Most of my matches this week have been backfills into losses. I ask again, why the heck do we need them? If the match is going so bad one side or the other, and players leave; why subject someone to it? Obviously there is a reason these people are leaving; Your quality of games is GARBAGE!!!
Anyhoo; would it honestly affect the game so much if we took out backfills?
if you play wiht less players it’s a loss
you are just complaining about the matches a few seconds to end and not the ones won after being backfilled
backfills are either: predetermined loss and I can see the reason why the person before me left. this is 90% of the time.
or
I’m getting into a low rank lobby, become the server admin, I turn the game around and get called a cheater. Happens rarely, but it happens.
In both cases it’s unfair for me or the other players
backfill doesn’t work in 5v5.
In 6v6 it wasn’t ideal either but manageable. In this format, you get thrown into random lobbies because they prioritze fast backfill over match quality.
I look at it like this.
No matter how much we reduce the amount of leavers there will always still be some. Would I rather backfill ocasionally or play 4v5 ocasionally? The lesser evil on a group level is definitely having backfills. I’d argue, on an individual level, the first is still better too.