Translation: I play a game I think is bad.
Translation: Leaving games relaxes me.
Not wrong. It’s more favorable than the other games I’ve played/can afford, so yes I will continue to play it (for now).
Wrong. Leaving games that are stressful relaxes me. Oh and, not stressful as in challenging, but stressful as in other players making me stressed out in matters I cannot control.
That stress would be greatly alleviated with rewards, so much so that I wouldn’t leave a match even if it was a complete stomp with throwers on my team. Right now, I have no reason to play the game other than pure enjoyment of the gameplay which does not last long enough for me to stay in a match with grandmasters try-hards playing meta picks like their lives depend on it.
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For anyone who can’t understand or won’t I’ll give an example:
You are a young kid who wants to swim so you get your floaties on and get in. Then big brother and sister jump in and start throwing you and dunking you. You can’t swim well and just want to enjoy it but even though you fight as hard as you can you start crying and they don’t stop.
This is the experience of bad matchmaking that makes matches unbalanced. You want to play but it’s so bad that you can’t so you are either mad that the experience is bad or you are mad because the only relief is to stop doing the one thing you want to do. It’s simple. Blizzard needs to fix their sh!t.
But we could also choose to go in the pool next to it where the big kids aren’t allowed. Only kids around my size can get in. It’s fairly even fights. This is ranked. Big kids are allowed in the other pool if they come with a younger, smaller kid.
Except bullies live in all ages and not all kids have the same skill stats so what happens when you go into the other pool and they start splashing and dunking you? That is ranked. It doesn’t matter the mode. The problem is you either go in and tell the rowdy kids to settle down or…wait for it…make one pool for the rowdy ones and another for the chill ones. That’s called matchmaking. What we have is an abomination.
This is the main problem with this game: ppl don’t like how it is but keeps playing it.
Nah. When you lose you’re probably saying to yourself “so unbalanced, they are so much better, bye, I’m leaving”.
If you find these heavily unbalanced matches 5 times out of 20, it’s not the matches, it’s you. I brushed stuff like that off as “well, it’s QP, it’s probably unbalanced”, because I never really played QP, but now that I did for over 50 games… yeah, it’s you. QP match making seems fine to me.
OW always didnt want people to leave games often, that is why there was the leaver peanlty. They didnt want you to leave, and gave you a penalty for leaving.
Except, that penalty did nothing, like you said, you took it and when on.
So they just changed the penalty so it actually did something.
People abused the system resulting in harsher penalties.
QP mode isn’t competitive. There is a literal competitive gamemode, stop punishing players in QP for wanting to play casually. QP is just comp now with even more unbalance.
“I want to play but the game just angers me” (your first sentence basically)
Am I the only one confused by this statement? Cause any game that angers me is usually a game I don’t bother playing
the joke is at least in comp we know that the matchmaking is better as there are rank restrictions in groups and matching within a certain SR but in qp we can have a bronze solo queuer being matched against a gm stack which is a joke of a matchmaking system the best part you cannot leave the unbalance match.
they are trying to make qp into a mini comp mode but not putting in the effort to make the matchmaking better.
The game is bad, you will generally find people saying the leaver is the problem.
Yet for ‘Checks watch’ 7 years, you could leave QP without any temp bans, just xp penalty.
Also, if you ignore every other game pretty much allowing leavers out of their casual matches, it’s just odd that people here will blame leavers instead of a game that is bad.
Like somehow, leavers - who have no control of how the game is created to played. Someone who has no control over their match making (other than leaving the game they disliked) are the problem? Not the people creating and controlling how the game operates?
IN all honesty, the game needs to die out. People need to leave the game at this point, let the whales waste their time on nothing but ‘collaborations’ because creativity from the devs to the players is dead.
I mean even before matchmakers people quit. In gears of war we would have enough people we needed 1 random to fill a spot in a lobby… you gotta mic… yep… are you a quitter… nope… first death proceeds to quit. Find another random… rinse and repeat until we got a gamer. Gamer doesnt mean good. In fact most the time they werent.
Is the matchmaker perfect… no. Are quitters going to find any excuse to leave, of course. And in a game where something as simple as cooldown usage can lead to a domino effect even if the matchmaker was perfect, stomps would happen either over a match or a number of teamfights. Thats overwatch and a ton of people have convinced themselves its elves out to get them and quitting is the option when they need to play other games.
Have you ever tried to convert that negative energy into punishing enemies that stomp you all the time? I tried 5 years ago, now I am the stomper. My advice!
That’s the issue. Queue for ranked for tighter matchmaking and if you lose you get put into easier lobbies. I am hard stuck gold at the moment and the idea of someone being better than me at this rank is as unfathomable. Occasionally there will be a Smurf, but it is relatively rare and honestly they are not that difficult to deal with as these low ranked games are obscenely random. Usually these types of players thrive in more controlled environments. If you embrace the chaos, I find that it usually works. Unless the Smurf is playing a low skill floor hero such as Soldier. That guy wrecked me pretty hard… I regret forcing him off Widow. 
I digress, just enjoy the game and chill. It will put you against bots and you can have a lot of fun farming them and making gameplays that are old school machinima worthy.
I’ve been playing Aliens: Dark Descent. Pretty fun. 
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Oh, and it cost half the price of a skin in OW2.
This is good advice. There’s no need to stay and suffer if you really can’t stand it. You could get the leaver penalty, but that’s a good reminder to take a break and calm down.
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i wish more people saw ranked as a balanced experience, and not like a ladder…
because, why else arent you queing comp? the entire point of comp is that everyone in the lobby is of similar skill. you say you leave unfair games, so, wouldnt you be less incentivised to leave a balanced comp game?
I think its because of the fear of letting down the other players in Comp… Were quick play was suppose to be casual and there was no pressure to get gud.
Quickplay is never chill on tank, but it can be on other roles.