I quit my team very rarely. I would say I’ve left it less than 10 times over the years I’ve played the game. The main reason has been players who are clearly not playing the game, but simply “f’n around” like trucing. Then regardless of which side I am I will leave the game since the quality of it is infinitely worse than the regular lopsided QP games in general.
Now, having said that I find it somewhat distasteful that I am placed as a backfiller to games which are about to end in less than a minute to defeat due to a loser whose ego is so massive that he couldn’t handle the upcoming defeat and quit it before letting the time run out.
Why am I being “penalised” for his stupidity and placed into such trash game as a filler? In the worst case I cannot even endorse the players. It’s almost worthless for me to join such games.
Suggestion: Make it so that when a player quits the team then he will be used as the primary filler for the next 2 days. It would mean that if he queues to any game then the first 2 minutes would be the backfiller time. If no such game is found then place the guy to the regular queue. This would encourage the players to stay in the game until the end.
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actually would be a good idea if implemented right, every time you leave you get some sort of mark or point so as to be more of a backfiller for some other game
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It’s crazy how bad the backfilling System is. If you join a friends game and spectate, when it ends it literally places you in the already finished game and it’s very glitchy and you get zero xp.
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I was writing about this so many times - don´t backfill players in less than 30 seconds to the end. It makes no sense, you could not even pick a hero and leave spawn, it´s just annoying…
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I guess it works fine as long as the game population is stable or increasing.
If not, you have to handle waiting time VS balanced teams/good user expereience.
On my side, IDK about filling a gap.
Blizz are not going to discourage the already dwindling playerbase by penalizing them for leaving QP matches.
If you thought about it for 5 seconds before posting this you could’ve saved yourself some time. 
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YES.
Get rid of this stupid “required backfill directly into defeat screen” as first game of the day and then every hour or so
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i dont see why it would be a bad idea
even something as simple as 1 early quit = 1 backfill (until you stay for the end) would probably be beneficial
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If we could do this for comp too, like if you leave a game, for your next game you’re backfilled into a game with a leaver.
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you’re just gonna get more people staying in spawn imo….no point in forcing people to stay in a game they no longer want to try in
It sounds fair to me. People causing backfill get to backfill themselves.
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Quitters need to be put into backfill queues.
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If it is competitive. I don’t quit. If it is QP Arcade. If the match is really obvious that it is TOXIC and a loss. Just … gonnna… walk away.
Dont be mad at the players. Blizzard KNOWS why folks up and LEAVE a match. They aren’t fixing it. Penalties do NOTHING for folks other than it infuriates them into throwing or just not playing. 
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
They just just BUFF the backfill rewards.
I honestly wouldn’t mind a backfill “defeat” screen I’d it didn’t feel like wasted time.
Give either people:
- A whole lootbox (event lootbox if one is active
- An entire level, the extra current exp given is laughable
- priority passes
- comp points
- A LOT of ingame currency
I love when people respond without actually responding to what was said.
You say it’s fair and it probably is but as I said (which you ignored) Blizz are not going to discourage the already dwindling playerbase by penalizing them for leaving QP matches. 
That’s my feeling. If someone wants to leave and you try to stop them, they’re just gonna throw to end the game faster. Don’t even have to make it so blatant as to afk in spawn 
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Good idea, but the better idea is to not play qp at all, cause this game is meant to compete or you’ll have issues with it.
Then they would be griefers instead, that stay AFK in spawn, instead of playing different game.
And how do you prove the guy didn’t leave because he also had the “just QP” crowd who just do whatever. I literally got backfilled into game that had Lucio wallride behind enemy team, emote and “hello” all the time. No wonder the someone left. So you’re saying they should be put in a “shame queue”? I too hate people who use “just QP” as an excuse to not even try but then you want to punish people for leaving games you yourself said you’d leave?
And how do you prove they quit just because “you guys are so bad. GG, have fun losing” and not because their support walks out of the spawn and off the map? Why not go after the people that make the game unfun instead of those who don’t want to play it? Yes, it is QP, but just because there’s no imaginary rank points to gain, doesn’t mean you can just see how deep the well on Illios is the whole game (unless you’re running a full 6-man team who’s full on board with that).