I was watching POTG and my internet is not great so I lost internet and got disconnected. I then get a warning that I am about to get penalized for leaving the game after I already finished the game and was watching POTG. WHAT? I have horrible internet, but I shouldn’t be penalized for my shoddy internet especially when I played the whole game out and it DCed at the end when I already lost/won the match.
thats wierd i usually always leave before the play of the game comes up, maybe you disconnected right before the game was over?
I guess but how can I watch the POTG and be in the middle of it and then get the notice? It is just a weird thing that happens a lot to me.
It’s certainly a bit strange, but the game does sometimes take a minute or so to actually boot you out if you lose connection. Considering the play is just a recording of what happened, it would probably be unnoticeable if you got disconnected right before or as the match ended since I don’t think anything funky would happen visually at that point.
Basically, something weird had to have happened because you’re free to leave as soon as the game is over without penalty
It might be possible that your Internet cut out before the match ended, and the notice only told you once your Internet reconnected during POTG.
Still, if it’s truly happening quite a lot, then I’d seriously consider looking into your Internet connection sometime soon, especially if you have any plans to jump into competitive mode anytime soon (where you can get your account actioned for leaving games even if it’s cos of shoddy Internet or otherwise not your fault).
I thought it may be that after reading it, but it just happened again where I was literally chatting in real time with the team during POTG and then got disconnect during endorsements. To be penalized. Its like any internet disconnect causes penalization and its dumb. BUT I’m pretty sure Overwatch will do nothing about this issue. Just wanted to know if others are having this issue T^T
Wait…what? I leave after “victory/defeat” screen in 80% of my games…never noticed any penalty…
Just ignore it. It is another bug that Blizzard is too lazy to fix. If you legit leave some QP games and are close to getting a leaver penalty, the game will keep giving you that message even though you are leaving after the game is over, or during the hero selection before the time runs down when you don’t get penalized for leaving. I get those messages all the time and ignore them and am never hit with a leaver penalty.