During their maintenance yesterday I left a game to take a call. Since I knew I had 2 penalties in the last 20 games (I track it so I don’t get >2 mins) I should have got a penalty but didn’t. It made me wonder if penalties were disabled.
Next game was against sombra+ana. Left it as soon as I got hacked just to see if I would get a penalty. Nope! Played a couple of games then was against sombra+ana again. Left. This went on for a good 2 hours I would guess. I even started leaving games as soon as I heard sombra tp out of their spawn.
It became quite addictive. Sombra, leave, sombra, leave, and then I thought, why even bother against an Ana focusing me and going through the sleep->nade->die cycle over and over. I started leaving if I got naded too often and the game just wasn’t fun, or against other obnoxious comps like ana+mei or mei+symm.
The point is, WE NEED PENALTIES. Without them it’s way too easy to just leave for the most trivial reason. Any hero you don’t like, any counter to the hero you want to play, anything. It’s too tempting, especially on tank where you have 20s queues. Why play a 5 min game when you can be in a new game in 20s?
Up to now I’ve only left maybe 10-15 games in the last few months, some of those for RL reasons, since I started playing. 20 at the outside. Last night I left way more than that in 1 night!
I had my fun. It felt a it dirty. And now back to being a good little boy and not leaving without good reason (is sombra a good reason? Hmm).
