Because i think if the game can you should get a harder penalty if you leaving through the menu. If you leave through the menu you should get a time out penalty in length of all the searching time of the other 11players plus the normal penalty.
If you lost connection it stays the same because you always able to pull you cable out but some people use wireless and cant do this.
The other question is… why is there a leave game button in ranked?
Back in the days of OG Starcraft, salty players would just pull cat5 cable from their pc when defeat was imminent. Their record would have a disc (disconnect) instead of an L.
And today we can’t even see most people’s profile, let alone their win-loss ratio.
You can. It would be fairly easy for them to determine the difference, in fact. However, one reason they may not give harsher penalties is that they don’t want people to simply start DC’ing instead. All things considered it’s not that difficult to simulate a DC even just by killing the process in task manager, or disabling the network connection which can be done pretty easily from the system settings.
Because sometimes people do in fact have to leave suddenly when things happen in the real world. Most people who play games today are not jobless teens after school in their parent’s basements.
I have a wireless router and I can just flip a switch on it and disconnect my router from every device in my house.
You could also turn the wifi off on your device and that would make you “lose connection”.
But to answer your questions: No, the game cannot detect if you lose connection or leave via the menu. There is a “leave game” button because ya know…people have personal lives and might need to leave?
I cant tell how many times i played online games with friends like Monopoly or Risk and after 2 hours or so someone have to leave because he have other things to do.
Really are you kidding me by wasting my time? Would you do the same if we play those games in real life? If you know you gonna play some games who take some time then you have to finish them.
I’m unsure how old you are, but for a lot of people, sometimes things come up pretty suddenly in life that need taken care of. Someone can start a game with the full expectation of finishing it, but some times the real world happens and you have to stop.
Yes, if something more important comes up than what I’m doing I’m gonna stop doing it real life or online
no, you dont, there is absolutely no contractual obligation no gun to my head if i wanted i could leave every single game i play halfway through if i wanted theres nothing forcing me to stay and attitudes like yours dont make me want to stay more it makes me want to stay less
People would work around harsher penalties by force closing Overwatch (Alt+F4) or by unplugging the router or computer. This is why the penalty stays small on the first offense but quickly ramps up with additional leaver violations. They keep the Leave Button there (but with a severe warning displayed), because sometimes players will leave if the match has become too abusive to handle. Even I have left on extremely rare occasions because I felt I was being abused in both chat channels and even in gameplay sabotage, knowing fully well the match was unsalvageable and that my well being is more important than that one match.
In the end this is just a video game, and while there is a very fair expectation that all players should try their best in competitive modes, we all should be able to still have fun playing each match.