Want to reduce Leavers? Here's how:

General Discussion
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If someone gets disconnected from a match, for whatever reason.

Make it so that if they Rejoin the game:

  • Win or Draw, they get 0SR. No SR gained or lost.
  • Lose or don’t Rejoin, they get -50SR.

This wouldn’t fix all the leaver situations, but the vast majority would have a teammate that rejoins, has something to fight for, and will do their best to win.

Currently there’s zero incentive to rejoin if your internet connection glitches out. It’s an automatic -50SR, even if you instantly rejoin, and win.

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With Blizzard’s extremely fragile server connections with one ping-spike being a roulette to see whether or not you get to stay in the game, I’d have to object.

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I seem to recall them saying that they cant detect if the leave is intentional or not.

Meaning they cant detect if it’s a internet connection issue or just toxic players.

If the latter then yes.
If the former, then they’ll anger up the playerbase even more…

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This is an improvement from the status quo.

Currently if you get disconnected for even 10 seconds and rejoin, it’s an automatic -50SR, regardless of what you do.

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Why would the distinction matter?

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Because you’ll be handing out penalties to those who may not even deserve it. That’s how some will perceive it, i guess.

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That’s what they do now.

Currently if you get disconnected for even 10 seconds and rejoin, it’s an automatic -50SR, regardless of what you do.

With what I’m proposing, this -50SR would be cancelled if you win.

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True. I didnt even think about that…

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I do think the punishment should be taken away.
I know that I love it when people rejoin, even though they are still losign even if we win :confused:

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Well, this is kind of a middle ground.

You won’t gain SR for winning.
But you won’t lose -50SR for winning.

This prevents it from being abused.

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I would rather have it on a time-based system, if that makes sense.
maybe -3 SR per minute from the total change of SR, -50 SR if no reconnect

Just me throwing up numbers, not really sure how SR works for leavers lol

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I have literally NEVER been disconnected from Overwatch.

Edit: Apparently I was not clear enough. My point is, Blizzard’s servers are not to blame if you are frequently disconnected.

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Why not just have 5 SR for winning?
And then you just lose how ever much SR you would have lost to begin with?

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This just in!
This ONE person has never been disconnected, so that means nobody ever has!
hurrah!’

no.
stop.

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It happened to me a couple times a week when I had a modem/router with a Puma 6 Intel Chipset.

A Netgear C6300 to be specific.

I have since upgraded.

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Their internet bugs they drop connection but rejoin, mvps the game. 0 SR. 0/10 worst idea.

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You do realize currently the same thing happens, but it’s -50SR. Right?

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Ummmm no? Since when? I haven’t received a negative sr when my internet died but I rejoined and won? Since when?

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You always lose 50 sr when you leave a match for any reason.
it’s always been that way.

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Since always.

For me,
It got pretty frustrating to lose 100SR after 2 random disconnects, back to back.

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