I wanted to know if the way I’m thinking has any mutual agreements or similar ideas. I wanted to know if there would ever be a way for overwatch to tell if someone left a comp match on purpose or on accident, meaning someone lost connection to just the match or lost wifi. I know it sucks when you get someone who repeatedly leaves because they lost wifi (it sucks because you could lose etc I know,) but to get suspended for a certain amount of time because you didn’t rejoin the match before the countdown sucks. I would not play on purpose knowing id lose connection every single few minutes, which I don’t; but, just an hour ago or so I lost wifi and not only that I got suspended and lost a lot of sr. I know its don since it’s comp and leaving is punishable, I just wish there was a way to tell the difference. You can’t really stop yourself from losing connection once in a while.
There probably is a way, but then people could just unplug their PC instead of hitting the quit button to fake a disconnect. The punishment is specifically in place because otherwise people would game the system to avoid punishment. I know it sucks and it doesn’t feel fair, but your absence affects the match outcome negatively, and there needs to be consequences for everyone who D/Cs as a result.
The game actually does know when someone hits the leave game button or hits Alt+F4, but unfortunately, Overwatch, like all online games, can’t tell when a player has a legitimate disconnection or deliberately unplugs their wifi or ethernet cable.
Yeah and I completely understand
Understand that the starting penalty is actually relatively light (at only a -50 SR deduction which has no bigger impact to the hidden MMR than a normal loss, and a 15 minute suspension). Its only when players don’t take time to fix the problem is when the suspensions can ramp up very quickly.
There is no perfect solutions to handling the problems with players who leave deliberately, players who disconnect unintentionally, and the player who are impacted by leavers in their games. It’s actually a balance of deciding what is best for everyone and what encourages everyone to keep playing but be responsible for when they play ranked game modes. Each game does it differently of course, and I honestly think Overwatch is about as balanced as it can be when it comes to this particular issue.
There’s some stuff you can do, but not a lot. It’s really hard to tell the difference between a faulty network card vs someone yanking the cable, a faulty router losing power vs a router being unplugged, an ISP having trouble with their switches/infra or it being the fault of how you set it up, the game crashing vs someone killing the process etc
Networking is hard
I used to have similar problems. It took 5 calls to my ISP, and 3 visits to my house for them to fix the problem, but in the long run it was worth it.
You are paying money for internet access. That internet access should be reliable. If it’s not reliable, you should complain to your ISP until they fix it and give you reliable internet access. It’s their job to fix it. It’s your job to tell them they need to fix it.
If you want to play comp:
- hard-wire to your router (ethernet cable)
- don’t queue if your internet is ‘spotty’ (lagging, high ping, etc)
- understand if you ‘drop’ you (almost certainly) cause your team to lose (sr)
As for this:
In 5 years my Internet has dropped twice (both due to outages). If you’re with a cheaper provider, do the above tips and take the occasional punishment (because your team damn-well did because of you)… 
Your little “()” sentence sounds like you’re mad lol
Nah because I know leavers are rare in comp and impact both sides fairly equally.
It’s more just people that moan about losing SR when they knowing broke the rules of comp and then complain about it…
Oh okay I see. If I may ask what rank are you placed in. Literally its the opposite for me though, I have teammates who will plane out leave for absolutely no reason. Last season I was so close to reaching diamond but someone would leave every 2/3 matches I got into
It really shouldn’t matter. The threshold for getting a season ban is too high. It doesn’t matter if it on purpose or just your bad internet. It should be limited to maybe 2 or 3 leaves before getting a season ban. Having bad internet is not an excuse because if you do have internet issues you shouldn’t be playing comp and ruining other people’s experience.
are we playing the same game? I get at least 3 or 4 leaver games a night.
I’m not even saying my internet goes down all the time. That’s not my point. The point I was trying to say is that I wish there was a way to tell if it was internet connection or just someone leaving on purpose. My internet isn’t bad, it literally just went down completely and it got me thinking.
Personal experience with leavers is highly subjective based on a lot of factors:
- your rank
- your hero choice/s (meta, non-meta)
- are you toxic/non-toxic
- are you solo/duo/stacked
- I could go on…