It is NOT fair that a leaver is not replaced

General Discussion
21

Well if its time based the distance isn’t important.

22

I leave the game after the 2 min also. There is no point in playing when you are 5 and they 6 and it was a good match. If they where bad ok but otherwise…

23

It would be worse if I, as someone who wasn’t even part of your initial game, got brought in and then got a defeat and lost SR because of it. It wouldn’t be fair. And no one wants to be brought into a comp game half-way through progress.

24

This. And if you keep the backfillers safe from losing or gaining SR, they’d possibly just throw the game for fun.

25

Then the game should just cancel the match and make the original leaver lose SR. Simple.

26

The problem with that is you could take the SR loss for your losing team.

27

Then the team could bully the Symmetra main their least favorite teammate into leaving and taking the penalty for them. If you think toxicity is bad now, imagine how much worse it would be if it could keep your SR from falling.

28

I would hate to be put into a competitive game as back fill.

29

And now they can’t ?

30

Not simple. Every match would have a leaver and no one would ever gain SR. There would be teams with dedicated leavers just to save the other five points. It would be an absolute mess.

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31

Right now, they can bully someone into leaving but it doesn’t actually help them—they still get a loss. If they want to avoid losing SR, their best option is to buckle down and try to eke out a win somehow, not to abuse a teammate until they decide to leave this awful match.

32

I would absolutely hate to be backfilled into a Competitive match, where my team is probably already demoralized, and I only get to play half a game. If I queue for Competitive, I want to play a full match.

33

Then just cancel the match or decrease the SR gain/loss. It’d be more fair than forcing people to play an uneven game, thus demoralizing them even more.

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34

Make it so that if they leave, the only game they can play is that same Comp match until the Comp match has ended. That way it disincentivises serial leavers somewhat.

36

It would NOT be fair if backfills happened in comp. Don’t you love it when you join a match of QP/Arcade and lose before you even load in? Do you want the joy of that happening, but now with the added benefit of losing SR when it happens?

37

Ban for the whole season on the first leave/disconnect. Harsh, but the only real way to deter leavers and people with bad connections/PCs.

38

That introduces other problems. What if somebody from the losing team leaves seconds before the match ends? His whole team will not have their SR adjusted for a match that they lost fair and square.

39

I learned that the hard way.

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40

Well Blizz servers aren’t always reliable. Last season I got dropped during placements and it was my only lose for the placement. To get banned for that wouldn’t be fair.

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41

it’s worse when they leave because of a hero pick or in-fighting, or just being toxic. usually before the match even begins in my case. my SR is suffering with how common it’s gotten…