What percentage of your games are ruined by DCer's?

5 minute timeout would still result in longer queue times. Not insanely longer but still longer. People would still DC and instead of just staying to wait for the 5 minute queues a lot of them will just go and play something else. 5 minute dodge timers don't discourage people from dodging. it just lengthens queue times for them and lowers the number of people playing by a bit. LoL has a 5 minute dodge timer and people dodge constantly. It doesn't discourage it almost at all. LoL has the playerbase to get away with shrinking number of players. DBD does not

No they wouldn't. When queue times were bad you already had people in high ranks not playing the game because they were having to wait 10+ minutes to find a game as killer. It would just result in a ton of people swapping to survivor because the queue times would be faster. You would have a large swap to survivor and would either not have enough killers or they would have to lock/limit the number of people playing survivor. You also ignore the fact that people not DCing doesn't make them better teammates. They will still be equally as useless if they are forced to stay in game. They will just find different ways to die or will soft int/troll until the game is over. They can't stop this from happening unless they just start punishing players for doing badly. Which they can't because they would be left with no playerbase. There is nothing they can do as developers to make people not ######### teammates or to make people play better. There is nothing that can be done about it and it's something you just need to accept as a part of the game.

They honestly just need to better incentives for players to stay in game. If I'm vs a killer I hate playing against and get insta downed when the match starts, saved, then insta downed and slugged, what reason do I have to stay in the game? I'm not going to receive any points and am almost guaranteed to depip unless the killer plays like complete trash. If I'm going to get virtually no points nor will I pip or safety pip, I have no reason to stay in the game. There's nothing rewarding me for not disconnecting or immediately suiciding out of the game. If I don't know the other players I'm not particularly worried about their experience if I'm having a really unfun game that won't benefit me at all. I would rather move on to the next game where I can get points and gain something from the game. They need something in place to keep people from leaving in situations like this. The battle pass xp will likely do it for me. Even if I don't do well, I still get some xp towards the unlocks for the pass. As a punishment they could take away xp from the battle pass for people leaving. Also, they could take away xp from the battlepass if you do really badly in a game. This would target both people soft inting and people who are just generally terrible at the game. They would have to figure out what the threshold for what they consider to be bad play. You want a good balance of reasons to stay in game and decent punishments for leaving at the same time. If they just punish, the game will start to die because people get frustrated and gain nothing from playing out those games.