I get the lockups, but the penalties! You have got to be kidding!
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Two hours penalty for HAVING to quit the screen because YOUR game you programmed locks up! Come on! Fix this, that is ridiculous. Once it locks up its a wait off....for eternity - someone has to move on with their lives - Fix your game
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Yeah it's pretty ridiculous. My game just froze up and kicked me then gave me a 3 hour penalty.
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Okay.....This is next level programming stupidity. I have not quit out of a game in over week, my brother and I play co-op, its fun, its what we like to play.....inevitably the game freezes up, always, its guaranteed. We try and wait out the other players, the other players try and wait us out....Why? because SDS in their wisdom hands out escalating penalties for dropping out of their frozen game. Nobody wants to drop, but we can't sit there for an hour waiting for the game to drop or whatever. So latest long freeze I say to myself, "well its been over a week since I quit the game to try and play another, penalty has to reset right???" Nope 4HR PENALTY! Ridiculous! You are penalizing people for wanting to play your game. Eliminate the penalty until you fix your game, whether its old Gen or Next Gen....it does not matter. We spent a lot of money for a functioning product. If its broken, and you can't correct it, then eliminate the penalty. Please, its all we ask.
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Note, this is after you patched the game. Patch is not working. Take out the penalty until quality control confirms there are no freeze issues. Just because it reaches a freeze percentage you find "acceptable" does not mean it meets the playing communities definition of acceptable.
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Turn your controller off, then on again. It literally just worked for my friend and I in a Co-op game that froze. Had to do it a couple times for both of us, but it un-froze, or, “thawed”
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I have played enough games where there have been times where I got into "chat" back and for and it resyncs, or like you said, keep turning controller on and off again and maybe something happens. But have played this mode so much to know there is no one "fix" to this issue. Sometimes you are just literally stuck in a complete wait off. And since penalties are so egregiously bad, people will wait for eternity before dropping the game...and I get it. The penalties are insane and stupid. Why do they even exist? If a game does not freeze and I am getting reamed, I would just concede. I know kids these days don't do that, but geez - Point being - we should not face any penalty because of a game/programming/server/console conflict issue. They should just eliminate the penalty.
