backfill is just a hassle as it currently stands, most of how it goes these days is you get placed on a losing team with seconds left and a comp that is a staple of quick play the oh so often 4dps 1 unlucky support and tank (mainly roadhog) and how it goes most of the time is if you pick another support the original player think “finally i can stop being support and hearing people halfway across the map requesting healing” or as a tank its like “finally i can stop being bullied or payload driver and play something else” and honestly when its backfill and i want to practice my dps i feel scummy if i pick them up with a team of 3 dps already. i would rather join a new match or have the people who leave the match get placed back in there than getting the same end game last push feel off f this, overall its a waste of time and exp just for everyone to leave or to be reinstanced with the same people who played the 4 dps.
I propose that there need to be a option to toggle it off
Nope games without backfill would result in the majority of games dying 2 mins in.
At least, they could punish the leavers by forcing them to backfill a game whenever it’s ready till they backfilled the same amount.
if the game dies then what happens is when people leave they have a exp penalty and if enough people leave the game is reinstanced as a new one with whats left over from another game and this filters out the people who actually want to play the game as a team over people who just want to play for themself
There is one, very simple way to turn off backfill…
You click “Play”, then click “Competitive” (or if there is a mini-season going, click “Arcade”, then “mini-Competitive Season”).
exp penalty does little to stop leavers. So games would be dead very often. And good team players are willing to sub in when there is a empty spot.
the exp penalty has a effect that varies durring events that penalty can be a big factor
I mean thats pretty much comp now…
Comp has a much better penalty to reduce comp leavers.
Yet theres so many of them, at least 1/4 games.
For me it is more like 1/10.
Literally it goes like this, leaver…troll/thrower…dps only…toxic… and in between you get a good game or two, im plat so it sucks 
Sorry that is your experience. For me Leavers are very uncommon and when they do its usually connection issues and they return.
Trolls/throwers/leavers is just a symptom of not having guilds.
Turning it off would be a bad idea.
the same could be said to you that is just your experience i am talking about this in a general experience
I already turned it off.
Leaving/avoiding every single game i got backfilled for five months now, and despise some issues i had with balance and matchmaking, i rage less often now.
How to do? The sounds it’s the first thing, you can hear people shooting/dying, and sometimes the alarm that rings when your team are about to lose. With this it’s possible to quit before even of the hero selection. It’s nearly automatic for me now.
There was a bug that disabled backfill on the PTR once. EVERY game snowballed from 1 leaver into reinstance in minutes. If people had to do that for 2 years Qp would die.
its ptr most people only go to try out changes and leave thats not the live game and it was a bug not a system put in place with actual thought put in place. that point is flawed yet i can see why you would have concerns about it
That is correct. There is a system put in place with actual thought put in place. Its called backfill.
yet back fill is flawed. all you get is 300 exp as compensation and what ever you can scrape of at the end on a losing game. and you also have to consider human thought process into this as well if some one joined backfill on a losing team they might think " there is a reason why they left on a losing game meaning the team they got placed into is frustrating to play with " meaning they joined a losing game got 300 exp and then leave to find a new one, over the other possibility of getting a game that you could gain more exp with