Quitting too much in Gears 5 can get you banned for two years

One of the most annoying things players can do in multiplayer games is leave, suddenly and abruptly, in the middle of a match. It's not too much of a problem in online games that support bigger numbers of players, like Fortnite or Battlefield, but for games with modes that require smaller numbers of players - a single quitter can destroy whole rounds. The recently released Gears 5, for example, has three main multiplayer modes - and most require co-operation between small teams, where even just one missing player can ruin a match. Now developer The Coalition are taking deliberate quitters to task - and particularly rampant offenders are seeing bans of up to two years. A few affected players have taken to Reddit (spotted by SegmentNext), such as 'NoLifeDGenerate' - who was banned for 640 days and claimed they were given "no warning whatsoever." Microsoft's director of communications Dana Sissons replied on Twitter, and he said "we looked into this person's account and, in the last day alone, he has played 21 escalation matches and quit 18 of them."
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