Why is my team penalized for rage quitters?

More often then not; I’ll find that our team is a little rough in the beginning (figuring out who plays what, etc) but once we figure it out we start making progress. HOWEVER, there’s always the person who leaves the game within the first push if it doesn’t go as planned, and that’s overwatch! You can’t win every team fight. Yet I’ve had so many people leave within the first few minutes when we definitely could had won, yet I get penalized because someone doesn’t want to put in the effort to turn a game around or fix what’s wrong. I understand Blizzard can’t just have no penalty for leavers, but I believe they should take a new approach.

Because people are bad at reasoning. They’ll just say people will buy extra accounts and leave games all the time to help their friends. Which means if only leavers got penalty, Blizzard would sell more games, earn more money, have happier players, and more active players, and profit greatly.

Of course it also means people who don’t buy multiple accounts are left to randomness if they get a leaver saving them from lost SR or not. Which would be terrible, as nobody wants the matchmaking and game experience to feel like it is random, right?

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