Posting this here because I think it will get more attention than if I posted it in the competitive section.
This post is about the SR gain bugs regarding leavers. I’ll start off by explaining a game I had a few weeks ago. One guy on my team left. I was planning on playing til the end of the game anyway, but when the 2 minutes were over and the notification said we could leave without a penalty, the rest of my team left (they were a 4 stack). I was left alone and I could not be bothered to wait out an entire game by myself. I left as well.
The next game I played, I won. I played really well if I do say so myself. Definitely better than I usually do in terms of stats, which is weird because I only gained 2SR. I complained on the forums and people were saying “Maybe you played badly compared to other Moira players”, but thing is I usually play worse than I did that game and win around 24SR. Clearly it wasn’t me that was the problem. I did some Googling and turns out loads of people have had this problem. If you leave a game even when the notification says you can leave without a penalty, your SR gain in the next game you play will be TINY.
My problem is that people who have to suffer from people in their team leaving are punished MORE than the people actually leaving. I have “left” two games this season, both times involuntarily. The first time was about a month ago and my computer blue screened. The last time was around 22 hours ago when the servers crashed as Blizzard was adding Competitive 6v6. Both times I lost 50SR immediately, but I immediately noticed how the SR gains/losses were broken in the next few games I played. Every time I won I got a HUGE amount of SR, even if I played like sh*t. I’d be getting 30-32SR per win which is not normal for me, and 18-20SR for a loss for probably 5-7 games after the leave.
I don’t understand if this is a bug or if this is intentional. It’s clear that for some reason the system is not punishing people who leave enough; in fact, it is rewarding them with better SR gains and losses. There are players who genuinely leave games not because of internet but because they like to troll or can’t handle losing, and despite this they are potentially being REWARDED with more SR! I hope this is just something that is happening to me because that is just broken.