tmagann:
It would be nice to be able to leave on my own, rather than send a list of dead games to the mods.
You can make the decision to leave a game on your own as it is, there's just (essentially) a mandatory 7-day waiting period. I don't think that's too much of a hardship, especially if the game is dead and nothing's happening, and it prevents players leaving in a temporary fit of pique that they might have gotten over otherwise. Is typing 'Remove me please' in your PM with the GM (which everyone already has, so you don't even have to make a new one!) that much more difficult than clicking a box? Is shooting an rMail to the mods with 'This GM didn't remove me, can you take care of that please?' that much of a hardship? The Mods are *very* quick to respond, so the likelihood of waiting any meaningful time is practically nil - and if a game's dead, what's another few hours of nothing happening?
Players get grumpy all the time, at each other and at the GM, and often it's either a misunderstanding that gets worked out or it just blows over - but can you imagine how much of a headache it would be for GMs if players could just willy-nilly click a box and remove themselves from a game? GMs would constantly be looking for new players, or having to re-add old ones, just because people often exhibit no manners on the internet.
If - and I do mean IF, because it's one of those things that's often listed as a hardline 'Never Gonna Happen' - the feature to remove yourself from a game was somehow implemented, I think the only reasonable thing to do with that check-box would be to *also* put in a 7-day waiting period after the first 'Yes, remove me from this game' (which triggers a notification for the GM that a player has requested that), and then re-issue a confirmation 'Are you SURE you want to leave this game?' after the 7 days are up.
...personally, I don't get the issue. People use the argument 'the game is dead, I want to leave' all the time, but if the game is *actually* dead nothing is happening in it, and all you have to do is uncheck the box on the front page to keep from being reminded about it existing. It's not like players are limited in how many games they can be in. What people actually want is the ability to remove themselves from a game that -isn't- dead, because it's still active and popping up on their screen, without taking any accountability for checking out.
This message was last edited by the user at 16:00, Thu 22 July 2021.