Long time player, first time poster. I have been playing OW since release, have purchased four copies of the game on PS4, Xbox, and 2 PC accounts. I am currently living at college and thus, my internet is out of my hands. I was just playing a comp game and my internet went out twice in a row. Because of this, I was unable to rejoin the game, lost 50sr and have been suspended from competitive play. Is there really no way to differentiate between leavers and people DCing? I understand an angry toxic individual could manually remove their internet connection, but as a person with level 4 endorsements, no reports, and a generally positive response to being on someone’s team, I’m not sure why I’m being penalized for something out of my control.
The devs don’t want to create a decent comp system, and want to make their game seem artificially good. Removing people who disconnect for any reason leaves only the people who play the entire match, and it makes everything seem nice
To answer the question.
No there is no way to tell the difference.
Everyone who DC’s is treated the same regardless of your accounts history for fairness.
You playing with inconsistant internet is entirely on you.
Was it Blizzards fault? If not. -SR
I understand what you’re saying, but this has never once happened previously. If I was in a position where I had access to my router I would agree with you, however, I do not. My ability to access the internet is entirely dependent upon my university and the accessibility it entails.
That’s not an excuse though…
You have the option of well…not playing comp. You KNOW your internet connectivity is unstable but you choose to play anyway. You accept the risk if you play with unstable net.
I get that its not in your control, but it doesn’t really matter.
There’s no useful way to do that. If they differentiate between the two, then everyone who wants to leave intentionally disconnects instead, which completely defeats the purpose of differentiating.
Perhaps more importantly, the impact is the same either way. If you leave a Competitive match, disconnect or not, you most likely just single-handedly wrecked a game for 11 people (5 of whom will lose because of it). If that’s something you expect to happen frequently, then Competitive is the wrong place to be.
This was definitely a one-off scenario, but my friend in the game i was DC’d from informed me my team actually won the 5v6 so my strife lies only in the punishment I received. I have come to realize the inability to differentiate between toxic DC’s and accidental. Thanks for your input!
There is, but it could be exploited by people purposely disconnecting their internet.
So does that mean there isn’t P=
To OP
I thought you could rejoin the game but there’s zero incentive to do so as you will always lose 50 SR.
This must’ve happened quite a numbers of times, or do you only get two DCs a season?
Missed that point.
You only get a comp ban if you have DC’d multiple times throughout multiple seasons.
Unless he means a season ban, which again doesn’t happen until you have way more than 2 DC’s.
Leaving games also counts.
So you have either left lots of games or DC’d lots. Which is it?
this is the first instance of my internet deactivating. It has never happened previously and most likely won’t happen again.
OP is suggesting that this was a one off and that his internet is normally stable so I guess that rules all of that out.
Seems like you should be able to rejoin the game to avoid risk of ban. If you lose the game you lose 50 SR as you were prob the main cause. If you win, no SR but no loss either SR
You can make a hotspot on your phone and finish the match with your mobile data. If data consumption bothers you just turn on limit client/server send data in the settings, that way a whole hour of gameplay uses about 70-80 MB.
I took it as he knows his internet is unstable at college (or at least out of his hands as he puts it) so he knows something is up with the internet.
I get the rejoin thing, it seems odd that they punish you if you rejoin (as long as you do it quick, even 1min is too long though)
I’ve talked about this before…
you seem like a nice person so i’m sorry you’re going through this
your negativity doesn’t help the situation nor the morale
could you go into detail about what your recommendations are on creating a decent comp system?
That’s fair enough then.
Yeh it’s a bit of a shame. Why they couldn’t make it so you have a reason to rejoin… I get the point of punishing people harshly that leave cos of how badly it effects the other players, but making it so no there’s no reason to return punishes the other players just as badly.
Also, while I don’t believe the game is dead, I dunno if such aggressive measures are required this late in the games life cycle (what with the relative abundance of games these days). Sure, there’s definitely going to those that people will say “Good riddance” but I pushing people away that otherwise are good members of the community… =\
The moment you queue for competitive you are stating that your hardware, connection, and etc are in proper working order.
You were perfectly aware that you are using a connection that was unreliable.
No one forcedyou to queue. If your connection is unreliable and you choose to risk your sr along with the sr of others it is your fault.
The excuse of “no control” is just that.
Your suspension is deserved and warranted.
Maybe don’t play comp if your internet is potato. Is it so hard to understand you just boned 5 people?