Is Counter-Strike 2’s new match-abandonment penalty too harsh?

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Mark my words, if any of you jerks abandon the unit, there'll be hell to pay...

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Anyone who has played a bit of Counter-Strike probably knows the frustration of having a teammate bail on a match early on, leaving your team at a 4-on-5 disadvantage. The recently launched Counter-Strike 2 is trying to limit this problem by imposing a harsh new penalty for players who leave a match before it's over. But that system is already drawing angry reactions from players who feel they've been punished unfairly for unintentional match departures.

In CS: GO, abandoning a competitive match early resulted in a "cooldown" period before you could join a new match. Those periods started at 30 minutes for the first offense and rose to a full week for a fourth offense (one offense was also expunged from the count every seven days).

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That punishment system carried forward to the closed CS2 beta in recent months but was reportedly ineffective at slowing down extremely high match abandonment rates. A series of popular posts on the CS:GO subreddit last month asked for stronger punishments, complaining that "almost every single match now has one leaver... I get it, you haven't played CS in years and you're butthurt that you're losing but you're just wasting everyone else's time if you leave."

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source https://arstechnica.com/?p=1972505
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