For those of you who are happy about the leaver penalties, why arent you playing ranked?? Are you scared?
People who have bad connections or who have kids or disabilities, aren’t allowed to play video games anymore, because you refuse to play ranked?
Very selfish people! Can’t believe blizzard is listening to them.
We had no penalties (except XP) for years, and it didn’t hurt the game. Now the QP quality is crap because so many are just throwing instead of leaving.
I never left games, but I was glad when others did. It mostly made the game quality better.
Now these QP-Joes have convinced themselves that they lost because of leavers, and they ruin it for everyone because they want QP = ranked.
And btw this 5 second wait to leave is just a ridiculous idea, forcing us all to wait even longer for our backfill.
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Because a leaver in comp is a guaranteed lose.
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The leaver penalties were put in place because some matches were like revolving doors.
Real life obligations are fine to leave for, but sadly there are those who leave at the drop of a hat.
If they die once, teammate picks the wrong hero, first point is lost, enemy plays the wrong hero, got backfilled in, match is taking too long because teams are too even in skill.
All the ones listed could cause 10 leavers or more in a single match, in a single team even.
It was super disruptive.
If snowflakes that did this weren’t so keen on leaving, we wouldn’t have leaver penalties like this.
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If you leave 1-2 games becasue you need to … you can and it´s still ok but leaving every 2nd or 3rd game … just no. maybe not the game for that person rather play PVE already. Also QP / Ranked there is no difference other than QP takes 20 seconds to start which is why everyone is playing it. Also there is no difference in “rewards vs gameplay” so why bother, why turn on mic and mute music etc … it´s simple more relaxing and that´s why people pick QP over rated … I played rated in all games before but as I seek more fun in games I just enjoy QP these days … no stres and even more fun and tbh it´s even harder! … so it´s this simple
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For you maybe, not for the people fighting 4V5…
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There were far fewer leavers in OW1. Going free to play caused a very noticeable increase in the amount of leavers. And that’s why we are here.
I’d be all for removing the penalties if people actually stopped leaving at an unacceptable rate. But unfortunately, some people have decided that they can leave for any reason. Someone picks a hero you don’t like, leave. You lost a team fight, leave. Oops, you got one shot, leave. Oh no it’s push, leave.
None of those are actually a good reason to leave. But people aren’t only leaving for the good reasons like family issues or an Internet outage.
There’s only 3 solutions here.
- We do what Blizzard is doing and just keep increasing penalties.
- We put habitual leavers into their own queue. I doubt the leavers would actually like this better than option 1 because their games would basically become unplayable. I’d be fine with that.
- Somehow convince millions of leavers to become decent people who actually finish their games. This will never happen.
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Peeps shouldn’t play any sort if competitive game if your mental is so fragile that you cannot accept a loss. For the sake of other players.
It matters where it is in the game and how ahead you are but if you are in a game lobby of higher rank a person down is a death sentence even more so in 5v5. It is probably best to quit once the timer is reached to save time and gg go next. Wasting time on the game with a leaver will just waste time you could be using to win another game in the long run.
I have yet to see a team win a comp game without a tank or an extra player.
You seem to not understand how harsh the punishments are.
If you want to punish people who are leaving every 2nd and 3rd game, thats fine. But that’s not what they’re doing.
You can literally only leave 3 out of 20 games! That’s 15% btw.
Do you not see how extreme that is?? And next season, you’ll get punished after leaving more than ONE game.
You guys think that you’re losing because of leavers, but trust me that’s rarely the case. I’ve watched you guys’s “evidence”, and you people are just way too optimistic of how it’s going in the game.
And look at all the replies btw, no one is actually explaining why they won’t let ranked be for serious games, and let QP have leavers (in moderation of course) and backfill.
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Strange leaver obsessions. No one’s got a gun to anyone’s head. Stay, or leave when you want, but deal with the outcome, and shut up.
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If you are so upset about QP matchmaking that you leave, why don’t you go play ranked? Are you scared? Ranked has more balanced matches and tighter MM. What are you afraid of?
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There were far fewer leavers in OW1. Going free to play caused a very noticeable increase in the amount of leavers. And that’s why we are here.
There were far more leavers in OW1, it’s just that they happened at the start of the game.
Instead of punishing people for it though, they figured out why people left and they fixed it.
The only place that has lots of leavers in OW2 is bronze MMR. And I kind of doubt you’re in bronze, since you bothered to go on the forums.
I’d be all for removing the penalties if people actually stopped leaving at an unacceptable rate. But unfortunately, some people have decided that they can leave for any reason.
Then why punish people for leaving 3 out of 20 games? That’s crazy harsh!
Last night our whole lobby was kicked out of the game, then we all received a 15 min suspension (even though we could still chat with each other). And that happened TWICE!
We put habitual leavers into their own queue. I doubt the leavers would actually like this better than option 1 because their games would basically become unplayable. I’d be fine with that.
That would make the queue time way too long. But it would be a good idea to separate them in another way: Give them a higher and higher punishment, the longer they keep at it.
And to be clear:
I’m not denying that leavers have ruined the match for me now and then. But it’s much more common that they help by leaving, so I’m ok with it. Of course, we would always get backfill within a few seconds (before this idiotic 5 second wait).
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Leavers are okay in moderation, that’s why backfill exists.
It becomes a problem when people leave 1/4 of their games or more. Or when the first backfill leaves and the second and the third, the fourth and then the rest of the team.
I enjoy casual play, but i actually want to play full games with a team that doesn’t bail the moment they die once or lose the first point.
I never leave. Didn’t you read what I said? I want other people to leave.
And btw I play ranked far more than QP.
So stop deflecting the question: Why don’t you just play ranked?
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Depends on what you count as hurting the game. If you count like 9/10 games having quitters, then oh yes the lack of penalties did.
These leavers are ridiculous, just don’t queue for a game if you’re going to leave halfway through
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But I only knew I was going to leave once I died and we started losing!
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You all claim this happens all the time, but I’ve not experienced it more than once every three weeks. In years of playing.
Post replay codes for me pls. Just generate the code and screenshot your replay history, so I know you’re telling the truth. Because I don’t believe you.
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