Again, can we do something about the people that keep leaving games all the time over and over. People haven’t cared about the exp penalty for a long time now and it’s just going to keep getting worse. Please do something about people who keep leaving matches because their team isn’t winning. At this point I don’t care what it is as long as it’s something that will discourage them from leaving. Don’t allow them to re-queue for 30 minutes or something.
sorry man if you’re playing quick play and the moira has gold damage for the first one and a half rounds there’s not really a good reason to stick around and waste your time
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Sorry but that’s not a valid excuse to leave. If you keep leaving before a match is over you should be locked out for a short bit. It’s amazing how people like you only think of themselves. You never once step back and consider the person that backfills into the match you were in only to be see in instant game over screen.
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If someone leaves a game they should be locked out from being able to queue until the match they left has fully completed (including potg, cards, and stats screens).
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A better option would be to either:
- Make backfill more rewarding
- Optionally disable backfill matches
You could also go from that and perhaps do some additional changes to matchmaking such as:
- Prioritise backfill matches for players who have recently left matches often
- Prevent backfill players for matches which appear to be nearly finished
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The problem I see is where is the line. I know I have left several matches in a row at times because I kept running into a very toxic player, who yeah, I had reported, but I kept getting matched with him (and I was out of avoid player spots). Is it 3 matches? Is it a percentage? How high does it have to be, and specifically, how high does it have to be without people noticing it and working around it. In the OP’s case, I don’t think that’s a reasonable excuse: but there are reasonable scenarios that play out that people would want to avoid.
Sorry man, but whatever terrible excuse for leaving you have is terrible and you deserve your penalty.
It’s clear how it currently is doesn’t matter and the backfill will still be there. They should do like what’s in WoW, you leave a match you get a 15 minute penalty before you can queue again.
Now I personally don’t care about backfilling into a lost match. It’s like 20 seconds and free exp. I’ll backfill all day.
What does get annoying is how many people leave mid match. I can genuinely say (anecdotal evidence) it’s never been this bad for me. I get that sometimes people have issues and have to leave.
But why are so many people leaving because we lost one round of control point? Maybe let’s fix it instead of running from a learning experience?
Oh also, people who stay the whole match but still leave before potg and cards. Thanks for playing till the end. Still rude. ![:face_with_raised_eyebrow:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/face_with_raised_eyebrow.png?v=5" ":face_with_raised_eyebrow:")
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My name is Krojack and, to justify my own feelings of frustration, I speak authoritatively for every single Overwatch player in existence…
No need to embellishment. State your case, and your proposed solution. Being overly dramatic diminishes your case for…pretty much anything in life.
-It’s Quickplay, why do you care (says the fifth dps in my team)
-It’s Quickplay, why do you care (says the dude who c9 on first point in koth)
-It’s Quickplay, why do you care (says the team who plays for kills and neglects teamwork and objective)
-It’s Quickplay, why do you care (I would love to say when I leave a game of one of the above)
Really I try to get along with my team, but if they keep doing the 3 first things altough I’ve asked nicely to change their behaviour a bit, it’s for both you and me that I leave : I don’t wanna get toxic
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I want to know who these people are who genuinely get frustrated over people leaving in quick play… Actually on second thought I don’t want to know these people at all.
You know why people leave a losing game right before the end of the match? It’s to avoid the queue delay that bliz puts in after a match is over. I don’t want to spend my limited game time waiting because blizz wants to make us look at their useless cards and stripped down stats.
So you leave the game, avoid a player on your team, and requeue. Usually you can pick up another game in 20 seconds as compared to 2-4 minutes if you stay until the end. Whats even worse is if you stay until the end of a losing game, requeue, and then get backfilled into another losing game with 20 seconds left or a defeat screen. Then you get the delay AGAIN.
Get rid of that delay and you may reduce leavers. As I say all the time to the screen while i’m playing overwatch:
Stop wasting my time, blizz.
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There can be a reason a lot of players feel that leaving a match is justifiable. For instance: if it is obvious some of their team mates have no interest in trying to win (not grouping, feeding, etc) - sticking around in a losing match feels like a horrid waste of time.
To be honest, anytime I get put into a match as back fill I automatically assume it will be a loss and by my records, over 90% of the time I am correct. I still stick it out until the match completes after I back fill but within a few moments of being in that match it becomes painfully obvious why the previous person ditched it.
I dread back fill matches. Most of the time they are just a waste of time. So, I avoid them by using LFG every chance I get. It is a very rare thing to see one of my team leaves during a match when the team was built before we queued. Queuing with a full six stack means you want be back filling into a loosing match. Any match you get into will be a fresh start.
Having said all that - I realize in quick play, back filling is a necessary evil. Fine, if it has to exist, then make it more rewarding. Add either more XP or achievements for back filling and winning. If you just back fill and opt to ride the loser train to the end, you should get nothing.
I also like the idea of putting players in a back fill only queue if they have left matches recently.
My name is CultofZAL and I don’t like reading everything.
I’ve also posted many many times in the past that I think people that continue to leave early should be forced to backfill the next time they queue up. I could dig though my post history and find them but you know what, this problem keeps getting worse and I’m to a breaking point of annoyance with it. I just want it addressed.
I don’t think this will discourage those that leave during overtime though. Two games last night I backfilled into were instant defeats before I could even select a hero.
This is exactly why there needs to be a stronger deterrent to leaving. Everyone in the queue deserves a good game as much as you do. People dumping games that don’t live up to their personal standards is a real problem.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; along with keeping the current xp penalty, forcing players who consistently leave matches to be the first to be in the backfill queue is probably the most fair way to solve this. If they create backfill, then they are the first to fill it.
Some people only play QP. I can perfectly understand why people would dislike leavers in most modes.
Again, someone only seeing it from one point of view and never from the backfill point of view.
I get frustrated joining games that end within 30 seconds or less. I bought the game to play full matches, not a few seconds worth.
It’s really bad in arcade mode mystery heroes where for starters you get no lose or endorsements for leaving. In this mode people leave at the slightest sign that their team isn’t going to win. You can hardly play 1 game without at least 1-2 people leaving.
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