Leaver penalty is kinda BS

[Colorfastsean]

I get it, i really do, people who leave games are scum but why not force anyone who leaves a match to be stuck until the match is over even if there spot go filled? I have starlink internet and the only place i can put it has a small % of obstructions.
Overwatch has 0 chill if you dc for even 1 seconds and kicks you from the game. This happens once ever 40 min? sometimes even less but not by much so people like me are going to be forced to wait the time even if we want to rejoin the match.

TLDR: Overwatch is like your x-girlfriend the moment you dont give her 100% attention 100% of the time its with-holds something you truly love.

[Basarab Laiota]

i dont notice a difference

[Mikozo]

Well more people frequently leave matches now after the penalty change

[Devilish Dave]

I'd rather they leave, than stand around doing nothing but giving you this false idea someone has that angle covered.

[THAT Guy]

Originally posted by Devilish Dave:

I'd rather they leave, than stand around doing nothing but giving you this false idea someone has that angle covered.

Yep I'd much prefer to leave those god awful matches where matchmaking expects me to either attempt to hard carry a casual stack against a sweat stack, or get weighed down by them.

But now I get punished for that, so In those matches I refuse to carry..

It's hilarious how mad people get over this, acusing me of throwing. Lol

I'm not throwing, I'm just playing to carry my weight, no one else's.. so as long as everyone is capable of carrying their weight or someone else is willing to compensate for the ones who can't, that match is entirely winnable..

So the only ones actually "throwing" in that context are the players who cant carry their weight..

Players who get mad about this are projecting their anger over being bad. :/

It's sad considering most bad players are bad due to bad habits and ignorance.. and rely solely on mechanical skill and brute force to win, which doesn't get you very far.

[Knowsome]

i dont wanna be that guy, but playing games using satellite internet? its like playing using your mobile 4G plan, its expected for you to have hiccups.

if overwatch is kicking you out of the games it means you are having huge windows of packet loss where you are missing maybe 15 packets in a row.


do a ping on "cmd" see how consistent your internet is, cause no online game will keep players if you have like 20%-30% packet loss, specially continuous packet loss.

[Shae]

Leaver penalty doesn't belong in unranked matches to begin with, it's not competitive so it is their worst change yet. I'd rather a player leave and find a new game without getting punished so I can get a backfill from someone who actually wants to play and won't throw or feed the enemy team.

[Banafrit™]

Not to be a ♥♥♥♥, but you're playing the game knowing your internet's not the best. That's not the game's fault at that point.

[Womensbane]

Originally posted by Colorfastsean:

I get it, i really do, people who leave games are scum but why not force anyone who leaves a match to be stuck until the match is over even if there spot go filled? I have starlink internet and the only place i can put it has a small % of obstructions.
Overwatch has 0 chill if you dc for even 1 seconds and kicks you from the game. This happens once ever 40 min? sometimes even less but not by much so people like me are going to be forced to wait the time even if we want to rejoin the match.

TLDR: Overwatch is like your x-girlfriend the moment you dont give her 100% attention 100% of the time its with-holds something you truly love.

It literally makes no sense in qp, why would you punish people for leaving unranked??????

[Silverlight]

I do love how a game with so many connection issues has rules like this.

[Womensbane]

Originally posted by Shaelent:

Leaver penalty doesn't belong in unranked matches to begin with, it's not competitive so it is their worst change yet. I'd rather a player leave and find a new game without getting punished so I can get a backfill from someone who actually wants to play and won't throw or feed the enemy team.

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[『Menacing Pyro』]

TF2: feel free to leave. its casual mode, who cares? just dont leave in comp or MvM mann up mode, because that actually matters

OVERHYPED 2 Overwatch 2: leave or be idle for more than 0.0001 miliseconds and we will eradicate your rank and punish you severely

[THAT Guy]

It's literally blizzard failing to fix a problem that only exists, due to a larger problem they refuse to address..

Why do players leave matches? Most commonly due to this games pathetic excuse for a matchmaking system...

Instead of addressing the issues within matchmaking thats ultimately causing driving players to leave matches... they chose to put a bandaid on a problem it created.

It's for this very reason, the punishment does very little to stop leavers, but will definitely negitively impact everyone with time, and ultimate foster even more "toxicity" in the playerbase.. while doing nothing that actually benefits the game or playerbase in any form..

[『Menacing Pyro』]

Originally posted by THAT Guy:

It's literally blizzard failing to fix a problem that only exists, due to a larger problem they refuse to address..

Why do players leave matches? Most commonly due to this games pathetic excuse for a matchmaking system...

Instead of addressing the issues within matchmaking thats ultimately causing driving players to leave matches... they chose to put a bandaid on a problem it created.

It's for this very reason, the punishment does very little to stop leavers, but will definitely negitively impact everyone with time, and ultimate foster even more "toxicity" in the playerbase.. while doing nothing that actually benefits the game or playerbase in any form..

im guessin' they'll only fix it when playercounts dwindle as people come to their senses to go play other games or something

[Nimbus]

Hate to be that guy, but if you're dcing that much, that's more of an issue with your set up. Biggest tip I've got is avoiding comp til you get things figured out.

[Shae]

Originally posted by beast.of.the.dark.flame:

Hate to be that guy, but if you're dcing that much, that's more of an issue with your set up. Biggest tip I've got is avoiding comp til you get things figured out.

OP is talking about QP, not comp.