This is something that honeslty shouldn't need to be discussed. Today I was at my 7th game on a flawless card, and one of my teammates straight up left the match 2 rounds in, leaving the other 2 of us to loose against a full 3-player team and our flawless cards.
(Freelance for reference)
Therefore, when someone leaves a flawless game intentionally, it shouldn't count against, this way no one looses a flawless due to a teammate leaving. Those who leave intentionally should get slapped with a long ban that extends each match they leave before completion.
Could this exact thing be abused? Maybe. But it being a freelance only thing could help lower abuses as you cannot see the cards of teamates, and helps you not have your runs ruined by someone who quit in a 1-2 match for no reason.
Edit: Updated
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This would likely be abused, but i do agree SOMETHING needs to be done. I went flawless this week in freelance and the amount of players that left or gave up was -blam!-. I think something should be done to further punish players for leaving a match, a penalty that would affect the gameplay would be much more effective in preventing abuse. Id say it should be set up to lower your light cap for the activity each time you leave a match. For example: leave a match, you get a screen that says something like “you left early, light cap lowered by 5 for future matches this weekend” and i think if you leave 3 times you should be locked out of trials for the weekend It makes no sense that people can screw over their team like they can in freelance. Either you’re good enough to win, or you reset like a regular person and hope for the best on the next card