A suspension here, 50 SR less there. That’s great and all, but it doesn’t do anything about the other 5 players.
Had a leaver end of a round and the rest of the game was 5 v 6. We were holding our own well to force another round. The struggle was real because even with a player advantage, the other team had to resort to bunker comp with Mei + Bastion cheese to barely get a win.
What does my team get for that effort? SR drop. Why? How is that fair? When a team has a leaver, their SR shouldn’t be adjusted - PERIOD. Being down a player isn’t exactly what I call skill rating.
I agree with your sentiment. SR shouldn’t drop for the team with the leaver. People have tried coming up with these excuses where “Oh, but someone could be bullied to quit as a tactical way to preserve SR”, but completely ignore how nobody can actually force someone against their will to quit and that this behavior is a reportable/bannable offense. We really need others to wake up and demand leniency for the teams with leavers.
I can live with leavers. They’re an inconvenience, more than anything, and really the losses they cause my team tends to even out with the losses they cause the other team too, so whatever.
Me, i’d be happy if the SR outcome of a match made any comprehensible sense at all. It usually just feels like the game rolls dice within a spectrum of 10-30 points and whatever it lands on is what you get or lose, with no relation at all to performance.
I can think of nothing more fun than queuing up for competitive and getting sucked into a lost game full of salty-as-hell people and watching my SR crater because of a dude pulling his plug.
Leavers aren’t a problem. I can promise you that leavers don’t even make up 10% of the average players game. And that goes for BOTH teams.
And here’s the thing, it happens to everyone which means there is nothing unfair about it. The leaver gets banned and penalized, that’s the only action necessary.
They’re an annoyance. This is a different thing from a problem. A person leaving a game is just one of those things where you roll your eyes, say “ugh!” and wait for the timer to go down.
It is effectively the same as having that guy who thinks Winston can and should dive the bastion bunker - except I get way fewer leavers than monkey martyrs. And i can get out of a leaver game within a guaranteed 2 minutes, where I could end up playing 4 whole dang rounds with this idiot ape.
They may not be a problem on PC, but they are most assuredly a problem on consoles where smurf accounts are free to make thus no real consequences for getting a leaver penalty/suspension on an account.
Anyone saying leavers are not a problem might need to play more RECENT games, because i’m starting to see a leaver every few games. It wasn’t always like this, but recently it’s been much worse. Maybe people are just waiting for 222, not sure.
I know it’s not perfect, but i think the Leaver and his party should be punished, but the other players should get off with a “draw” because really, the game is invalid. The game wasn’t played, with all the players, to it’s conclusion.
They could do more things to minimize leavers, like maybe a 100 SR loss. Maybe a full day ban. I know it’s tough on the leaver, especially if it’s an accidental DC, but… it is supposed to be competitive. Not “mom called, dinner’s ready, sorry” play. Or “we lost point A so i quit” play.
