DC Penalties... should be removed

So the original reason for the DC penalties being implemented was because the team would be down a player whenever someone DC'd. It was basically like hook suiciding, except minus the extra steps, just a straight up "Poof" player gone.

Now though, the player that DCs is replaced by a bot that can arguably, often times play better than a good chunk of the player base.

Honestly, I think the DC penalty system needs to be removed for a couple of reasons.

It does nothing, if a player doesn't want to play and they don't want to take the penalty, they will either A.) AFK in the match or B.) Throw themselves at the killer and kill themselves on hook to expedite the process to get to the next match faster. Yes, you encourage the player not to leave… but if they don't want to play, whether its because they don't like the killer they're going up against, or they don't like a certain perk the killer is running, or the map isn't one they enjoy, or hell it could even be that their rando teammates play like easy mode bots. There are plenty of reasons a player will not want to participate in a match, and holding them effectively at gun point with a DC penalty just incentivizes them to off themselves on hook, rather then eat the penalty.

This has another, alternative, negative side effect. The MMR system, or.. how the game decides to match you against other players of less, equal, or greater skill level. Generally its going to try to find you a relatively balanced matchup. However, if you have a player who is offing themselves on hook, it lowers their MMR. These players can be good players, they don't have to be bad to not want to continue matches. The trouble is, these relatively high MMR players are gonna start falling into matches with completely new killers and will absolutely steam roll them. I have friends who have thrown matches to get into easier matches against lower skill killers. You can actually abuse the MMR system to get easier matches and thing is, you don't even have to obviously throw as a survivor. You can play normally until the exit gates are open and let yourself get killed by the entity or get hooked or mori'd and it still all counts. But the MMR system is another issue entirely.

Put simply, DC Penalties in DBD or hell any game really, do nothing. If a person really doesn't want to play, they won't play, and that is a detriment to the team. It would be better if they could leave, get replaced by a bot that will actually participate in trying to win, and allow the team to actually have a better chance at succeeding rather than being down a player at the start.

Often times this puts pressure on a killer too, I know when I've seen someone kill themselves on hook at the start of the match, I feel kinda scummy hunting down the rest for the 4k. I mean it isn't my fault or theirs, but the player clearly didn't want to be in this match anymore, better that they get replaced by a bot instead, which still kinda sucks for the survivors, but hey a bot is better than a hook suicide.

It also takes away fun from the killer when a survivor just lets themself be hooked so they can kill themselves on hook. Since I alternate between survivor and killer, I know how it feels in both sets of shoes. If you have a survivor that just gives up, it takes away a good part of the fun of being the killer, its the chase and eventual "I gotcha" that every killer main enjoys, but having someone just go "Here, down me, put me on hook." its not really fun.

If you have any argument that can justify the existence of the DC/Leaver Penalty, by all means let me hear it. I guarantee you, it's not really something you can defend.