… not letting them join another match until the match they left has finished. No measures other than that needed.
This way people who have real issues can deal with them without harsh repercussions and the rest who simply leave because a match is not going how they want will have to take a short time out. Just as an incentive to finish the match instead of leaving.
Edit: I have no qualms with people leaving during the teambuilding part since leaving during that time has no negative effects. So the penalty shouldn’t take effect if someone leaves during that time (just the way it currently works).
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There shouldn’t be any penalty for leaving during the hero pick screen. Why waste time of my precious life playing garbage all dps comps? I want to practice realistic scenarios.
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There isn’t a penalty for leaving on the select screen before the match starts. This has been numerous times.
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I think even better than that would be a simple system of putting people who consistently leave as priority for backfill games. This would both help with the backfill problem, because joining games 3/4 of the way through can be a frustrating experience, and help discourage people from leaving which creates less backfill to begin with.
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Blizzard lost tons of players every day who cannot reach level 25 to jump in to competitive, most of my friends quit OW before reaching level 15 because how unplayable is QP.
Bronze people vs TOP 500
Six stack vs solo queue
6 dps vs 2-2-2 OWL perfect team
People joining-leaving for 3 minutes forcing a team to stay with 1 or 2 players left until the match is done.
I mean you actually have to play a week torturing yourself every day for unlock the real OW experience?.
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I can agree with that. A lot of leavers occur after the select time though. It’s always golden when someone gets tilted because supp X didn’t pocket him/her and then leaves.
Are you sure? Maybe it’s just in competitive that you’re penalized.
Quickplay is a casual environment so it’s very possible someone enters a game, has any sort of reason to leave, but doesn’t want to quit playing the game for minutes at a time. Maybe there was just one toxic teammate that you couldn’t stand; maybe you were getting severely harassed. Leaving that game shouldn’t mean you’re denied playing the game until that match ends, which could be upwards to 15 minutes depending on how that game proceeds.
The current system is fine. If you leave too much too often, then you get an exp penalty. Backfills are usually pretty quick and they get a nice exp bonus for coming in. I don’t see a reason to really make the punishments here any harder, sometimes people want to or have to leave a game.
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I agree. Once everyone is committed to the game, they should finish it out.
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At the moment in QP even finding a backfill takes time, had a game where we had to wait quite a long time and it left us 4v6. I’m currently waiting 5min+ for a game and then if people leave it ruins the game for that team because there’s the prob you’ll not get a backfill before the game ends. Looking forward to getting to 25 so I can try out comp play.
Leavers in QP are justifiable. Don’t punish players in the least serious game mode there is.
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I have a different idea. Let people opt out of backfill. BUT, if you leave a match, you automatically have backfill turned on for your next 5-10 matches
There’s not really any excuse for that now though, since LFG is a thing
By real OW experience you mean
toxic arguments
six stack vs solo queue
smurfs claiming to be top 500
racism and sexism over voice chat
Throwing matches for fun
Comp isn’t worth it.
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At least people gets banned in competitive for throwing or being toxic
At least you have healers and tanks
At least the Matchmaking doesn’t put Bronce-Plats-Golds vs GM/Top 500 on a quad stack.
At least in competitive people plays to win and doesn’t stay afk in base spamming emotes.
Look man I’m not gonna argue about this, all I’m gonna say is that both modes are terrible.
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girl… people come and go in QP all the time. it’s not that big of a deal. leavers instantly get replaced.
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Usually it’s just cause i gotta use the restroom, maybe my food timer went off, someone took the hero i plan on practicing, or maybe it’s time to go to work.
I play quickplay to avoid the harsh punishments of Comp, and i leave so another can fill my spot asap rather than sitting there afk for 2 minutes.
I don’t often rage quit, but when i do, i generally go play a dif game or watch TV. I don’t like playing when i’m in a bad mood.
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Leaver penalties should start with the first leave. Just a minute where you cant join another match. Increase the number 30secs for every leave in 24 hours or so.
Its always bad for the team.and 1 min isnt long but you maybe think twice if its worth leaving a match.
If the team tries, I stay, if the team just play 6 dps and everyone is roaming, I have no hesitation and leave the game and I shouldn’t be punished for that imo.
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