Leavers in comp

Competitive Discussion
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And post #277736688337 is still, a terrible idea. lol

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It’s a very good thing you’re not an Overwatch dev!

My hardware is stable. My connection is stable. But when it comes to things like a power blackout, neither of those things matter.

Leaver bans do not need to be made as ridiculously severe as you are wanting, especially when you consider the leaver problem could be solved completely if Blizzard would finally add backfill to Competitive.

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the vast majority will not accept backfil in comp.

in other news a fun new development. after pushing the payload on durado all the way with 3 minutes left, we stomped on defense so hard, the enemy had a leaver. so they all left and guess what, the match canceled and i just got denied SR for what would most likely have been a win.

and guess what, in 10 minutes that leaver will be back to playing comp, if he isnt already qued up on an alt account. yay

edit: at 2 games in a row. im gonna say… 20-25% of my games.

so glad blizz allows multiple accounts and has such light penalties for leaving.

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That is merely your assumption.

I’m with you that multiple accounts should not be allowed.

But leaver penalties cannot be more severe than they already are (as they increase with frequency of leaving) because not everyone that leaves a match does so intentionally and it’s not always a simple matter of having stable hardware and stable Internet.

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this has been discussed for years. as far back as i have played which is like season 3. it has never been a popular idea, going so far as players in the past have even tried to get it removed from QP.

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this has been discussed for years. as far back as i have played which is like launch. it has always been a popular idea, going so far as players in the past have even tried to get it added to other game modes.

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then where is the grand push for it. nowhere because everytime it gets brought up it gets shouted down by the masses. even bastion had a 7 page mega thread.

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I’ve seen lots of talk about backfill in Competitive but I’ve yet to see these masses you speak of shouting them all down.

Even in this thread the only thing being shouted down is you and your revenge-fuelled desire to see all leavers severely punished for their supposed crimes against you.

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well dude then start your “lets have backfill in comp” mega thread and see how far you get.

should be pretty easy for you to get going and get a positive dev response based on how your talking. that is, unless your totally full of it.

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Or I could just completely ignore you and your toxic snarkiness.

You keep on raging against those evil, evil leavers. They’re clearly doing it intentionally just to upset you.

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and yet your still here being petty because you know you are full of it. will your low key narcissism burn so bad you have to reply. thats my question.

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This is literally you. Keep playing that junior high lunch king card til it wears out, amirite? We got ourselves a keyboard badass! HOOOOOO BOIIIIIII

You arent right just by refusing to consider any perspective but your own and saying ‘talk last, you wont!’

This is the mindset of a weak minded child pounding on their keyboard because its the only way they get the attention missing from their real life

Internet cliches arent a substitute for a personality, bad faith arguments dont make you sound intelligent.

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you know what alt+f4 is right?

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did you know that if you leave the game 5-7 times you will be banned from the season? I did that ( at the start of the game to not ruin everyones game)

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No thanks. Myself and I am sure many others don’t play comp mode for currency. Backfill would need to offer NO SR loss but can gain SR. Then you should be flagged that you were just in a backfill and won’t be again your next match or 2.

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and then when people start picking memes when they fill, what then. with the devs “but they were playing torb to the best of there ability” even though they are a mcree main. they cant be punished, they cant lose SR, and the fastest way to get into a winnable game is for the one they backfilled into end. its a poop show and they are coming into what is most likely a snowball with an ult disadvantage.

we have to to think, what are the players backfilling incentivized to do. with no SR loss and the odds being against winning, the best course of action for the player is to get the match over quickly, which would mean playing a hero you are terrible at.

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By the time you load in, pick a hero, and get to the fight, that one minute left is now 10 seconds. No thanks.

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What about a different criteria like having at least one extra round left to go in the match, or even just increasing the minimum time to be 2-3 minutes left in the match?

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There is NO incentive to backfilling if you can lose SR. What do you have trouble understanding? People pretty much play comp to rank not for currency. Start picking memes? You really are reaching hard. What’s stopping from people doing that now?

Like I said, you get placed as backfill then you shouldn’t lose any SR. It is fair to you to get plopped in a match where you team is getting is getting owned to lose in seconds or within a couple of mins to lose SR and then have to re-queue again for 10+ mins hoping you don’t get backfilled again.

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oh my bad your right, everyone will be like “backfill with 2 minutes left? im going to try my very hardest, and who cares if my mains stats take a hit.”

no, they are going to come in upset that they waited in que for what will most likely be a loss, knowing that there is a good chance the group was the reason for the leaver, and that its just not worth their time to care.

im not reaching, the player is most incentivized to choose a hero they are bad at and get the match over quickly, not stressing and tilting over dragging out a loss, and this is BECAUSE they cant lose SR in the scenario.