Yesterday and today I have been grinding QP with my friend to help them complete their season pass. Yesterday was fine. However, playing this morning before the new season starts has been miserable. We played about 5 games and 4 of them involved 6 or more players refusing to play the game. Most people are essentially AFK’ing for xp. When I insist on trying to play the game and fighting the enemy team, I get targeted by the whole enemy team because they think I’m being the fun police. Naturally my team refuses to help me because they also see me as the problem. If I choose to leave these matches and find a better lobby, I get punished for leaving those games. The game is impossible to play when other people refuse to play it. I do all I can to report them for gamethrowing, but everyone knows that it rarely has any effect.
Blizzard, please make some sort of statement about this behavior where these players are holding the lobby hostage. Please take more action against these kinds of “players” or non-players, because it is beyond infuriating when you encounter it multiple times in a single day. I can lose 10 games in a day and I’ll keep playing, but when multiple lobbies are held hostage by these people who refuse to play the game I cannot stand it.