Quality of open MM plummeted since the introduction of ranked

[Lacerto]

Have any of you felt like your random games have been horrible since ranked matches became a thing?

I feel like it used to be one out of every six or seven matches where you had trolls, griefers, toxic punks, ragequitters, etc. Now every other match is riddled with the worst human beings I've ever played a game with. I don't know if it's a streak of bad luck, confirmation bias, or what. Am I alone in this or are others experiencing it too?

[Sanzokun]

the overall team "quality" and attitude towards the game is def better in ranked but in my experience standard games have had leavers since forever >.< on that note the timer before the rest can leave without penalty is way too long. Knock on wood, but only encountered 1 full on troll in my 150+ hours

[SharkPlush]

Originally posted by Condition Red:

Have any of you felt like your random games have been horrible since ranked matches became a thing?

I feel like it used to be one out of every six or seven matches where you had trolls, griefers, toxic punks, ragequitters, etc. Now every other match is riddled with the worst human beings I've ever played a game with. I don't know if it's a streak of bad luck, confirmation bias, or what. Am I alone in this or are others experiencing it too?

yep, most games someone's trash talking, often if we do win the other team just leaves, every single game there's pause spamming

[SharkPlush]

It's almost shocking how fast the playerbase changed.

[Null Winter]

Something to consider: People with comms bans are locked out of Ranked; with Ranked closed to them, the verbally abusive trolls and similarly minded folks are forced to queue up in the general matchmaking to instead cause misery there. You're playing the only mode they have access to outside of the testing sandbox (and only people who actually care to learn use it), so you're going to see more of them there.

[Haethei]

i havent noticed many poor actors in my games. out of my previous ~10 games that i can remember at all, there was a single guy who left and a single guy who was moderately toxic. however, the skill differences are massive sometimes.

its really miserable to be stuck in a game that is going very poorly because you cant surrender in this game and you lost because the enemy team is way better than your team (including yourself). even a game where you are getting stomped will usually last at least 25 minutes of time wasted

[David]

No surrender, game ends quickly if you are actually losing. Introducing surrender encourage toxic behavior to make people vote yes.

[Chrono Atog]

Originally posted by David:

No surrender, game ends quickly if you are actually losing. Introducing surrender encourage toxic behavior to make people vote yes.

also teaches people to not try to recover just surrender.

[Lacerto]

Originally posted by David:

No surrender, game ends quickly if you are actually losing. Introducing surrender encourage toxic behavior to make people vote yes.

The surrender option at least affords the team a choice. Generally, it's better to give the player more options, not less.

[SchleifLinG]

nah bro we all know in LoL they are SMASHING this freaking button. I had so manny comebacks with that button never exsist.

[Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame]

Originally posted by David:

No surrender, game ends quickly if you are actually losing. Introducing surrender encourage toxic behavior to make people vote yes.

Let the team decide if they want to surrender or not.

[Sham!]

Originally posted by baddie feeder:

It's almost shocking how fast the playerbase changed.

It's the same playerbase, minus people that were just testing the waters and checking out the new valve game

You are stuck with actual moba players now, probably until release where a second wave of curious players will come and then leave again