I got a “Lose game” status and points for a ranked match that I had a small connection lost on the last 5 seconds of the winning match… what the hell… : (
Extremely unfortunate timing, but that’s how it has to go. Otherwise people could purposefully pull their internet moments before a loss to avoid getting negative ranking.
It still doesn’t make sense to me, because I suffered all the damage from a loss… In a lost match you will already suffer this ranking damage whether you get disconnected or not… but now in a won match, that’s not fair, since I participate the entire match.
The point is, if disconnecting didn’t count as a loss, someone could disconnect at the end of the game to avoid punishment.
The game also has no way to know whether you were going to win or not. What if you were in a tight base race, and it was literally milliseconds between the winner and loser? What if the enemy core was at 1%, but they got a good comeback and wiped you all, then won obj and pushed? It’s happened to me before.