there’s nothing that blizzard can do about this from their pov you disconnected which could mean you turned off your pc or your modem or power went out all of these look the same to blizzard you just stopped sending them packets simple as that
again they can’t do anything about it and if they implement some code that’ll tell them what happened on your end it’ll be somewhat intrusive or very intrusive and trust me it’ll get hacked and abused until they remove it again
it’s like saying i want to participate in a formula 1 race but i keep losing because i brought a sedan and they’re not giving me anything because i lost!
i know you can’t actually participate in a formula 1 race with a sedan
None of that is Blizzard’s fault. None of that is your team mates fault. If you have unreliable internet, dont play competitive. If its just a freak disconnect that almost never happens, 50 SR is easy to regain if you’re at an SR you deserve to be at.
Never said it was. However, them knowing that this is going to happen, they have no excuse to not add an algorithm that would compensate for those who DC’d and the players who are down a man of the circumstances are right.
Never said it was their fault
So basically I can’t play the most fundamental part of the game because my internet goes out just like any other ISP?
That is literally impossible. If a connection is cut, versus just being shut down intentionally, there is no information about what happened sent to the receiving end. It’s impossible for it to tell if your ISP went down, you pulled out the ethernet cable, shut off your wifi, unplugged your router, closed your firewall, or anything else happened.
Control is not the same as responsibility. You’re responsible for your connection. DCing is unfortunate, but it’s still your responsibility to supply an internet connection in order to play Overwatch, and failure to do so will disrupt the gameplay experience of your team, and as such, there is a penalty to discourage people with heavy connection issues to continue playing until they are resolved.
As someone that has lost about 500 sr last season ( and gained a sweet season ban for it as well ) because of literally split second dcs, I know how you feel. But there’s literally no way to tell if you pulled the plug or if it was your connection simply not working. The simple solution is call your provider if you’re not sure about your connection, make sure everything works and only then, play the game. It sucks, but we can’t change it. It’s not Blizzards fault and as much as we want them to be able to do something about the “unfair” 50 sr loss, we can’t.
Sometimes this “unjustified” lost SR hits me as well.
Heck, my very first comp match is when the game decides to throw the “Failed to connect to server” error to me and made my game stuck in the loading screen forever until I forcefully quit (and no my internet is stable). I got auto suspended from that.
It doesnt matter, you ruined a match for 5 other people. Blizzard has no way of knowing if you intentionally shut off your internet or didnt.
The punishment has to be the same for everyone.
If you get disconnected from the match then yes you will. Personally I think they should give a seasonal ban on the first disconnect and if it happens 3 more times, a competitive ban.
By leaving you are ruining the experience of 5 others. It doesnt matter if you meant it or not, the 5 other people do not know that and frankly do not care.
If there was no penalty it would be so easy to abuse leaving a match if it was clear you were going to lose.
Maybe give ideas as to another solution to this you think could work.
Right now, this is the best option they have and frankly, its too lenient.
I don’t care if your mom just died or your internet went out. You left a match and the reason is irrelevant. You will get punished the same as everyone else because there is no way to know if it was intentional or not.
First, there is no such thing, and even if there was, doing that would take resources from other parts of the game. It would literally be a waste of time.
If you belong higher, that 50 SR isnt a problem in the first place.
