I would rather people be able to leave than troll my game for the next 10 minutes. People won’t leave since they don’t want the penalty to queueing so they just emote and do nothing so we end up losing due to being down teammates.
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So instead of a leaver penalty they get reported for match sabotage and have actual actions taken on their account….
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No, keep it. It was almost impossible to get a match without someone ragequitting before Leaver Penalty. And back then people could just ruin the match by leaving with zero consequences.
Now it’s a few matches that has leavers, fewer still has throwers. At least throwers can get reported, and I’ve seen plenty of notifications of actions after reporting them. I’ve also seen throwers stop throwing after being called out about it in chat, so guessing those people didn’t want to get reported.
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oh a blizzard ban. how awful… (sarcastically).
They will just make another account somehow, right off rip.
Im of the opinion that i’d rather they just move on. The only time blizzard should be super strict and really go for the gold is when the match dwindles down to the last 1:30 of it or the Overtime clock is ticking. (So long as it does not proceed for more than 4 minutes OT).
I say at that point if they leave in those important time-windows. Slap on a pretty nasty penalty. TWICE in a 1 day period (with a reset at 7am). Its time for a nice little 30 minute lock out.
QP isn’t a serious affair. Sorry. its just not. But the mode can be made a little more pleasant at least, when we can allow the Cry-baby pee-pants players to just up and leave. So we get someone there that is actualy moving around.
Not some person that sits there soiling their diaper being a keyboard warrior in chat. moving 6 inches to avoid AFK penalties, all the while they rage in chat about some stupid comp they think everyone should play, because their favorite “influencer” 
on youtube says so. And nobody on the team will swap. So they rage about it being a lost cause…
IDK. I come from the TF2 era where you played payload maps and capture point maps. It was never the same people playing from the time you started the match to when you ended it.
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Blizzard doesn’t get you for gameplay sabotage if you do it right. Playing poorly is not a bannable offense (speaking from experience) so go nuts
The timeout from leaving is easy to skirt around if you don’t leave many games.
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That guy’s match is still ruined, and so are all the others that are affected by this in the meantime
The major issue with the penalties is that they are WAAAAY too harsh for just how abysmal the rate of decent matches is in QP. You routinely bump into the 10-minute time-out even if you only quit the worst joke matchups where one team can’t get a single elim
People can’t be expected to care about the theoretical future punishment that might maybe happen more than the immediate one they KNOW will happen if they click quit now, its not how humans work
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Too harsh? I don’t think they’re harsh enough 
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Except you can’t get reported or banned for quickplay. Since the mode is, ya know not to be taken seriously. Trust me. I’ve tried reporting AFKers trollers etc over and over and nothing happens. Do the same in comp and bam instant bans.
Ive trolled in qp, thrown legit, zero penalties. Its a fun mode, you’re not meant to “play serious.” Hence why there is no rewards for winning or losing.
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The best way for Blizz to deal with leavers is to isolate them into a leavers-only queue that groups them only with other leavers and no one else. While in the leavers queue, they cannot participate in Comp nor group with anyone else besides other leaver players. To return to normal queues, they must complete X-number of games in a row, where X starts at one game, then doubles each time they leave any game. So after the 4th game deserted, they must complete 8 full games in the leavers-only queue to return to normal game play. This system effectively separates leavers from non-leavers so that everyone can still play as they want, and leavers completely stop impacting non-leavers.
If the leaver queues have insufficient players to launch a game, then leaver players are granted a 1-game credit after 1 hour of waiting in the leaver queue. This prevents them from being stuck in permanent leaver-limbo should they be unable to match with other leavers for any reason.
That’s incorrect – doing anything that violates the game’s EULA can be reported, even if the punishment does not arrive until later. I still remember one guy who had a total QP melt down and started spamming racist texts and f-bombs. I ran into him the next game, but he could not say a single word after being chat banned almost immediately after his first episode.
Account bans really don’t mean anything since new accounts are free, but those that are loaded with event or premium skins are a different story.
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Remember its ok to troll games as much as you want and just say its just qp but youre not allowed to leave if theyre ruining the game for you!
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No. It is perfect right now. People that troll are reported anyway.
Oh I don’t really report cause most of my games are usually fine…but the few times that I have I’ve gotten notifications that people were actioned…maybe you just didn’t do it in my games
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dont remove them…make them harsher
You fr? People will leave no matter what.
Of course that’s not what they’re doing. They don’t do anything so obvious (usually). They just drop their situational awareness, relax their aim, don’t wait around to group up but trickle in just to get mobbed, and so on. You can’t tell the difference between someone soft throwing and someone just having an off game.
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So don’t worry about it then
So the question here is, do leaver penalties increase this sort of behavior? The answer is yes, at least to some degree.
So the next question is, does the increase in this behavior degrade match quality as much as leavers (that the penalties are trying to prevent)? That’s harder to answer. We’d have to have some way of tracking overall match quality. I think threads like these are partly born from people noticing a decline in quality, but admittedly it’s all very vague.
Counter offer: remove leaving from qp games.
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The hypocrisy is hilarious. They will die on that hill, though.
Fun for me, none for thee.
Ignore people like Baja on the forums. They are no-life forumers who just sit here to argue. Curate your interactions 
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