Really, Bungie? In your desperation to make a PvP game mode where people won't cheat to win a simple prize, you've made one huge mistake, and that's losing *NO MATTER WHAT* if you leave the game. I have flawless Internet, but the fact that a fraction of a second loss of connection boots me out of a game and makes me take a loss when I have literally two wins left until I reach Lighthouse, is stupidly unfair. it's just unfair and thoughtless for you to overlook players that actually DO have connection problems just to keep cheaters from trying to get away from the loss. Seriously? No one is being attacked with leaving the game Bungie. So why make it this way? It's a win win situation. A person leaves without a loss and the other team wins. This is a problem, and it is cheating to get out of a loss, but not big enough for you to unfairly punish bad connection players for this. Please patch this now.
[i]EDIT:[/i] Also, note that mercy DOES NOT prevent a counted loss on a passage coin if you time out. This is another flaw with this system which further values my point.
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If you leave for any reason, its a loss, connection or otherwise. What else would it be? A tie? If you can leave mid game w/o penalty, then teams would just leave as soon as they started to lose. This would completely destroy the whole thing. If they allow you to leave without a loss, no player would ever lose again. The whole thing would be pointless. Players are already leaving before the mach starts and keep doing this in order to find low ranked player to play against to have a better chance of winning. If you're in a group of all 34's you will often run into player who quit out pre-match, to avoid playing.