The emergent behavior from such a thing is that you get people who will temporarily sacrifice accounts to save a group from losing, or you get extreme bullying/bartering to get people to leave games to “save” the ranks of the rest of the team.
It’s unfortunate, but the loss needs to be tracked even in the case of a leaver. The only real path there are things to discourage leaving, encourage returning, and more social features like clans/squads which comes with other social benefits like reduced overall toxicity.
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you should always be getting a priority q after a backfill? i am getting one every time… you don’t?
and those iirc are never backfills can’t say for sure
I hadn’t thought of a bullying aspect but you’re right. Why don’t they have clans? Call them Watches or something.
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RIGHT!?
Especially given how many people came from the WoW team, and how many social benefits you get from having people be part of known circles is huge. Joining a clan makes it easier to find people to play with, has some level of accountability – you won’t want to flame clanmates or risk getting kicked because you make the clan look bad.
I really wish they’d have expanded on LFG to make it a proper clan system instead of dropping it entirely.
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imagine a game where there is built-in functions to kick you from playing the game.
Not only that but clans could also overtime become professional competitive teams. Imagine you have a clan of 50 people with the top 5 per role being your pro team and the next top 5 being your backup. There would be less gatekeeping at the pro level as players wouldn’t be forced into a specific team and could rather create their own, via a clan.
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If you got this many backfills in a row it means you left every single time you got backfilled
Nope, i stayed for at least 3 of them as I had no choice, they were over before I even selected a hero.
Could go the Dota 2 way.
You get put in a pool where you have to play x amount of games to get out of it. Think of it like the sin bin. But it only kicks in after a threshold like 5-6. That way if you do have a dc surge you’re not penalised by being put in toxic hell.
I do think the reward for backfill should be say 200+ bonus xp or even a currency award of say 20 coins. (this is assuming blizz actually realises the current system is total bull)