend on which role the person is), or abandon the duty.

For DPS, abandoning the duty may mean they are having to wait through their long queue again.

Here's a story, was leveling up an alt as a DPS and queued into a dungeon I needed for the MSQ. It was a long wait. We loaded in and the tank immediately left. We decided to abandon the party and I had to wait again through another long queue as a DPS to get into the dungeon I needed to progress my MSQ.

That tank deserved the 30 minute lock out they got for leaving.

[Axzeriuth]

Oh no, consequences to your actions that you knew would happen before you went in. Then once again was notified about when you attempted to leave.

No the system doesn't need to change because then people would abuse and troll using it. Just do the content and enjoy if you can, if not just deal with it and learn your lesson.

[Zfz]

It's fine as it is now. Giving people a "freebie" will just encourage people to abuse it by always quitting the one instance they hate the most. For example people who always queue MSQ may always quit one of the two longer ones; people who queue Alliance may always quit the level 70 raids; people who queue Leveling may always quit Sastasha.

And the result would be that the system that was originally designed to "bribe" people to fill in positions for instances generally lacking players, now get even less players because people have one free exit.

Please remember that the roulettes aren't rewards you're entitled to. The roulettes are designed to fill queues for other people, and the rewards are to compensate for your time getting an instance that may not be the most desirable for you. Letting you get one freebie would defeat the whole purpose of the roulettes.

[squidmonarchy]

It'd be one thing if you left because of an emergency, but leaving simply because you didn't like what you got in the roulette is pretty bad form, and very much an inconvenience to your teammates. The penalty seems appropriate in this case, sorry.