-50 for rejoining a game?

[Kaedi-11739]

@Sciron-1840

Power blipped out for a minute during the first round of Route 66, around point two. Made it back for hero select of second round.

We win.

I lose 50 SR.

Why even rejoin? Do I still have a leaver mark on my “record”, or is it just SR punishment?

All for leaver punishments, but this piece of the design is terrible. I was there for at least 75% of the game.

Rejoining a game is only possible during certain phases of the game. If you leave a game either during the pre-game or during the first minute of the game, the game will automatically cancel (remember the 10 second rule does not apply to the leaver, but as a warning to other players that the match will cancel). You can rejoin the match during the initial hero selection screen if you are lucky enough to quickly reconnect though.

Otherwise, you can only rejoin any-time after one-minute of match time has passed up until the match completes. However you only have two minutes to do so without penalty. If you rejoin a match after two-minutes, you will still automatically be marked with a loss an be penalized with a -50 SR cut and a ten-minute suspension. This rule ensures that no one can abusive the leaver system by attempting to return to a match after deliberately leaving in order to avoid such penalties. Furthermore leaving three or more times in a single match will result in an automatic penalty. If you fail to return to a match by the time it ends normally (regardless of match result) you will be penalized.

Unfortunately all disconnections and game crashes counts as leaving the match and will be penalized appropriately. The game server has no way to discern a legitimate disconnection or game crash from one that is forcefully caused by a dishonest player to bypass leaver penalties. You can learn about this policy here:

Overwatch Technical Issues, SR Loss, and Leaver Penalties

Hey everybody, I wanted to take some time today to discuss Leaver Penalties and how they relate to Technical issues. We understand that leaver penalties are an annoying thing to experience. Technical issues can be complicated to troubleshoot. To add penalties to your account can seem like adding insult to injury. This isn’t our intent. The competitive penalty system may not be perfect, but there is reason behind it. When we created the leaver penalty system, we took in a lot of player feedbac…

@Brooster-1655

I proposed a policy that would fix this problem if you want to see

I will take a look and comment in a bit.

@Grey-1594

This should be fixed because some “leavers” would probably come back, but the morale hit knowing they hurt their team and lose all their SR no matter what makes 'em say fugg it and they don’t bother joining back.

Your wording is a little confusing, but I think you see why these rules are in place from my explanation. To further expand on this, I have recently players at higher ranks in twitch streams who are now trolling regardless of penalty by returning and leaving, which prevents teammates from the free option of forfeiting the match after two minutes.

@Comixfan-6222

There doesn’t even need to be any penalty for leavers.

All they need to do is add backfill to Competitive.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/competitive-needs-backfill/9120

They could even add a “reserves bench” for people that disconnect and then are able to reconnect.

I have commented on your opinions in the past, and my stance remains, backfilling is not a fair solution for the team that did not have the leaver. If the team with the leaver/backfill won, the other team would feel cheated out of the original match pairing.