Your game crashed and your policy cost me hard work

[Federal-1319]

I have good hardware and no bad history of leaving games. I was kicked from a game without doing anything wrong, then I was not allowed to rejoin for unknown reasons. I received a ban and a loss of SR for my trouble.

Seriously. This is messed up and you know it.

[Nicole-1893]

Leaving a game hurts your teammates’ experience. More info on why penalties are applied can be found in the sticky threads:

Overwatch Technical Issues, SR Loss, and Leaver Penalties

Hey everybody, I wanted to take some time today to discuss Leaver Penalties and how they relate to Technical issues. We understand that leaver penalties are an annoying thing to experience. Technical issues can be complicated to troubleshoot. To add penalties to your account can seem like adding insult to injury. This isn’t our intent. The competitive penalty system may not be perfect, but there is reason behind it. When we created the leaver penalty system, we took in a lot of player feedbac…

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