Spawn killing is an obvious problem and the only reason people do it is because there are no consequences for doing so. I wish there was a way to deter people, but sadly I doubt there is much that can be done about it. Personally I block and report them for unsporting conduct, but at the rate I’m going I’ll have a good 90% of the online community blocked. It’s that out of control.
There also seems to be confusion between spawn trapping and map control. Map control in an arena game is very much a legitimate strategy because it’s all about being coordinated and aware of your surroundings. If you dominate the map because you and your team is good, then good for you. But for example, if you’re playing Grifball and your one point away from scoring and instead of scoring and winning the match you grab the ball and hide with it while your team spawn kills the enemy team, then you’re an -Yoink-.
There is nothing legitimate about purposely not completing an objective simply because you want to farm kills and boost your overall kill count. I was just in a match where they did this and I spawned, got assassinated, spawned, got assassinated, spawned, got assassinated and so on. It was incredibly annoying and even if I managed to get away from the guy, his buddy would just back him up and kill me so that the cycle would start all over again. These two guys had over 50 or 60 kills each and it was all from spawn killing.
I pretty much refuse to play Warzone Assault now. It was incredibly fun when I first started playing, but now all you have to do is jump down and kill the enemy at their spawn. The majority of my matches never even leave the first round because it’s too easy to “defend” the base when you kill everyone in their spawn zone. Some might call this map control, but I disagree. There is absolutely no skill involved because the game forces the team to spawn in the same exact area every time. Of course you know where they’re going to be every time, that’s the way the map was poorly designed.
It’s quite frustrating.