Overwatch the game of leavers

[Comixfan-6222]

@Jaydogg-1643

Blizzard do you have any plans to fix the rate of leavers? On console 1 in for games last night had leavers. Today 1 in every 3.
Why should we be punished for other people leaving?
Do you have any plans to fix this?

The solution to the leaver problem already exists in other game modes - backfill.

Competitive needs backfill

Having a competitive mode without anything in place to help a team recover from a leaver/disconnect is an absolute travesty. Blizzard needs to add backfill to competitive. If someone leaves or disconnects from a match, then someone else can load in to take their place. Have a “reserves bench” system in place for if the disconnected player reconnects (thus allowing for them to avoid the leaver penalty) and give them the option to rejoin the match at the start of a new map. Make competitive ba…

All Blizzard need do is add it to Competitive with a few changes (such as making it opt-in) and it’d solve the leaver problem once and for all.

@Jaydogg-1643

Increasing the penalty for leavers would help deter people from quitting during a comp game.
Atm the penalty for leaving is a joke.

Not everyone who leaves does so intentionally.

It’s already unfair that people who leave unintentionally get punished at all, let alone making the penalty more severe.