AFK instead of leaving QP?

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You’re punished for leaving, so you will have to afk in spawn and alt-tab and do something else until the game ends?

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I think a lot of people will do this. Blizz is delusional if they think that a penalty will make players keep trying the whole match if they wanna leave

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least then afkers can be banned in near future with how much quicker they will be reported for pretty much throwing

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I have a feeling that players will after a while of this have 1-2 heroes in their roster that have about 10-30% winrate…

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There is an afk timer, you get kicked automatically.

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Or you could just play the game and then stop playing after that if you’re tilted.

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Sure, in a great world that could happen. But in the real world, people play for fun. If the game isn’t fun, they leave. If they can’t leave, they will throw. Just like they do RN in comp when they get tilted

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And then they get reported for being AFK. Do that often enough and you win a better price than a 10-20 min block ^^

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What are you all talking about? I don’t understand where all these topics about leavers are coming from.

Edit: it got explained, thank you all.

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Or I just don’t lol

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There’s a kicker penalty for afking. So it will unless they just stand near the spawn door leave it before the timer ends. Plus, that’s already reportable for afking.

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You get kicked if you are afk and it counts as you leaving the game. Also in Ranked, if you leave, you get suspended for 10 minutes, then 30, then an hour and then for like a day and for the entire season. Also, everytime you leave your MMR or whatever drops too so most serial leavers will only be able to play with other leavers or people suck at the game so back.

So no either play the game or don’t queue. you will either be banned for leaving too much or for getting reported too much (people report you if you leave that’s kind of an unspoken rule)

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They changed the system to that if you leave 4 out of your last 20 games, you get a block for 10 minutes from all game modes. It punishes the leavers that leave a lot of games to “save time”.

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Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes - October 10, 2023 released today

so people are talking about why Blizzard is either delusional, or entitled to run a prison state that’s somehow supposed to be fun :stuck_out_tongue:

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blizzard is going to change punishment for leavers/afk players starting next season (literally tomorrow) and people do not understand that they are making the punishments harsher so they think they can find a loophole

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Ah ok thank you, that explains it.

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This is super easily bypassed. You can go a full minute 30 seconds before the thing pops up to where you have to interact with an enemy within 15 seconds. Tested myself.

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I hear what you’re saying, this is a massive step up from the xp penalty we’re used to. However, if a person is leaving enough games to trip the lockout I’d wager they’re not having that much fun to begin with and should probably stop playing at that point.

And if people start throwing then others will report them for doing so.

Entirely your choice, just be prepared to have a little blizzard-mandated ‘cooling off period’ if you do that too many times in a row.

If you’re fine with that, then hey, it’s your game time. You do you. :+1:

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And what do you gain from doing that? Just lots of reports which will result in a suspension anyway.

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I have this feeling that in couple days we have dozens of new “I was banned for no reason” posts from afk’ers.

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